Sunday, 2 February 2014

Chinese New Year

We enjoyed Chinese New Year.   And I was particularly glad to have 2 days public holiday, especially as the weather was unseasonably warm.

This year is the year of the horse, so there are lots of horse decorations everywhere (of wildly varying levels of tastefulness).

Horse decorations at Plaza Ascot.

And at Elephants Mall at ICC.


 The big horse head is made out of hundreds of small horse figures. 



Illuminations at Royal Ascot

Oranges at Honorary Family restaurant.    Apparently the words for tangerine and orange sound like luck and wealth, respectively, and the gold color is auspicious.   Of course, Mandarins have now become the official festive orange for the whole of China, but you still see other types of citrus.
 

Decorations at the clubhouse.

On the first day of CNY we saw lots of small kids dressed in traditional clothes.  They look very cute.



Lion Dancers at the office


Video:  Lion dancers.

For good luck my colleagues give the lions red packets containing money.  Which the lions spent on luxury watches down in Elephants mall.

Video:  Lion dancers shopping at Jaeger Le Coultre

Hannah at a Lion Dance performance near Funzone in Ma On Shan


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