Some cool stamping components china photos:
Satisfied Lunar New Year 2009
Image by Eustaquio Santimano
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is one of the most critical classic Chinese holidays. It is sometimes referred to as the Lunar New Year, specifically by folks outside China. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the very first lunar month (Chinese: 正月 pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year’s Eve is recognized as Chúxī. It actually means "Year-pass Eve".
Celebrated in locations with big populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is regarded a key holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as nicely as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These contain Aboriginal Taiwanese folks, Koreans, Mongolians, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, and formerly the Japanese ahead of 1873. In Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and other nations or regions with significant Han Chinese populations, Chinese New Year is also celebrated, and has, to varying degrees, become element of the classic culture of these nations. In Canada, even though Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, a lot of ethnic Chinese hold huge celebrations and Canada Post problems New Year’s themed stamps in domestic and international rates.
Despite the fact that the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, its years are usually numbered from the reign of Huangdi outside China. But at least three various years numbered 1 are now utilized by different scholars, creating the year 2008 "Chinese Year" 4706, 4705, or 4645.
The 2009 date for Chinese New Year is January 26.
Bag o’ Cash
Image by axoplasm
Chinese funds is funny for six motives.
1. Newer bills (right after about 1999) all image Chairman Mao, regardless of denomination.
two. There are bills for modest denominations (less than 1 yuan). So there are 1, 2, and 5 jiao bills. A jiao is 1/ten of a yuan. This is like printing halfpenny bills.
three. The Chinese use money for everything. I have never noticed a check, either private or cashiers (most expats get paid in money we get a transfer like direct deposit). And very extremely few locations take credit cards. In reality, I can think of only two: the Marco Polo hotel, and the Esprit shop.
4. The biggest denomination is one hundred yuan (about ). Combine this with #2 (above) and you get a scenario where, for instance, when you have to spend the travel agent ten,000 yuan, that indicates going to the bank, waiting in line for two hours (yes, that’s how extended it generally takes, in element due to the fact every person insists on counting these [I AM NOT Creating THIS UP] bricks of money in suitcases), filling out 4 forms and photocopying your passport, and obtaining a literal BAG OF Cash which all but has "$" stamped on the side. I especially enjoy paying our rent this way.
5. The Chinese enjoy counting income. No one particular trusts that they are getting the anticipated quantity of money. Even when it is the FREAKING BANK that is providing it to them. Every person expects you to count all 200 bills by hand. This is simply protocol. Chinese folks learn to count funds by folding it at the corner and peeling by way of it actually quickly. They discover foreigners tediously counting money making use of two hands truly hilarious.
6. The 100 yuan bill is PHYSICALLY a lot larger than the other denominations, and a lot larger than non-Chinese wallets. I had to buy a new wallet, for instance, WHICH I HATE. I like tiny skinny wallets but Chinese wallets are these gigantic pelvis busters.