The colour of the season.
The Chinese of temperate lands greet the season as winter is replaced by spring. They have every reason to celebrate as it means starting a new year in the Lunar Calendar and keeping the cold and gloom away. The Chinese of tropical lands are mostly migrants of lands of residence but nevertheless carry on the culture of their forefathers and have every reason to celebrate too.
It is a season of family togetherness ushering in the new year with a new hope, prosperity and plenty of good luck.
To connote all the good things that are to come; red is the colour.
Red seemingly knocks down ill luck, drives away evil and ushers in everything good. To the Chinese, the colour must be seen, worn and adorned in the home, So, it is without surprise that when you visit shopping malls including our very own Mydin, you will see the favourite hue of the season.
At a local mall, the entrance itself is decorated with red canopy to only allow all things good to enter its door for business and prosperity.
Red packets are adorned with reminders that good fortune and prosperity are the talk of the year. This is the year of the monkey in the Lunar Calendar.
That unmistakable pineapple pronounced as "Ong Lai" is an unspoken connotation of good luck. So it is also typically hung in Chinese homes for good fortune to happen.
Of course they are nothing in comparison to the real ones of temperate lands but I suppose they are good representations of what they are there. Flowers in particular the peony is a celebrated bloom too. So plastically artificial or not they will find their way to homes.
You see the malls surely understand the clients well. They sell brooms, dustbins and mops all in the precise shade. What better way to get business done.
Table runners, floor mats and cushions are all well matched.
They must be in red.
The trend happens only in this season.
The couplets speaking of all good and the best are here to allow what is spoken be real. Surely what you profess with the mouth is powerful.
My eyes roved everywhere but only saw the colour of the season; red.
This has thus persuaded me to buy red clothes too; do try to catch me in that colour. You will be overwhelmed.
The epitome of red at Pavillion.
May the season be one of joy indeed.
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