CNY is a time when families come together; Where joy and laughter filled the air; Which is why we will always have themes of reunion, kids and the lion dances! Welcome to another chapter of colorful fun times.
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The ones with family reunion, kids and lion dances from Paramount Property, SP Advisory and Nissan Tan Chong Group. If you like the rooster bowl from Paramount Property, hop over to see a few more of these classic ceramic bowls under my Feathered Friends (click here).
Quicktouch picnic celebration is a 6pcs picture perfect family set with a beautiful garden setting and decorated lanterns. Other sets with lanterns and lion dance are Culture Guru 5pcs set, GDEX 4pcs set and SMM Education Group mouth watering reunion dinner 4pcs set.
~ Reunion Dinner ~
Another round table family reunion theme that was very popular back in 2015 was Pureen 6pc set and that was when I first started my collection full swing. The set I have was a gift from my uncle and I remembered it was such a happy moment then. I was of course extremely looking forward to 2016 for their red packets but was told by a collector who happens to work for Pureen that the boss found out people were making money from selling the red packets to collectors thus decided to stop printing any in 2016. Pureen must have realized that the red packets does help sales and hence 2017, they are back with a 8pc cartoon characters of the Chinese Kingdom Dynasty which I absolutely adore. Welcome back PUREEN!
Family, Families...
Cadbury continued with their joyous family set from 5pc in 2016 to a 6pc set but with less details while maintaining their purple corporate color. 2015 still has the best design and definitely a bigger set (8pcs) in terms of number of pieces. Which year is your favorite?
Family pharmacy has the perfect reason to use the family theme for their 6pc set with Chinese wordings backing and lion dance. Also a 6pc family set is Zhuoyuan with 3 different floral background for each generation. Next up is Singapore Petroleum Company aka SPC and Unilever both featuring family size of just four, without the grandparents. Another family of four with two big Fu福eggs and cute little chicks surrounding them is Fullhouse delightful pair.
Family pharmacy has the perfect reason to use the family theme for their 6pc set with Chinese wordings backing and lion dance. Also a 6pc family set is Zhuoyuan with 3 different floral background for each generation. Next up is Singapore Petroleum Company aka SPC and Unilever both featuring family size of just four, without the grandparents. Another family of four with two big Fu福eggs and cute little chicks surrounding them is Fullhouse delightful pair.
If you are wondering where the header design is from, it's Xi Xian Sheng 喜先生; A subtle and beautiful background of wordings, it's thick paper quality of 3 family generation is just pleasantly joyful to admire. Two other 3 generation reunion is from Liansin pair which is going horizontal this year instead of their usual portrait layout and Synergy singleton using a soft velvety paper.
Both of Capitaland 2016 & 2017 have similar kids~family theme; I particularly like the tiny lion dances very much. BSN too joined in the fun with it's single but lively piece. Seamaster paint family is looking sweet in four different color theme. The exact same family is also found in another packet... you can find it here (FB post May 17, 2017).
Both of Capitaland 2016 & 2017 have similar kids~family theme; I particularly like the tiny lion dances very much. BSN too joined in the fun with it's single but lively piece. Seamaster paint family is looking sweet in four different color theme. The exact same family is also found in another packet... you can find it here (FB post May 17, 2017).
SUSHI FAMILY
I fell in love with Sushi Tie five adorable sushi characters when I saw and remembered that there was something similar before. A senior collector offered the 2015 Sushi Express for trade but I was more into floral sets then. That was two years ago when I had just started to trade within the Chinese angpow group. Only after some time later I realized I missed the boat and have been hunting for them ever since until recently I managed to exchange a set successfully with another collector. It was double the joy when my dearest collector friend sent me the 2017 and now I can have them both side by side. Sushi anyone?
More cuteness coming our way from Country Garden and their English Soldiers. Danga Bay comes in a casing with a joyful window view of the four individual soldiers all dressed up literally from their very tall hat to the shoes while Diamond City has five soldiers wearing Tsum Tsum as their tall hat (also known as bearskin) and they are quite a delightful lot. Before we see the children, let's adore the baby who is looking cute and smart in his black tie and suit, the Boss Baby to be exact from MM Cineplexes and he is definitely the financial expert for the year, bringing lots of happy fortune!
Just Kids...
