Death is coming

The closer death creeps up upon me the less I am able to understand the reasons for life or living.

Yes I have experienced a close family member dying and unlike television it takes decades to handle such a thing. To think I am going to put my family through such a thing when I finally leave is more horrific to me than the thought of death itself.

My life was and is still a learning experience but when all said and done what am I to do with all this accumulated learning over my lifetime if I just die. There is no logic or reason to this.

Long ago I became aware that the God story that is sold to the majority is just a nice story to give mankind with a message of a basic layout of how nice life could be if everyone followed these ideas. Not many in life do and if one thinks about it the good and evil structures actually depend on each other. The good that can be experienced in life is only understood as good when there is it's opposite to compare it to. This is not rocket science only common sense in reality. I am not saying we need to experience bad but understanding in it is needed to appreciate the great things many of us can have in our lives. From birth to death there are many ways mankind helps his fellow man. How many ways can you help?


Sunday, December 11, 2011

An Insight Into Oriental New Years Crafts

By Steve Chung


Explore the creative streak in Chinese people in form of art and craft items that are made during the arrival of the New Year.

The Chinese people for decades now have been using the lunar calendar. Out of all the important days, no other date or occasion is as popular or important as the Chinese New Year.

Apparently, the Chinese New Year does not fall on the first of January. Cycle of the moon plays an important role in confirming the date of the New Year thus we find that it is a date totally different from Gregorian calendar dependent on the sun.

New Year is the occasion to have fun for the Chinese people. The mood is joyful throughout the season and lots of celebrations are visible on the streets of China. You will see a large number of exceptional craftsmanship which has been developed over the years among other Chinese customs and traditions.

Amongst the different celebrations with feasts and firecrackers there is also Chinese New Year crafts which are certainly a colorful addition to this festivity. They are a ideal example of the creativity and talent of the Chinese people.

The celebrations during the New Year festival involves fireworks display, the sharing of gifts and also the lantern festival. All days during this season also have their own exhibition of Chinese crafts that represent the feature of the event and these objects sell out completely and quickly during these days of the festival.

All New Years in China is represented by an animal symbol, naturally the Chinese New Year crafts too represent the animal in all their crafts. This practice has some useful purposes in Chinese society.

First and foremost, this is a way of keeping the ancient Chinese culture alive. Besides, there are a lot of artists and craftsmen who get a opportunity to expose their skill and also get a good market to make their works commercially viable and do a lot of business during the festival.

The most useful quality of the Chinese New Years craft is that they make wonderful New Year presents which the Chinese give to each other. Another great purpose that they serve is the animal crafts which are gifted to the people who were born in the current animal year.

It is not true that the New Year crafts only cater to the animal symbols. In fact there is a broad spectrum of crafts that are specially made around this time and there is an interesting and wonderful set of fireworks that also belong to the New Year crafts collection.

Lantern crafts of different kinds are another special New Year variety. The Chinese are into the practice of fortune telling and various such crafts telling you about the fortune that is to come your way in the coming year can all be seen being sold in the market. There are a bundle of craft items especially catering to the kids as well during this time of the year.




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