ADVENTURES IN ASIA WITH LADYB AND GONGGONG
Story #16: Every day in Taiwan Province and across China is New Year’s!
Puli Town, Nantou County, Taiwan Province, China
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Dear Mila,
In the West, we put up Christmas decorations in December and usually take them down early January. In Taiwan Province and all across China, the people leave their Chinese New Year decorations up for the following twelve months!
Calligraphy posters, usually red, that year’s zodiac animal and other accoutrements are left in windows, on building and home fronts and around doors.
It has been Happy New Year of the Dragon since February 2024 and the spirit will continue until the end of January 2025, when the Year of the Snake starts.
One poster in Puli really caught our attention. It is homemade, three-dimensional, with firecrackers and the hand drawn character 春 （chun）， which means “spring”, as in season. In fact, Chinese New Year is called Spring Festival in Chinese, as the New Year begins to usher in warmer weather for planting.
This artist created a perpetual New Year poster. By not mentioning any zodiac animal year, it is timeless. They can leave it up forever!
LadyB really likes an essay I wrote about the ever-fascinating Chinese agricultural and lunar calendars, which you can see here,
Chinese Lunar and Agricultural Calendars Explained-A China Rising Radio Sinoland Cultural Special Edition
Happy New Year of the Dragon, today, tomorrow and for the next six weeks! Then, get ready to H-I-S-S!
Love, Grandfather Gonggong
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