Sheffield Chinese New Year Celebrations Monday 23rd January 2012
January 10, 2012 by Sifu Peter Allsop
Filed under China General, Feng Shui and Chinese Astrology, Shaolin External Kung Fu and Wu Shu
Xin Nien Kuei Leur! Kung Hei Fat Choy!
Nin Hao Hak Lung Nien!
Year of the Dragon 2012-13:
Happy New Year! Welcome Black Dragon Year 2012!
From Hoan Lung Shaolin Kung Fu Quan (Shaolin Fists International) aka ‘Sheffield Kung Fu’
City Hall Monday 23rd February 5:00-7:00 Stalls 7:00-9:00 pm Performances--Tickets £5:00
Thank you kind organisers for arranging these celebrations at Sheffield City Hall!
Here Are the Dates for the next three Chinese New Years
2012 23rd Feb 2012 Year of the Dragon
2013 10th Feb 2013 Year of the Snake
2014 31st Jan 2014 Year of the Horse
‘Fu’ or Good Luck and a Happy New Year’
The ‘Fu’ or ‘Good Luck!’ Symbol is always conspicuously displayed during the Chinese New Year Period. Intriguingly, ‘Fu’ has two different meanings, depending on which way up you view it, both together mean ‘Happy New Year!’ (You can obtain excellent hanging versions fron thw ‘Tai Sun’ supermarket just off the Moor)
'Fu' or 'Good Luck'--Hang it Upside Down and it Means 'Dao' or ' Arriving'. Viewed This Way Up it Shows a Woman Next to a Loaded Stove or Cooker!
A different character from Kung Fu it shows a woman by an oven or stove cooking up something special! It’s often displayed upside-down as it then resembles the Chinese character ‘dao’ meaning ‘to arrive’ in the sense of ‘good luck arriving’
Food for Thought
Food, as the above symbol indicates, is an important part of Chinese New Year. Many of the Festival’s customs and traditions reflect this clearly Dumplings symbolising fortune (resembling small gold and silver ingots once used as currency) are consumed with particular gusto. As ‘fish’ and ‘plenty/abundance’ sound very similar in Chinese fish dishes are also popular. Delicious glutinous rice-cakes also feature regularly on the New Year Agenda.
Spare-ribs, Singapore Noodles and Special Rice are enough, however, to get you underway if you’ve never tried Chinese cuisine before.
Programme List 2011
7:00pm Lion Dance
7:15pm Opening Speech by Minister Mr Qin Gang
7:20pm Speech by Leader of Sheffield City Council
– Cllr Paul Scriven
7:25pm Performance
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Children Dance – Jasmine Flower
(Confucius Institute Star Mandarin School)
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Thousand Arm Goddess
(Dunhuang Group Dance)
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“Lasting Appeal of the Elegant Clarinet” & “Yi Zhou”
(Instrumental; Pipa)
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Acrobatics
(Female Solo)
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The Dunhuang Dance
(Dunhuang Group Dance)
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“Tin Shan Mountain” & “Dance of the Yi People”
(Instrumental; Pipa)
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Kung Fu
(Martial Arts)
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The Balance
(Acrobatics)
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“Fight Against the Typhoon” & “Moonlight over Spring River”
(Instrumental; GuZheng)
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Romance in Dunhuang
(Dunhuang Female Dance)
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Han Group Dance – “Song of the Orchid”
(CSSA Pixies Dance Group)
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Thank You Speech by Chair of Organising Committee
– Mr. Jerry Cheung
See you all there I hope!
Sifu Peter Allsop
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