{"id":17575,"date":"2025-01-29T07:48:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/?p=17575"},"modified":"2025-01-29T07:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T07:48:55","slug":"happy-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/happy-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"722\" src=\"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250129-happy-new-year-8816575_1280-1024x722.jpg\" alt=\"20250129 happy new year 8816575 1280\" class=\"wp-image-17578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250129-happy-new-year-8816575_1280-1024x722.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250129-happy-new-year-8816575_1280-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250129-happy-new-year-8816575_1280-768x541.jpg 768w, https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250129-happy-new-year-8816575_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What does the Snake symbolise in Chinese culture?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, the metaphors and meaning of the Snake in Chinese literature and mythology are polar opposites. On the one hand, the snake belongs to the yin, associated with darkness, dampness and femininity. Poisonous snakes are often associated with evil women who seduce men and suck their yang to nourish their yin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, snakes also have positive symbolism. For example, they are regarded as little dragons (xiaolong&nbsp;\u5c0f\u9f8d), and the skin snakes shed is referred to as the dragon\u2019s coat (longyi&nbsp;\u9f8d\u8863), symbolising good luck, rebirth and regality. The snake also symbolises the pursuit of love and happiness, a theme beautifully illustrated in the traditional folk tale, \u2018The Legend of the White Snake\u2019. The snake can also represent wealth and wisdom, and in traditional Chinese culture, they are often grouped with the turtle and the crane as a symbol of longevity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: Xiaohuan Zhao, University of Sydney<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly, the metaphors and meaning of the Snake in Chinese literature and mythology are polar opposites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":17578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"brand":[45,97],"class_list":["post-17575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","brand-chemtech-en","brand-icap-leather-chem-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17584,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17575\/revisions\/17584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17575"},{"taxonomy":"brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icapleather.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/brand?post=17575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}