Dragon Year

Beijing Airport
2024 is the year of the Wood DragonHow to give a New Year greeting in Mandarin, or Cantonese.
There will be dragons in Bath all this year – very appropriate as they are water creatures!
Article on the origin of dragons.

The number nine is associate with dragons and there are many nine-dragon walls in China., eg in Beihai Park, Beijing and this Ming one in Datong.  Urban dragons – How Cities Across China Are Welcoming the Dragon.  Meet the Dragon King.

Door Gods are an important feature of Lunar New Year.

We mentioned Hokusai’s drawings before.  Here is a project to make new woodblock prints from his drawings, including a splendid dragon – it would be wonderful to have one!

Warning – this “dragon chicken” looks grotesque, but is apparently edible.

Door God in Yunnan, 2016