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Monday, 25 January 2016

这个新年，让如意带来心想事成

迎送了2015之后，我们即将迎接2016年的首个欢庆 – 农历新年。全新的一年，有很多未知的挑战，机会与希望。对于很多上班族来说，今年除了努力还希望能迎来一些好运，好让自己在事业或生活上能平步青云，事事如意。

所以华珍诚意推出了非常独特的新年饰品系列 – [如意]吊坠与耳环。

如，意味着“喜欢；相似的；符合”和意，意思是“愿望；期望；思想；想像力”。如意，能代表“称心如意，随心所欲;按照自己的期望”。

戴[如意]有助于增加运气及达成心愿。如果你想在今年的生意更兴隆，戴[如意]能提升您的商机和别人对您的信任。

上班族的，如果您希望在今年晋升，戴[如意]是一个非常合适的开运首饰，好让您在新的一年里有更好的发展。

对于那些想要在今年换新工或挑战新事业的人，[如意]也许能令您找到更好的机会，比去年赚更多。

以18k 白金制成的[如意]，添加了闪闪发亮的钻石或黄宝石，造型创新，寓意美好，是展现个人气质最好的饰品。其“如意”寓意着做什么事情或想要得到什么东西都能够得心应手，正正道出了人们的心声。同时也把[如意]最真切的寓意表达出来，给大家在健康、事业，生活、婚姻爱情等带来如意。

如果您也想在2016 年称心如意，一枚吉祥[如意吊坠]或一对万事[如意耳环]最适合您。

18k 白金镶黄宝石吊坠

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Monday, 18 January 2016

7 Things You Can Do For Your Parents This Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is an important time for celebration that is filled with similar customs dated back thousands of years, from honouring ancestors to cleaning house to colourful parades. During this time also the children will pay respect to their parents and elders who have been raising them up today as they are.

Have you ever thought what to do this year to show your love to your parents? Of course you do, and our few suggestions here might match yours.

Going home

Chinese New Year symbolizes reunion and togetherness. If you have not been celebrating with your parents for the past years, perhaps you should this year. Having children by side during special festivals are always the best wish comes true for parents.

Chinese New Year is meaningful for your
parents when you are with them

House cleaning

In addition, give them a surprise by going home a few days earlier to help them clean the home or da sao chu; dust and refresh the furniture, sweep the floor, scrub the window and even some repainting. Some believe that children who da sao chu will increase the longevity of parents.

It is said da sao chu by children will increase
the longevity of parents

Yearly vacations

Depending on your budget, overseas or local ones are fine, as long as they get to enjoy their life on your expenses. And to make sure they do, pay all accommodation, transportation, food expenses for them, including spending money.

Vacationing together tightens the bonds between
parents and children

Pay for their living expenses

You might not realize, your parents have been reserving the best for you all these years, all at free cost for you. Perhaps they won’t ask, but offering to cover their expenses like phone and electric bills or even fuel from now on assures that you will be taking care of them.

Offering to pay for parents is a filial way
to tell them you cared for them

Take care of their health

As your parents grow older, they might need all sorts of supplements to maintain their well being. In Chinese culture, teas and herbs such as gingko, ginseng and cordyceps are part of nutrition diets that you can consider to buy for your parents.

It's time to reward parents who have worked hard
for you all these years

Bring your other half

Nothing makes your parents more relieved than knowing you have found the right person to love and being loved. Thus, if you are sure he or she is the one, bring them home this festival and introduce to your parents.

Chinese New Year is also the season of getting
to know each other well

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Invest for them

Gold is always the auspicious colour in Chinese New Year. Traditionally, besides gold jewellery, Chinese buy gold bars too, which are both presentable and long lasting in value. Now, it sounds equally suitable as a gift or investment for your parents, right?

This year, Wah Chan introduces some of our fine gold bar selections that you might like to get one for your beloved parents.

999 Fine Gold Bar

999 Fine Longevity Gold Bar

999 Fine PAMP Monkey Gold Bar

Monday, 11 January 2016

10 Taboos & Superstitions You Must Avoid This Chinese New Year

It’s hard to believe, but two weeks from now we will be celebrating 2016 Lunar New Year. Well, once again, we are looking at the same checklist of things to do right until the first day of New Year, which are riddled with superstitions and taboos.

And to make sure you didn’t break any, here are the top Chinese New Year taboos you must avoid…

1. NO sweeping and throwing out

Yes, you might know you can’t sweep floor only on the first day of Chinese New Year, for fear of sweeping away the family’s fortune. But sweeping out to the entrance and throwing away garbages during Chinese New Year will equally "sweep out" the wealth of the entire year.

Sweeping is allowed on second day of Chinese New Year
but sweeping out and throwing away rubbish are not allowed

2. NO hair washing on the first day of Chinese New Year

Hair is a homonym to wealth in Chinese; therefore it is seen as not a good thing to “wash one’s fortune away” at the beginning of the New Year.

Some elders would allow for hair washing after 9pm
on the first day of Chinese New Year

3. NO money borrowing or lending

Some believe that borrowing or lending money during Chinese New Year will bring bad luck as you will be likely to borrow or lend for the rest of year. Thus, all debts should be cleared before the first day of the new year.

Clearing all debts is also a good resolution
for a new year ahead

4. NO hair cut

Similarly, getting your hair cut during this time might chop off your fortune luck in the New Year. The word hair in Chinese, fa can be meant “wealth” and “rich” too.

