All Geocachers are warmly welcomed, to join us
at
The Pride of Lincoln Hotel
COME ALONG AND WISH SOMEONE A HAPPY NEW YEAR IN
CHINESE:
Mandarin:
Xin Nian Kuai Le! (Happy New Year)
Cantonese:
Gung Xi Fa Cai (Gung Hay Fat Choy! (may prosperity be with
you)
Runcorn Road, off Whisby Road,Lincoln,
Lincolnshire, LN6 3QZ
on Sunday 14th February
2010
From 12.00 noon to
3.00pm.
All Geocachers are welcome to come along for a
chat in the Hotels huge function room. If your new to Geocaching,
this is the ideal event for you. We don’t bite, we are very
friendly folk and we will always give you a warm welcome. Go on,
try it!
Food and
refreshments will be available over the bar. (Two meals for
£10)
Children
are welcome and the venue is wheelchair friendly.
Please
bring any coins & “bugs along to swap but log them into
this event when you arrive”. All cachers are requested to
book any “trackable items” out of the event within
24hrs.
FTF will be
drawn from the can around 2.30p.m. There will be a selection of
un-activated coins/travel bugs/caches/accessories etc on sale at
the event.
It is also
hoped to have a few more new caches placed especially for this
event. Keep a watch out for them a day or so before the
event.
To get
there, from the A46 Lincoln bypass. Look out for a large building
that has a windmill in it with no sails (This is the location
you’re going to). Next to this building on it’s
southern side, turn off the A46 onto Whispy Road. Take the next
left into Kingsley Road and again the next left into Runcorn Road.
The Hotel is at the end of the road and has a very large car park,
so the more the merrier. See you there!!
Come along and celebrate the start of the New Chinese New
Year, (The Year of The Tiger)
Chinese New Year is
the most important festival in Chinese culture. It is celebrated on
the new moon of the first month according to the lunar calendar,
and is a time for family reunions and scrumptious feasts.
Chinese New Year traditionally lasts from the first day to the
15th day of the New Year , but the demands of modern life mean that
most people don’t get such an extended holiday. Still, the
first five days of the New Year are an official holiday in Taiwan,
while workers in Mainland China and Singapore get at least 2 or 3
days off.
The Chinese New Year is a chance to leave the problems of the
previous year behind. It is important to start the New Year fresh,
and this means cleaning up the house and buying new clothes.
Houses are decorated with red paper banners which have
auspicious couplets written on them. These are hung around doorways
and are intended to bring luck to the household for the coming
year.
Red is an important colour in Chinese culture, symbolizing
prosperity. Many people will wear red clothing during the New Year
celebrations, and houses will have many red decorations such as
Chinese knot work.
Red Envelopes
Red envelopes are given to children and unmarried adults.
Married couples also give red envelopes to their parents.
The envelopes contain money. The money must be in new bills, and
the total amount must be an even number. Certain numbers (such as
four) are bad luck, so the total amount should not be one of these
unlucky numbers. “Four” is a homonym for
“death”, so a red envelope should never contain $4,
$40, or $400.
Fireworks
Evil spirits are driven away by loud noise, so Chinese New Year
is a very loud celebration. Long strings of firecrackers are set
off throughout the holiday, and there are many displays of
fireworks lighting up the evening skies.
Some countries such as Singapore and Malaysia restrict the use
of fireworks, but Taiwan and Mainland China still allow almost
unrestricted use of firecrackers and other fireworks.
Chinese Zodiac
The Chinese zodiac cycles every 12 years, and each year is named
after an animal. The year of the Tiger Starts on: February 14, 2010
- and continues until February 02, 2011
- Ox : January 26, 2009 – February 13, 2010
- Tiger : February 14, 2010 - February 02, 2011
- Rabbit : February 03, 2011 - January 22, 2012
- Dragon : January 23, 2012 - February 09, 2013
- Snake : February 10, 2013 - January 30, 2014
- Horse : January 31, 2014 - February 18, 2015
- Sheep : February 19, 2015 - February 07, 2016
- Monkey : February 08, 2016 - January 27, 2017
- Rooster : January 28, 2017 - February 18, 2018
- Dog : February 19, 2018 - February 04, 2019
- Pig : February 05, 2019 - January 24, 2020
- Rat : January 25, 2020 - February 11, 2021
In
the spirit of The Chinese New Year, it would be nice is all
attendees to this event, wore one or more items of red clothing.
Thank you