Year of Plenty

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:33 am

It's near Lunar New Year, this make me recall an old story.

It is a Chinese custom to stuck red papers, which got Chinese Characters written on them around the house during the New Year festival. It is said this would bring good fortunes in the New Year.

A friend of mine, once got such a red paper with the Chinese words "常滿" on a huge rubbish bin inside his kitchen. I asked him what is that and what does the words mean, and he said "常滿" means "Year of Plenty" and if you stack it within the kitchen, you shall not be hungry though out the year.

Later another friend who know a little Chinese visit him. He had a great laugh when he saw the piece of paper on the rubbish bin. We asked him why and he explained that the piece of paper should be stick on a food storage container, but never on a rubbish bin. Since "常滿" means "Always Filled/Full".

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:07 am

Funny story there SAM.

Last year I was giving a little red envelope from my Mandarin laoshi. On the outside there were four characters that translated to "Ji Nian", and inside was a coin, or maybe two. I forgot what she told me about what it meant. I still have it somewhere around my room.

You're Chinese, correct? I'm just curious.

UnscathedFlyingObject · Fri Jan 20, 2006 6:37 am

I'm afraid

. I'm getting to that point in life where I get no more red envelopes (no I'm not getting married just older.) Wells, not that I'll receive many 'cause I live away from my parents.

Last Guardian · Post by **Last Guardian** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:00 pm

J-Manic wrote:Funny story there SAM.

You're Chinese, correct? I'm just curious.

I'm much more curious about the name of that tiny island in the South- Chinese sea tbh. Been bugging me ever since the Cat started to do his thing over here

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:58 am

I got a fortune coookie tonight that said 'you will be fortunate in everything.' I already know this can't possibly be true...

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 7:50 am

J-Manic wrote:Last year I was giving a little red envelope from my Mandarin laoshi. On the outside there were four characters that translated to "Ji Nian", and inside was a coin, or maybe two. I forgot what she told me about what it meant. I still have it somewhere around my room.

There are different kinds wording on those red envelope, so the exact words is hard to guess. BTW, not all of these envelopes are red in colour, some of them are some golden.

J-Manic wrote:You're Chinese, correct? I'm just curious.

Well, that is a difficult question to answer. You see cat don't suppose to have a nationality, do they?

Last Guardian wrote:I'm much more curious about the name of that tiny island in the South- Chinese sea tbh. Been bugging me ever since the Cat started to do his thing over here

Well since it is a nameless island, it doesn't suppose to have a name, right?

CMoon wrote:I got a fortune coookie tonight that said 'you will be fortunate in everything.' I already know this can't possibly be true...

Actually there is no such thing of fortune coookie amoung the Chinese. It's strange that you got it when you eat in a Chinese restaurant.

BYW, the wordings used in a fortune coookie use to be wordings they wrote on the red papers and stuck around the house.

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I guess another good place to stuck "常滿" is on your wallet.

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:24 am

Well, that is a difficult question to answer. You see cat don't suppose to have a nationality, do they?

Uh, sure.

The reason why I was asking is because this year is the year of the Dog, as the Chinese zodiac confirms, and my sign is the Dog. And if you are infact Chinese, I was hoping you could tell me what this year means to people over in China, who's sign is the Dog. I'm just curious.

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 9:22 am

i heard on the news that the big thing during the "year of the dog" is for chinese people to get jiggy and have more children (seriously!)

Super Laydock · Post by **Super Laydock** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 3:31 pm

SAM wrote: You see cat don't suppose to have a nationality, do they?

And here was me thinking all Cats came from Catalonia.

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Wed Jan 25, 2006 2:41 am

kung hei fat choi for u chinks

and

chuc mung nam moi for u gooks

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Sun Jan 29, 2006 4:02 am

chuc mung nam moi!

today is new years eve..lets get ready to gamble!!!

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sun Jan 29, 2006 9:29 am

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP wrote:chuc mung nam moi!

Oh, Thank you.

Super Laydock wrote:
SAM wrote: You see cat don't suppose to have a nationality, do they?
And here was me thinking all Cats came from Catalonia.

THAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE A SERCERT?!?!

How do you know that? Please doen't tell anybody else.

J-Manic wrote:The reason why I was asking is because this year is the year of the Dog, as the Chinese zodiac confirms, and my sign is the Dog. And if you are infact Chinese, I was hoping you could tell me what this year means to people over in China, who's sign is the Dog. I'm just curious.

Then you must be coming to 24 this year.