Colourful Red Chinese Decoration for Chinese New Year

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Jul 082009



Thailand has a big population of Chinese people
and for the Chinese New Year festivities,
temples, houses and shops gets a colourful, mostly red, chinese decoration.
In China the colour red stands for fire, the summer and the South,
for success, fortune, courage, loyalty and honor.
During the Chinese New Year festivities red envelopes (hong bao)
been given as donations.


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Picture: Colourful Red Chinese Decoration for Chinese New Year
© Thailand Art Photography
Photographer: Anuparp Ratanakhon

If You have a closer look at the picture above,
You will recognize a Xiangqi board on the table.
Xiangqi is Chinese chess and sometimes also called elephant chess.

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Picture: Xiangqi board, Chinese chess, elephant chess
© Thailand Art Photography
Photographer: Anuparp Ratanakhon

Eine Antwort bis “Colourful Red Chinese Decoration for Chinese New Year”

  1. Sarah sagt:
    Juli 13, 2009 um 4:21 pm

    I have always wanted to learn the chinese chess but I was a student in a western school and now I only know how to play western chess.

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