Lays is back with an adorable 8pcs set; 4pcs kids and 4pcs lions' dance, both comes in a soft cover casing. Hunted for the promoter during CNY. All that chasing was to no avail so in the end got them from my sidekick collector friend! G8 Education Singapore below printed their joyful pair of kids in four different colors, purple, blue, red and orange while Aljunied Hougang Town Council showed us a different shade of colors, the harmony from children of multiracial. We have few local kids sets from Q-Dees; Guardian, Sony Bravia and Art Square all three with traditional Chinese buildings in the background. Not forgetting Nissan Tan Chong and GDEX from the top (scroll up to find them) or check out 1 Utama, Delica, Deluxe Group, Sky World and One Morning, the other packets that are using building structures as well at my 2017 home page.
Above GDEx, Lays, Q-dees, Guardian, Maica, Sony Bravia & Art Square all have another common theme which is the joyful lion dancing and so are the ones below. First up we have the 6pc sets, one of my favorite Sutera Mall and the other from Optical 88, Bao Zhan has the similar garden settings like Sutera Mall but only 3pcs, next a colorful 5pc lion dance head from Hurix's vs Wildage also using the lion head but as flaps and shimmering in gold; a simple 4pc set from TF Value Mart, two adorable 4pc set from Sorganic & Hong Wen Guan, delightful pairs from Iconic and Juice Works, and not forgetting the single designs from Loudspeaker, Brain-Zone, Tonton, Signcotive, KK Group, Canton Kitchen, Sunshine, KYB, Muzic and Gong Cha.
Definitely a rare character on any angpow is the giraffe and both Hong Wen Guan and Novamil each have their own long-necked cud-chewing hoofed mammals with long legs and a coat pattern of irregular brown patches on a light background. Giraffes are the tallest of all land animals and Novamil is standing quite tall with a top-bottom adjoining three story house with their god of fortune, reunion meal and lion dancing.
Moving on to a lighter tone and shimmery look is Wildage four front lion dance head flap while my latest addition to the lion dancing family is none other than the beautiful lions from SGX.Check out the other SGX lions over at my 2019 Lion City or more lion dancing motif over at the 2018 lion dancing page.
More lion dancing theme from adorable pairs to delightful singles all here to celebrate the crowing rooster year. Iconic is always a popular design among collectors and I am a fan, quite a challenge to trade if you ask me so do watch out for the other years as they are all beautiful. Potensi Jaya was a freebie from a collector in Johor and I only got them in 2020, just nice the timing for my last batch of uploads. Juice Works is another adorable duo, unique as they are slim in size and can you spot where the lion dance is? Do browse through and admire the singles, each lion dance is graceful and just a treat for the eyes.
Here comes the bunnies, Merries guardian bunnies to be exact. While their Singapore pair has the lion dance celebrating the new year, Malaysia die-cut set of four has my vote with those side floral extension. Do you know that Merries bunnies are invincible to adults but not to the babies? One is cheerful and the other perky and they are always bringing smiles to our little ones.
Besides the bunnies we have more cartoon characters joining the CNY celebration. Dumex brought us seven friends, Comfy, Poope, Spongy, Mr Defence, Growy, Brainy and Happi all ready to take good care of the little ones. The penguins and fox from Downtown East, Pororo and his friends delivered fortunes and blessing to all and the chipmunks, Mickey and Minnie from Disney Tsum Tsum by Klennex are also joining the celebration.
Next are the adorable singles; The sweet Je'Reine girl in purple with a little rooster taking the place of the number zero in the 2017 year while the hug-able bear from Teddy Ville pops up in a red piece to bring prosperity (fu) to all. Here comes D-Link and it's wireless friends all ready to celebrate the new year with the lucky rooster. More delightful chicks joining the fun below, from NPG, MiFun, WCT Malls, Super Dining.
Above we have more single designs, the fun and cute Singapore series; Dunkin Donuts, Caltex, Claymore, Texas. Shin Min, Buffet Town, Way Feng Shui, Paris Miki. I couldn't resist Dunkin cute lil' monkeys as well as those lovely buildings at the background so decided to put them up with this year rooster crowing on the roof while the boy and girl happily showing their donuts through the window. I do not have their 2015 design which is the same as Malaysia just different flap design while 2014 has the similar donut face of the sun in 2017. I still quite like them side by side.
The delightful pairs are up next starting with 85cafe standalone design of the floral butterfly and the big white chicken while Mr Bean sweeter pair in soft pink and baby blue is dancing along happily with the little yellow hens. Sun Plaza has a fun pair too with a slightly shorter and rounder white rooster looking at it's slimmer and taller pink partner.
