Chinese tradition became a big part of our way of living, especially us Filipinos in celebrating New Year. Feng Shui is a Chinese practice, that teach us the do's and don'ts in order to create a harmonious surroundings. This is a belief that will give us good fortune and cast away evil spirits and bad luck.

I already shared how we celebrate for the past New Years, so for today, I would like to share how we welcome the year 2022 by the beliefs from our old ways of following Feng Shui or Chinese tradition.

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13 Rounds Fruits

Why 13? There should be only 12 fruits which represents the 12 months of the year, the additional one means bonus or additional luck. We have this sayings, "The more, the merrier" so if you want more prosperity for your whole year then better to make it 13.

In our family, we eat one kind of fruit everyday. For example, January 1 we will eat the apple, then on January 2 we will eat the melon, up to January 13, the last fruit on the table.

Speaking of fruits, let me add this one.

We used to make bracelets using grapes. Every bracelet contains 8 pieces of grapes. Why 8? Because in Chinese tradition, number 8 means luck. If you look at the number 8, it also represents the symbol of infinity, which means that the blessings that will come to you is infinite.

This is not use for our wrists, but to hang in our doors and windows. That when the New Year come, these bracelets will attract the prosperity.

Prosperity Candles

At 11:50 we are going to light all these candles so when the New Year come it's already set. If for Halloween candles are used to lighten the path of the souls of our loved ones, then for New Year these candles bring prosperity. If you want to know the meaning of every candle, then you can read it in my previous article.

Prosperity Bowl

Okay in here, what we prepared was not placed in a bowl, but let me explain what the meaning of every container. I asked my mom and according to her;

• Oil - "When you wash the oil, there's always left right? This means that in every situation even how hard life is, we always have something left. We will not live nothing."

• Sugar - "for a sweet life"

• Salt - "it's essential in cooking, in every viand that we cook we use salt. This will give luck to all our essential needs. "

• Cotton - "it is light weight. This will remove the burden and heavy problems that might happened in our life. Light weight, easy life."

Prosperity Coins

This is for wealth and good fortune. Who doesn't like to have prosperity in money right? Money is essential too, we can't have our daily needs when we don't have money; this also includes the Ang Pao. Last night my parents made an Amazing race game, then in every station the reward is Ang Pao:D

They are actually taking videos but when we check it at 1 am, they forgot to click the 'record'

What I have shared are only those that we perfume last night, there are so many and I know some of us here have their own and you can share it in comment section :)

But what I always said, the prayer is the most important of all.

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Author's love message :

A Happy New Year lovely readers! A blessed new beginning to everyone of us.

I wish for prosperity and that God will help us more in our journey here in read.cash

Ps. Happy birthday to @Trofi01 , I know you don't celebrate this but I wish you a good health and joy in your 2022.

Word of the day!

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

-Buddha

January 1, 2022

-Ling