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                      New Year's Symbolic figures, fruits & etc.

It is our manner that every New years eve we tend to have any figures that can brings luck and prosperity towards the year... Anyway, there's no harm in believing.... =)

Here's are some of the symbols believing brings luck.... 

Lol!! That's me acting to ate that grapes hanging on our hangin' lamp.. Every New year my mom always have a Bundle of grapes  hanging inside of house. She believes that grapes can brings luck to us in terms of financial and have a prosper life... =) Here's the other explanation that I would share to my readers...

*Grapes, Lentils, Nuts, Pomegranates and Mistletoes

In several countries, grapes, lentils, nuts, pomegranates and mistletoes are used as auspicious New Year symbols. Use of grapes and lentils is said to ensure prosperity. The tradition of consuming grapes on New Year is particularly rampant in Italy. Here a popular saying goes, "eat grapes on New Year's Day and you'll be counting money the rest of the year". Pomegranate fruit is also served to guests as the fruit is associated with fertility and abundance. Mistletoes are considered a good luck charm. Hence in several places New Year table is often decorated with a sprig of mistletoe.

Source:http://www.happywink.org/newyearfestival/new-year-symbols.html

*Fire Works

Bursting crackers and noise making fire-works are a popular image of New Year celebrations. It is said that use of noisy fire works on New Year's eve emerged from a popular belief of olden times that said noise and fire helped to dispel evil spirits and bring good luck. 

Source:http://www.happywink.org/newyearfestival/new-year-symbols.html

Ayee!!! We celebrate the New Year's day with rest of my family..

We ate at one of the famous Resto in our Place.. ^^

Share Meals With Loved Ones

• On Chinese New Year's Eve, enjoy a dinner with your family as a symbol of the closeness and intimacy you share. After dinner, herald in the New Year with your family.
• Keep a bowl filled with mandarin oranges on your table and offer them to every person that comes into your home during the New Year's celebration. Mandarin oranges are a symbol of prosperity, good fortune and longevity.
• On New Year's Day visit close relatives and have a meal together, enjoying foods that symbolize happiness and wealth. Give your teenagers and children ang-pows, which are small red packets filled with coins.
• During the following days of the New Year's celebration, visit friends and enjoy each other's company and your favorite foods.

Source:http://feng-shui.lovetoknow.com/New_Years_Good_Luck_Tips

At the Center table we have a 12 fruits... 12 different kinds of fruits..

I know that if you have this in your center table it will brings luck to your house but other than that, that's the least of my know how... heheheh... Here's are the other way explanation.

12 Fruits: Significance?

Before new year sets, I was wondering upon seeing people in the market, keeping themselves busy looking for a set of 12 different kinds of fruits for their table for the new year.
"What for?" I asked myself.
According to them, that is a tradition to anticipate a prosperous new year. Everyone should prepare 12 different kinds of fruits and put them on their table as the new year sets in.
These 12 different fruits represent a month of bounty, a month of prosperity, and a month of happiness. The fruits should be sweet in taste and good to eat. Sour tasting fruits should be set aside.
I want to know the spiritual implication of this practice. I refer it to the Bible and this is what I found in the Book of Revelation, Chapter 22, verse 2 of the King James Version:
"In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." (Revelation 22:2, KJV)
As I analyze it, it clearly says that the particular tree is having a fruit every month (not of different kinds of fruits and not from different trees) and its "leaves are for the healing of the nations".
Does it say different kinds of fruits? Does it say different kinds of trees"Nothing. Isn't it?
I search more and this what I found that the Catholics have their own way of determining what are the twelve fruits of the Holy Spirit. And I know them as Charity, Joy, Peace, Patience, Benignity, Goodness, Long-suffering (patient suffering over an extended period), Mildness, Faith, Modesty, Continency, and Chastity. Source:www.ourladyswarriors.org/faith/12fruits.htm
And I was being clarified from the point of view of Dr. Henry Morris in his "Tree of Life" dissertation. As what the Bible reveals in Revelations 22:2. He speaks about the tree of life which bares these 12 fruits. And there are "four wonderful truths" about this "Tree of Life". By the way, let's not be confused with the "Tree of Good and Evil" which Adam and Eve partook its fruits and were driven from the Garden of Eden. 
Morris points these truths as "true wisdom" about Christ (Proverbs 3:18), "fruit of the righteousness" (Proverbs 11:30), "desire" (Proverbs 13:12), and "wholesome tongue" (Proverbs 15:4).
Now I know and you know the spirituality and the truthfulness of these 12 fruits a Christian should have in their lives, and not those fruits of different trees as most have taken it literally.
It's time to break this false tradition of beliefs on the twelve fruits concept or idea. Take it or leave it.
Happy New Year!
Related Source: www.gilcamporazorandomthoughts.info/2012/12/12-round-of-fruits-truth-and-falsehood.html

source: http://www.bubblews.com/news/96545-significance-of-12-fruits-for-new-year

These are the some of the events that we traditionally do during new year's eve...

I hope some of my readers also have...

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