day 1013

Pic 6 of 6: The 2nd series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Details of the Porcelain Lamp, River Hongbao festival.

day 1012

Pic 5 of 6: The 2nd series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Lamp-like thing with revolving top in between the phoenix and the dragon, of the Porcelain Lamp, River Hongbao festival.

day 1011

Pic 4 of 6: The 2nd series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Phoenix tail of Porcelain Lamp, River Hongbao festival.

day 1010

Pic 3 of 6: The 2nd series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Phoenix tail of Porcelain Lamp, River Hongbao festival.

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Pic 2 of 6: The 2nd series of Chinese New Year 2010.
The phoenix of the Porcelain Lamp, River Hongbao festival.

day 1008

The following six pictures are of Porcelain Lamp. It is actually not a lamp, but statue composed over ten thousands pieces of porcelain plates, bowls, cups and spoons showing the dragon, phoenix and a lamp-like shape in between, bringing auspices and prosperity. It is made by people of Chengdu China for Singapore's River Hongbao festival.

True to my idealistic, there is no picture of the whole statue, since the environment was just rather horrid with bright spot light, wires, nets and people in the back ground. But it's rather easy to imagine the scale since I think plates and spoons are on standard size around the world... more or less??

Pic 1 of 6: The 2nd series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Dragon Head of the Porcelain Lamp, River Hongbao festival.

day 994

Fancy a sweet dragon? Here is one for you!
Yes, it is made purely from sticky sugar, a type of traditional candy I called gulali during my childhood. But this one is enormous, as tall as 1.5metres I reckon.

Pic 8 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Taken from River Hongbao festival.

day 993

...And round and round the world we go!

Pic 7 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Taken from River Hongbao festival.

day 992

Chair-O-Planes, apparently a must-have, old time favourite to celebrate the festival in Singapore.

Pic 6 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Taken from River Hongbao festival.

day 991

From one of the exhibitions, represents peacock's tail. The Chinese equated peacock with divinity, rank, power and beauty.
My favourite picture of this series.

Pic 5 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010. 

Taken from River Hongbao festival. 

day 990

Fish, symbolises surplus and success. This fish from the Hongbao River festival is also a bubble maker - literally.
Amused me so much.

Pic 4 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Taken from River Hongbao festival.

day 989

The character Chun, or spring, written down on the lantern to welcome the season.

The pic 3 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Taken from River Hongbao festival.

day 988

Gold, money, lotus... Symbol of incoming prosperity.

Pic 2 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010.
Taken from River Hongbao festival.

day 987

From Wikipedia:
Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is also called Lunar New Year because it is based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese calendar (which is 14th February this year) and ends on the 15th day; this day is called Lantern Festival.

The following eight pictures are the first series of pictures taken from Chinese New Year 2010 celebration.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the year of Tiger!!

Let's wish for a bouncing and roaring tiger after the hard time last year...

Pic 1 of 8: The 1st series of Chinese New Year 2010.

Taken from River Hongbao festival.