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waffler

Somebody probably thought they were so clever and cute when they thought of this

Dec 11, 2006 23:56

Someone needs to tell these guys how incredibly wrong and offensive this is (or here and here in case that link didn't work ( Read more... )

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Burn Incense For Their Ancestors. anonymous December 14 2006, 09:44:05 UTC

Your story is not complete about knitting needles on a ball of yarn which resembles chopstick into a bowl of rice reminiscing burn incense for their ancestors. When a person is sticking chopstick into a bowl a rice, he is actually offering ghosts, ancestors or otherwise, that bowl of rice. Usually during the Chinese 7x7=49 days of mourning after the death of relatives at their altars. It is a haunting gesture. The number "7" is not a very luck number for Chinese. I want to make the point that Far Eastern/Chinese culture and Western Cultures are often the exact opposite. "3" or "13" is a luck Chinese number. The Dragon represent friends, good luck and a symbol to be worshiped. While in the West the dragon is the symbol of the Devil. Wang the wisest computer in the world.

Re: Burn Incense For Their Ancestors. waffler December 14 2006, 21:07:16 UTC

Well, what's even more than that is the example of red being a lucky color in Chinese culture, a color of celebration and joy, but red in Western culture it's sort of related to blood/death, etc. Red is worn at Chinese weddings, but white is worn at Western ones, but white is worn at Chinese funerals! So it's kinda funny that way.