As previously mentioned, Happy Lunar New Year! As you may know, the Chinese zodiac is an important part of Chinese culture. Although both the Western and Chinese zodiac are 12-part cycles, the Chinese zodiac is based on your year of birth rather than your month. Each year is associated with an animal, which is believed to heavily influence your personality, fortune, who you are compatible with, etc. It's such an important phenomenon that people oftentimes ask for your zodiac sign rather than your age.
This year's sign is the rabbit, which belongs to those of you born between February 1987 and January 1988. According to Wikipedia, your characteristics are: "gracious, good friend, kind, sensitive, soft-spoken, amiable, elegant, reserved, cautious, artistic, thorough, tender, self-assured, shy, astute, compassionate, lucky, flexible. Can be moody, detached, superficial, self-indulgent, opportunistic, stubborn." To determine your zodiac, you can go to this site.
"Year of the rabbit? What does that mean Ningqi?"
It means clean your gun, Elmer Fudd, it's wabbit season! This year's sign is the rabbit, which belongs to those of you born between February 1987 and January 1988. According to Wikipedia, your characteristics are: "gracious, good friend, kind, sensitive, soft-spoken, amiable, elegant, reserved, cautious, artistic, thorough, tender, self-assured, shy, astute, compassionate, lucky, flexible. Can be moody, detached, superficial, self-indulgent, opportunistic, stubborn." To determine your zodiac, you can go to this site.
"Year of the rabbit? What does that mean Ningqi?"
Rabbits have sprung up all over town--mostly fake, although there have also been some people selling bunnies on the street. I've kept a rabbit log over the past week; here's an assortment in ascending order of creepiness:
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| Rabbit 1: Happy Rabbit |
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| Rabbits 2-200: Fertile Rabbits |
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| Rabbits 3-300: Diverse Rabbits (action figures not discriminated?) |
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| Rabbit 4: Intimidatingly Large Rabbit |
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| Rabbit 5.5: Jaundice Rabbit being abused by Wanna-be Rabbit |
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| Rabbit 6: Pyro-Rabbit |
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| Rabbit 7: Uncle Sam Rabbit |
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| Rabbit 8: Substance User Rabbit |
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Rabbit 9: POST-APOCALYPTIC MONSTER RABBIT |
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| Families and balloon-vendors at the city's South Gate on New Years Day |
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| Qin Shihuang's soldiers... patrolling the Bell Tower? |
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| 大雁塔：Big Goose Pagoda |
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| Traditional Shanbei performance inside the South Gate |
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| East Gate of the city walls |
May your New Year be as fruitful and prosperous as the scary bunny decorations in all of Xi'an! 新年快乐！
I love your pictures! I think they're beautiful!
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