This explains why you need a hair cut
other than fashioning purpose

5. NO number 4

The pronunciation of four, si sounds like “death” in Chinese word and thus regarded as inauspicious. Any sayings or decorations that are related to four are forbidden throughout the festival.

Though tangerines are prosperous fruits, arranging them
in four will bring in opposite meaning

6. NO books and shoes buying

Again a homonym, books sounds like “lose” and shoes sounds as if “sigh” or “hard”, making them inauspicious.

A more reasonable explanation is that we should spend
more time with family and friends instead of shopping

7. NO crying

Chinese traditions hold that, if you cry during Chinese New Year, you will cry throughout the year. Therefore, children are tolerated, even if they are mischievous.

Babies are exempted though, as they rarely
cry for being mischievous

8. NO breaking

Breaking plates or glasses are not auspicious in Chinese New Year as it signifies misfortune. If you unfortunately did, quickly say "Peace all the time" to counter the bad luck. Don't throw the broken pieces until the 5th day of celebration.

Saying "Peace all the time" will ward away bad luck

9. NO afternoon nap

It is believed that taking afternoon nap on the first day of Lunar New Year will bring you a lazy year ahead.

Taking an afternoon nap also shows a disrespect
to visiting family and friends

10. NO black & white

Black and white clothes always remind people of sad occasions such as funerals, thus should be avoided throughout the festival.

Chinese New Year always welcomes
red colour as it symbolizes luck

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Hopefully by now you will have a better insight on how taboos and superstitions during Chinese New Year are observed. While many people may not believe in these nowadays, the traditions are still kept as a legacy from the past. And after all, who doesn't like the bit of luck in the new year?

Besides obeying these superstitions, Chinese culture is also full of accessories that symbolize good luck, such as our fine pendants here.

916 Yellow Gold Lucky Pineapple Pendant

916 Yellow Gold Abundance Bucket Pendant

916 Yellow Gold Prosperous Fish Pendant

916 Yellow Gold Abundance Fish Pendant

916 Yellow Gold Wealthy Ingot Pendant

916 Yellow Gold Exquisite Abascus Pendant

Like us on our Wah Chan Official Facebook as we bring you more lucky pendants this Lunar New Year.

Sunday, 27 December 2015

8 MUST EAT LUCKY FINGER FOOD DURING CHINESE NEW YEAR

Happy New Year, everybody! The celebration continues this month with another feasting festival, Chinese New Year! Well, what are we really going to eat during the celebration? Often, dishes with homonyms are gladly eaten for their symbolic meaning, and it’s not hard to guess based on their pronunciations or appearances. We are sure you have eaten some of these 6 finger food during Chinese New Year that might contributed to your expanding waist LOL. Kidding.

Dumplings

Chinese dumplings taking the shape of old ingot coins

Traditionally eaten on Chinese New Year Eve for the past 1,800 years, dumplings are normally minced meat and finely-chopped vegetables wraps. The dumplings’ shapes resemble yuan bao (Ming dynasty era coins) so they come to represent money and wealth. Boiled, steamed or fried, it is believed the more you cook and eat dumplings, the more money you will make in the New Year.

Spring rolls

Spring rolls are homonym to a ton of wealth

As the name suggests, spring rolls are traditionally a Cantonese dim sum eaten during the Spring Festival. Now a popular Chinese New Year appetizer, these cylindrical-shaped rolls of vegetables or meats, when cooked to golden perfection, are said to resemble gold bars which means wealth.

Nian gao

Nian gao literally means "getting higher year by year"

Made of glutinous rice flour, sugar, Chinese dates, lotus leaves, chestnuts and sugar, nian gao garners a rise and improvement in career, study, or life. Literally means “sticky cake”, this sweet Chinese New Year dessert is a homonym to wish people "getting higher year by year".

Turnip cakes

Familiarly called luo buo gao, steamed or fried turnip cakes are the must-have dim sum delight for Cantonese people during Chinese New Year. Made from radish, turnip cakes are associated with the phrase hao cai tao (好彩頭), to indicate prosperity and growing fortunes.

Tang yuan

Tang yuan is associated with to gather and reunite

Yes, Chinese people not only eating tang yuan during China’s Lantern Festival, but in Chinese New Year too. The pronunciation and round shape of tang yuan are an easy indication of reunion and being together. Modern tang yuan tends to be sweet, containing sesame, red bean paste, peanuts and others.

Noodles

It is usually called "longevity noodles" during Chinese New Year

Longevity is another theme in Chinese New Year, and it is symbolized by noodles. The longer the noodle the better for you, because unbroken noodles are believed to be a good sign of long and healthy life.

Tangerines

Tangerines with leaves are good as they represent longevity too

Used as both decorations and given as gifts, tangerine represents good luck. The round shape and golden colour also add fullness and wealth to the already auspicious meaning. Just a tip, do not group the citrus fruit in fours as that number itself symbolizes death.

Pomelos

Pomelo is thought to bring "continuous prosperity and status"

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Of course we won’t forget pomelo. The Chinese word for pomelo, you zi (柚子) sounds like the word “to have” so it is acknowledged to bring abundance and prosperity to the household. Pomelo is also symbolic of family unity.

Aside from the delectable tastes, Chinese New Year traditional food are all about homonyms which resembles auspicious meanings. After all, who doesn't love to ring in the year with good luck? But perhaps, you can double down the tradition and luck with a fortunate gold pendant that matches you?