Chinese New Year

 

THE time has come again when mistletoe, fruitcake and gaily wrapped presents give way to red lanterns, mandarin oranges and red packets.

To the Chinese, the most important festival is Chinese New Year, which falls in either January or February. It is ushered in with the lighting of fire crackers at midnight on the eve of the Chinese Lunar Calendar

THIS year is a great one for long weekend vacations. Six public holidays fall on a Monday, Friday or Sunday.

They are Chinese New Year (Feb 14 to 16), Good Friday (April 2), Vesak Day (May 28), National Day (Aug 9), Hari Raya Puasa (Sept 10), and Deepavali (Nov 5).

On the even of the New Year, family relationships are remembered with a special reunion dinner to usher in the New Year. Younger members of the family visit their relatives, receiving red packets of lucky money (ang paus) while feasting and merrymaking. 

 

Kumquat Tree

    This is a play on words. In Chinese the kumquat is called Gam Gat Sue. The word Gam rhymes with the Chinese word for gold, and the word Gat rhymes with the Chinese word for luck. The tiny green leaves of this plant symbolise wealth as the word Luk (green) rhymes with the Chinese word for wealth. Finally the shape of the small oranges are a symbol of unity and perfection.

 

Flowers

Flowers hold a special significance at Chinese New Year, and the Chinese language's endless opportunities for puns and play on words are demonstrated in the flowers which are used. As with almost all activities at Chinese New Year, there is enormous symbolism in the use of flowers.

 

In Chinese cities around the world, flower fairs appear on the 26th day of the last moon, and run each evening until New Year's Eve. A stroll through the flower fair is a New Year ritual many Chinese enjoy, even after they've got all their spring flowers and appropriate for Chinese New Year, which is all about embracing spring. The flowers are from China and usually brought in a month before the festival, adding that other auspicious plants included lucky bamboo, chrysanthemums and gladioli, as well as lime and kumquat trees. ; indeed, it's a popular way of spending New Year's Eve while waiting to see in the New Year.

The colorful spectacle of Chinese New Year is evident long before the day of celebration itself. Eager crowds of shoppers can be seen searching for all kinds of seasonal delicacies: oranges for good luck, flowers and kumquat trees to beautify their homes. All debts must be settled and the house spotlessly cleaned before the new year begins.

The Chingay Parade traces its origins to a float decorating competition held in Penang in 1905. This practice of float decoration spread to the rest of Malaya by the 1960s, and eventually became associated with the Chinese New Year adds to the festive atmosphere with stilt walkers, lion and dragon dances, acrobats, and dozens of decorated floats taking to the streets amidst the clashing of cymbals and beating of gongs and drums. Malaysia is the best place to celebrate the Chinese New Year b'cos we are 1Malaysia.

Nutritional Fruit Banana

 

 

Note: Never store bananas in the refrigerator and why bananas is great.

Bananas contain 3 natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fibre. Bananas contribute energy to the people immediately and continuously. Studies have been made that 2 bananas have enough energy to exercise for 90 minutes. No wonder banana made two major world-famous athletes. Not only that, but bananas are also very suitable for preventing and treating several types of diseases, making it very suitable in our daily diet.

 
Pressure:
Referring to the latest survey undertaken by MIND patients of stress, most of them recover after eating bananas. This is because bananas contain Tryptophan, which is a type of protein that converted to serotonin in the human body, which leads us to calm, restore mood and generally make us feel happy.

PMS:
Forget hospitals pills - only eat bananas. Vitamin B6 can neutralize contained glucose in the blood, which can restore your mood.

Anemia:

With a high content of iron, bananas can control the growth of hemoglobin in the blood, which indirectly helps in cases of anemia.

 
High Blood Pressure:
This unique tropical fruit contains a high rate of potassium - low salt, making it the perfect place to stabilize blood pressure.

 
Mind Power:
Studies report by eating bananas for breakfast, break, and lunch which contain a high rate of potassium can help us be more efficient (alert).

Digestion:
Bananas contain high fibre help to stabilize the action of small and large intestines.

 
Fatigue:

One of the best way to reduce fatigue is to make a banana milk drink mixed with honey. It help rebuild the sugar level in the blood due to fatigue.

Heart Online:
Banana has the effect of natural anti-acid in the body. Therefore, if you have heat in the heart, try to eat bananas for a good recovery.
Morning Fever:

Banana as snacks each day to help maintain blood sugar in the morning to avoid the fever.

Mosquito bites:
Before using the insect bite cream, try to apply mosquito bites area with a layer of bananas skin ( inner ). Many who have successfully overcome the irritation caused by mosquito bites this way.

Nerve:
Bananas contain a high rate of B vitamins that help calm your nervous system.

Obesity and Working Pressure:
Studies at the Institute of Psychology in Austria found pressure of work became a catalyst to food intake, such as chocolate and chips. From 5000 hospital patients, the research found that most obese patients who work with high-pressure work and from reports also state, to overcome this problem, we need to control the sugar in the blood by taking a high carbohydrate foods every 2 hours to maintain a stable rate. Eat bananas.

Ulcers:
Banana is very good in the prevention of ulcers because it is soft and does not harm our internal organs. It also acts as neutral excess acid and reduce pain by covering our stomach wall layers.
Temperature control:
Many believe that by eating bananas, they can lower the temperature of both physical and emotional to pregnant mothers. In Thailand, for example, pregnant mothers take bananas to ensure the baby is born into a gentle (cool).

 
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD):
This disease is a symptom that occurs as a result of lack of exposure to sunlight. Banana can help these patients because it contains Tryptophan natural that we recover the mood.

Cigarette & Tobacco addiction:
Banana can help smokers who want to quit smoking. Vitamin B6, B12, potassium and magnesium found in bananas, it can help the body repair the effects of nicotine on the body.

Stress:
Potassium is a vital mineral material, which helps normal heartbeat, sends oxygen to the brain and balance the water content in the body. If we stress, increase our metabolism, causing the rate of potassium decrease. This situation can be offset with the help of high-potassium banana snack.

Stroke:
Based on studies in the book 'The New England Journal of Medicine', take bananas as a daily diet can reduce the risk of mortality from stroke by 40%!

Other Skin Diseases:

Medical practitioner natural (alternative) opinion, to eliminate various skin problems, including acne, sores, scars, mange, etc., take a piece of banana skin paste on the places that want to be treated with normal wound plaster. So, banana is a natural remedy for many diseases. Compared with apples, bananas have 4 times the protein, carbohydrate 2 times, 3 times phosphorus, 5 times the vitamin A and iron, and 2 times vitamins and other minerals. It is also rich in potassium and is one of the best food that easy available. 
So this may be time to change to a common word mentioned, "A piece of banana a day can keep the doctor away!"

PS: In conclusion, bananas is the leading cause of why primates in the forest is always healthy and happy all the time! If you need to shine your shoe, wipe your shoe with banana skin inner layer, apply directly to your shoes and then wipe with dry cloth. Amazing !