An odd family!

Thank you Vidhyalakshmi...only the titles are catchy na...but the inside stuff...mushy, mushy...:biglaugh
Just kidding, if you had enjoyed it..so do I , to get fbs from you all

sriniketan

 

Welcome to this "odd' family".
Yeah, Malar, we learn something new everyday na!

sriniketan

 

Haha..another odd family...
I now feel contended that we are not alone..:rotfl
True Mindi, I remembered last year when you mentioned about this New Year in KL. I thought of writing this last year itself...but somehow forgot..:biggrin2:

About the reddish thing: I saw this explanation to it in Wikipedia:

According to tales and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against a mythical beast called the Nian (Chinese: 年; pinyin: nián). Nian would come on the first day of New Year to devour livestock, crops, and even villagers, especially children. To protect themselves, the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year. It was believed that after the Nian ate the food they prepared, it wouldn’t attack any more people. One time, people saw that the Nian was scared away by a little child wearing red. The villagers then understood that the Nian was afraid of the colour red. Hence, every time when the New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used firecrackers to frighten away the Nian. From then on, Nian never came to the village again. The Nian was eventually captured by Hongjun Laozu, an ancient Taoist monk. The Nian became Hongjun Laozu's mount.[6]

Sriniketan

 

Raba,
You are not in the odd family group...
Nice to know one more on the even family side :hiya[

Title queen...haha..

sriniketan

 

Welcome Jaishree,
True, separate breeds in the family...nice way to put it in!

sriniketan