I read the Telegraph article "Chinese New Year 2017, year of the Rooster! What's your zodiac animal?" (sorry for the video auto-play). The list of Chinese New Year's Day Taboos was particularly interesting.
I already know not to wash things, but didn't know it was partially because (#3) "People do not wash clothes on the first and second day because these two days are celebrated as the birthday of Shuishen (水神, the Water God)."
Number 8 "Crying Children" ("The cry of a child is believed to bring bad luck to the family so parents do their best to keep children as happy as possible.") is a little too late / unavoidable now (more about that later)...
I kept the tradition of a vegetarian lunch (corresponds to #13). Well, mostly, I finished off James's lunch and that had some fish...
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This photo seems appropriate (Coconut and House Hippo from last-last Christmas (2015)).
And, so does this:
