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| My collection |
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| Flowers symbolise the arrival of Spring |
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| Sweets box filled with yummy candies and nuts. |
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| A steamboat dinner |
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| Yusheng (鱼生-- a salad dish of raddish, carrot shreds, crackers, sasame and peanut bits with thin slices of raw fish, accompanied by a sweet-sour plum sauce). The ingredients in this dish are tossed and the act is believed to toss up some wealth and turn the fortunes in our favour. |
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| Buildings have been decorated with flowers and well wishes (couplets) |
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| Rows and rows of makeshift stalls line both sides of the street |
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| Charms that people hang in their cars, on purses, anywhere |
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| Windmills blessed at the Wong Tai Xin Temple in Hong Kong, believed to change the previous year's bad luck when the wheel turns with the help of the wind |
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| Auspicious Chinese sayings to be stuck to the doors |
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| Dried preserved meats (duck, leg of ham, Chinese sausages) -- in the past, these were prepared to tide over the winter months when people could not go out to hunt. The meats are either salted or sugared. It's now become a tradition to have these. |
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| More accessories for decorating the house |
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| Lanterns and decorations to ignite the celebrative mood |
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| Not forgetting the flowers |
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| These cheery windmills are for the kids |
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| These knotted tassles can be added to lanterns or hung on their own. Very colourful. |
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| Mustn't forget the lanterns |
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| Chinese lions (These were what I thought Jane had in mind in the early days of the 2011 TIAS) |
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| Other finds -- big calligraphy brushes |
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| And dolls of the different Chinese tribal peoples |
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| Day 3, and I thought it was going to be a Chinese "lion", the one you'll find in lion dances. |
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| Day 4, and I have totally no idea what it's going to be now... |
