Saturday, 21 January 2012

BUYING NEW SHOES FOR THE LUNAR NEW YEAR


I always make sure not to buy any shoes during the 15 days of the Chinese New Year. I always buy mine before the new year.  This year I bought the two pairs of shoes pictured above.  Yeah!  I bought them in two colours.  Some Chinese consider buying a pair of new shoes during Chinese New Year as bad luck. The word "shoe" in Cantonese is a homophone for "rough" or "evil".  It also sounds like a sigh which is another taboo during Chinese New Year.

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