{"id":16078,"date":"2012-02-06T17:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16078"},"modified":"2012-02-06T17:28:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T15:28:26","slug":"chinese-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/06\/chinese-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog that I’m a big fan of Chinese culture. \u00a0Today, at the office, we had Chinese New Year<\/a> celebrations will plenty of home-made food (cooked by our Chinese colleagues) and red decorations all around. \u00a0That inspired me to read some more about China on Wikipedia and even try my hand at calligraphy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The above image depicts my third attempt, which was good enough to be readable and was actually recognized by at least one Chinese person as “this is actually pretty good<\/em>“. \u00a0Let’s all call that my best wishes for all of you this year.<\/p>\n

P.S.: If you wander what that one means, I used this image<\/a> as the source of inspiration. \u00a0Wikipedia says it means “When wealth is acquired, precious objects follow”. \u00a0Having no idea myself, I’m inclined to trust that.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog that I’m a big fan of Chinese culture. \u00a0Today, at the office, we had Chinese New Year celebrations will plenty of home-made food (cooked by our Chinese colleagues) and red decorations all around. \u00a0That inspired me to read some more about China on Wikipedia and even try … Continue reading Chinese New Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2980,438,1971,2907,2603],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-calligraphy","tag-celebrations","tag-china","tag-moblog","tag-new-year"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t