Last look at the CNY decorations, plants, hangings, door handle hanging, and origami rabbits

 

Decoration at a nursery school. Patterned paper folded into an origami rabbit for the year of the rabbit (zodiac sign). Decorations in black felt tip pen drawn on to show a rabbit's face by the child. They eyes are back circles with the centre of the circle left clear showing the paper. Plus three lines each side for whiskers.Rabbits like cats have whiskers the width of their bodies to ascertian whether they can get into holes and through gaps.

 Photo by Angela Lansbury.

Door handle decoration. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

The eyes on this rabbit are drawn dofferently. Two black circles filled in like discs, and a black circl around touching th bottom of the disc.an

Plant pot with plant used to hand goodwill greetings. One of the popular signs says Prosperity. Sometimes the signs are hung upside down to stop the luck falling out!

Some of the Singaporeans are very superstitious. One of my friends complained that a member of staff gave notice on the grounds that she thought she had upset the house ghost and it was angry with her.

I told my friend, "I'm an expert on ghosts. You have to have your house at the right temperature. They don't like comfortably warm houses. They like icy cold places. Turn down their air conditioning and the ghost won't like it.

I thought about hedgehogs, which are nocturnal, and the sick ones are up in the daytime, and try to hide from you.

I added, "Besides, most ghosts are nocturnal. Only the sick ones are up in the daytime. You can easily tell it to go back to bed. Most guides have suffered misfortunes and are scared of people."

Notice the other symbols of Chinese New Year, such as spring flowers. The festival is also called Spring Festival. Another symbol is red lanterns. A third name is Lantern Festival for the last day, the 15th day.