Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Chinese New Year. Top 10 Tips
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The "lucky Fu" symbol is traditionally posted on the front door on the Chinese lunar New Year. Feel free to print and post it on your door. Even if you're not into feng shui like me, I figure we can all use a little extra good luck these days. This is a celebration of change...out with the old and in with the new! It's a great time t say bye-bye to everything in our lives that isn't working and be open to embracing more joy, love and abundance.
There are lots of superstitions or do's and don'ts surrounding this holiday. Some of my friends were going crazy cleaning their homes and worrying whether to get their hair cut.
My top 10 favorite traditions include:
1) Clean your house before the new year best you can to sweep out the old and welcome fresh new energy. Store all cleaning products, brooms, vacuum etc. Take out the garbage.
2) If you practice feng shui, remove and clean all feng shui "cures" (crystals, Buddhas, wind chimes etc. before the new year. Place new cures the day after (from Feb. 4th on).
3) Decorate your house with fresh flowers, plants, fruit (especially oranges) and sweets to symbolize rebirth and sweet start to the new year.
4) Open the windows to symbolically let out the old and welcome new energy
5) On New Year's Day (Feb.3, 2011.) don't wash or cut your hair.
6) " " " " wear new or clean clothes ideally something red and NOT black or white (mourning colors).
7) " " " " don't talk about illness,death or ghosts. Try not to cry or argue.
8) " " " " don't lend or borrow money.
9) " " " " don't use knives or scissors.
10) DO greet everyone in a friendly manner. Notice who or what animals you first meet today.
The celebration goes on for 15 days. Some say, it's bad luck to buy new shoes or books during that period but some say, you make your own luck. You decide.
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The "lucky Fu" symbol is traditionally posted on the front door on the Chinese lunar New Year. Feel free to print and post it on your door. Even if you're not into feng shui like me, I figure we can all use a little extra good luck these days. This is a celebration of change...out with the old and in with the new! It's a great time t say bye-bye to everything in our lives that isn't working and be open to embracing more joy, love and abundance.
There are lots of superstitions or do's and don'ts surrounding this holiday. Some of my friends were going crazy cleaning their homes and worrying whether to get their hair cut.
My top 10 favorite traditions include:
1) Clean your house before the new year best you can to sweep out the old and welcome fresh new energy. Store all cleaning products, brooms, vacuum etc. Take out the garbage.
2) If you practice feng shui, remove and clean all feng shui "cures" (crystals, Buddhas, wind chimes etc. before the new year. Place new cures the day after (from Feb. 4th on).
3) Decorate your house with fresh flowers, plants, fruit (especially oranges) and sweets to symbolize rebirth and sweet start to the new year.
4) Open the windows to symbolically let out the old and welcome new energy
5) On New Year's Day (Feb.3, 2011.) don't wash or cut your hair.
6) " " " " wear new or clean clothes ideally something red and NOT black or white (mourning colors).
7) " " " " don't talk about illness,death or ghosts. Try not to cry or argue.
8) " " " " don't lend or borrow money.
9) " " " " don't use knives or scissors.
10) DO greet everyone in a friendly manner. Notice who or what animals you first meet today.
The celebration goes on for 15 days. Some say, it's bad luck to buy new shoes or books during that period but some say, you make your own luck. You decide.
.
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 2/2/2011 11:51 PM 
Categories: Food, Holiday, Spirituality
Tags: chinese new year 2011 Gung hai fat choy top 10 tips chinese new year feng shui tip year of rabbit
Categories: Food, Holiday, Spirituality
Tags: chinese new year 2011 Gung hai fat choy top 10 tips chinese new year feng shui tip year of rabbit
I don't practice feng shui but I did open window by your advice. ooops! Cold!....
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But fresh, yes?
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Happy New Year! Wish I'd known about cleaning my house earlier though...
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Sorry, I'll do a reminder earlier next year. Don't clean today or sweep dirt towards or out the door over the next few days.
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Not sweeping or cleaning will be the easy part for me. In that respect it's Chinese New Year's here every day.
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Open a window
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Since there's no way I'm not going to buy any books for the next fifteen days, I guess I'm doomed
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Ingrid, I agree, I can do without shoes but books?
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very good idea with the strawberrys
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