Next up from our neighboring Singapore are the children from Pursoft twelve girls all dressed up in their zodiac suits to Ajisen boy and girl enjoying their bowl of ramen. We also have DBS, OCBC Mighty Savers, Honeyworld Holidays, Mister Potato and One Kentridge all adorably paired up with better print quality as always.
Another happy kids pair from Singapore, happy times at Timezone. While locally we have the cutie pies in pink and red from Toyota and a pretty vibrant trio from Yakult; Take a closer look and you can see that they all have smiley (closed) eyes, including the ones from Singapore above.
Papa rooster
mama hen
baby chicks
Meet the chicken families from Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall Singapore, Super, Jointwell, Toshiba and Mi Sedaap. Sun Yat Sen orange and red chicken family pair used their memorial hall and floral prints in the background. Super is a 4pcs set and comes in two different soft cover casing. They are good quality packets and was one of the earliest design I came to know of even before they were released to the public. Jointwell is just a single design but is adorable with its front flap Mr & Mrs Chicken and four lovable little darlings named Ji, Xiang, Ru & Yi inside. Toshiba has its family of five in a 3pc set while Mi Sedaap pair has a bigger family of eight.
After a satisfying bowl of Mi Sedap, time to have something Italian maybe? How about pizza from Pezzo, specially delivered to us by their four big and strong roosters.
Hop over to "Feathered Friends" & "Egg Surprise" for few other chicken family sets with eggs.
Hop over to "Feathered Friends" & "Egg Surprise" for few other chicken family sets with eggs.
The lucky Food family
The Chinese word for fish (鱼 Yú) sounds like 'surplus' or ‘abundance’. 年年有余 (nián nián yǒu yú) is a wish for others to always have more than they need in the New Year. Eating sweets (糖果 Tángguǒ) during the Lunar New Year represents bringing sweet happenings to coming year or starting the new year on a sweet note. Fluffy and dense, these cakes are known as prosperity cakes or rice flour cakes (發糕 Fāgāo) when baked, they split on top and "blossom." The more petals have blossomed, the more prosperous you will be. Rice cake (年糕 Nián gāo) is a sticky rice cake made from glutinous rice flour and sugar. Because “gao” sounds like ‘high’ in mandarin, eating the cake symbolizes achieving new heights in the coming year. Pistachios (开心果 Kāixīn guǒ) are often given as a gift during the Chinese New Year as a symbol of health, happiness and good fortune. Pineapple tarts (凤梨 Fènglí) besides being a buttery favourite for many, the Hokkien pronunciation “Ong Lai” refers to the arrival of prosperity. Since they bear an uncanny resemblance to ingots (Yuan Bao), the old Chinese currency, dumplings (饺子 Jiǎozi) symbolize wealth and profit. Longevity noodles (长寿面 Chángshòu Miàn) signify the eater's long life and a wish for longevity. Sweet rice ball (汤圆 Tāngyuán) are associated with reunion and being together. 团团圆圆 (Tuántuán yuányuán) means Happy (family) reunion! Yu Sheng (魚生; yúshēng) translates to "raw fish", the raw fish salad is typically set up with each ingredient chosen for its symbolic meaning. Family and friends gather round to toss the salad vigorously while exchanging well-wishes and auspicious phrases. They say that the higher you toss the salad, the greater your fortunes will be. Another lucky food is peanuts (花生Huāshēng), which symbolize wishes for a long life is also common and popular. Characterised by their loose and peel-able skin, mandarin oranges (橘子 Júzi), also known as tangerines, are believed to bring prosperity thanks to its Cantonese pronunciation "kum" which sounds similar to the word for gold. The Mandarin pronunciation for orange is 橙 (chéng), which sounds the same as 'success' (成).
Daesco twelve chubby roosters are serving us the auspicious foods that bring fortune for Chinese New Year. After learning the lucky meaning behind each of the twelve traditional yummy goodies above, it's time to meet the twelve zodiac family. First up from Fong Shen Trading, a 4pcs set that comes in delightful screen folder while from Bank of China Singapore is a 12pcs adjoining garden set with each of the animal's Chinese character printed behind the packet. Do hop over to get a closer view of these adorable zodiac as well as the other zodiac sets from my Chinese Zodiac collection (click here).
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