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YEAR OF THE DRAGON
A magnificent comeback after the recuperative year of the Rabbit. We will throw caution to the four winds and roll up our sleeves for all sorts of grandiose, exhilarating, colossal, over ambitious and daring projects. The indomitable spirit of the Dragon will inflate everything to larger than life size. Somehow we will find ourselves bubbling with excess energy. It will be wise not to overestimate ourselves or our potentials in this combustible year. Things appear better than they actually are.
On the brighter side, business will be good and money can be generated or obtained easily. It is the time to ask your bank for a loan. Big spending and lavish plans are the rule of the day. The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching. He gambles for all or nothing. He will stimulate us to think and act big, even overstepping the bounds of caution.
Orientals consider this to be an auspicious year to get married, have children, or start a new business , as the benevolent Dragon brings good fortune and happiness.
However, this is also a time to temper our enthusiasm and look twice before taking a plunge. For although the lucky Dragon showers his blessing indiscriminately on all, he disappears when the time comes for making retributions for our errors. Success as well as failures will thus be magnified. The Fire Dragon is especially feared, as he wreaks more havoc than the Dragons of the other elements.
In the Dragon's year, fortunes as well as disaster will come in massive waves. This is a year marked by a lot of surprises and violent acts of nature. Tempers will flare the world over and everyone will be staging some real or imaginary revolt against constrictions. The electric atmosphere created by the might Dragon will affect us, one and all.
Source:
The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes by Theodora Lau Published by arrow Books Limited
The “China Carnival Spring Gala” All-Star Performing Troupe, hosted by the Canada-China Cultural Development Association will be coming to Canada again during the 2012 Chinese New Year! Since its debut in 2008, over 25 breathtaking shows
were held in more than 12 cities across North America. For the past four years,
the troupe has performed only in the east coast when visiting Canada.
To celebrate the Year of the Dragon, Calgary Chinese Community is honored to have gathered enough local support to welcome the performing troupe to Calgary for the first time. Calgary is the last stop for the troupe in their 20-day North American tour this year.
The 75-member all-star troupe specializes in ancient Chinese musical instruments, singing styles, forms of dance and costumes from a variety of Chinese minorities and historical periods. It will give the audience in Calgary the opportunity to enjoy nationally-renowned artists from China. The show will be rich and colorful, including traditional singing and dancing, acrobatics and magic.
One time performance in Calgary will be held on Friday, February 17th, 2012 at the Jubilee Auditorium.
The Meaning of the Chinese character
By Paul K.P. Wong
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The Chinese character “福” (pronounced “folk”) means "Good Fortune”, “Good Luck" and “Blessing” -- a gift is given from God, mother nature or Heaven.
The composition of this Chinese character includes clothing, cultivated land, homes and healthy families".
In Chinese culture, if we have all those things above, it means we are the fortunate people. In other words, no matter if we are Chinese or not, we, the people, do desire the prosperity.
However, on the background of the picture, there should have ninety-nine different writings of the character, all together are a hundred different styles, it means one hundred or all kinds of good fortune/luck, and lots of blessing.