The “weird” Spring Festival couplets are so funny that you must not understand the rules when paying New Year greetings; New Year greetings from Tsai Ing-wen, Lai Qingde and Xiao Meiqin; China’s economy is in dire straits, and Shanghai Pudong Development Bank makes a fortune; the gold rush era is completely over, and many people will return to poverty in 2024. (Provided by “Current Affairs Scan”)
[The Epoch Times, February 10, 2024]Hello everyone, welcome to “Current Affairs Gold Scan”. I am Jin Ran. It’s the Year of the Dragon. First of all, I wish you all a happy New Year, peace and health, and good luck in the Year of the Dragon!
Today’s focus: Various “weird” Spring Festival couplets are too funny, and the rules of New Year greetings you don’t know; Tsai Ing-wen brings cats and dogs to celebrate the New Year, and the highlights of Lai Qingde and Xiao Meiqin’s New Year greetings; China’s economic downturn cannot be stopped, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank “will not issue a year-end letter to make a fortune” ”; The gold rush era is completely over, and many people will return to poverty in 2024.
“Wonderful” Spring Festival couplets are too funny to wish you a happy new year, so you don’t understand the rules
In the last episode, I talked about some of the particularities of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Chinese New Year. A friend corrected me a bit. According to tradition, the first couplet of the Spring Festival couplets should indeed be posted on the right side of the door. Well, as we start today, it’s the Chinese New Year and I’d like to make everyone laugh. Let’s take a look at the “weird” Spring Festival couplets among the many.
Some Spring Festival couplets are about letting yourself go. The first couplet: The world is so big; the second couplet: I want to see it; I guess it was a banner carried by his wife: Look at the wallet first!
This piece belongs to the henpecked show of affection. The first line: Loving you is an important thing; the second line: Say important things three times; the horizontal line is: Hey hey hey. It’s really three times, but can you please be more careful when showing your affection? The upper and lower couplets are both uneven.
The following couplets are obviously written by primary school students who were forced by their teachers. The first couplet is: 2+2+2=6; the second couplet is also: 2+2+2=6. Don’t tell me, it uses an odd and auspicious number. . The horizontal couplet is: 1+1=2; the place with the word “福” in the middle is probably the limit of the arithmetic he learned: 3+3+3=9, which also corresponds to long and lasting, full marks!
Let’s take a look at two Spring Festival couplets that are both professional and proud.
The first line is: Relying on parents is a small public achievement; the second line is: Relying on husband is silly and sweet; banner: Relying on oneself is an internet celebrity. A pair of Spring Festival couplets brought the whole family together, and also showed off their own pride, amazing!
The following is a purely professional pride sticker. The first line: You obviously rely on your face to make a living; the second line: You rely on your talent to start a business; the horizontal line: Professional sticker. You actually combine Spring Festival couplets with pride and advertising. Keep up the good work, I’m optimistic about you!
I can go on and on about this kind of content, but I still have more to say. Here are two more bizarre Spring Festival couplets that you must have never seen before.
Unexpectedly, Spring Festival couplets have already become popular among foreigners? Someone actually wrote an English couplet. The upper line is: eat well sleep well have fun day by day; the lower line is: study hard work hard make money more and more; the horizontal line is: Gelivable; the translation is, the upper line: eat well, sleep well, and play every day; the lower line is: It means: learn to do well and you will get piles of money; the horizontal comment means: Awesome!
The characteristic of this Spring Festival couplet is not the Spring Festival couplet itself, but the way the door gods of the two sides stick it up, as if their eyes are facing each other. In Northeast China, the translation is: “What are you looking at?” “What are you looking at?”
Tsai Ing-wen, Lai Qingde and Xiao Meiqin’s New Year greetings
On New Year’s Eve, President Tsai Ing-wen of the Republic of China and the incoming President-elect Lai Qingde and Vice President Xiao Meiqin all sent greeting cards, and they all unexpectedly let their pets share the stage.
On New Year’s Eve, Tsai Ing-wen sent a greeting card with cats and puppies, saying: The Lunar New Year is coming, and I would like to thank friends from all over the world for their continued support of Taiwan. Happy Year of the Dragon to everyone!
Lai Ching-de and Xiao Meiqin, who had just won the presidential election, also released New Year’s Eve custom-dressed photos. The two were smiling. Lai Ching-de was holding a “bark” and Xiao Meiqin was holding a “meow”. This time, both cats and dogs were taken into consideration. I think you rarely see how the elected president and vice president cooperate in taking New Year photos in the audience, right? In addition to taking the Spring Festival couplets “All things prosper” from the presidential palace, these two people also had to make various cooperations to see what a democratically elected president should look like.
Traditionally, people return to their hometown to reunite with their families during the Chinese New Year. Taiwan President-elect Lai Ching-te went to New Taipei City to buy incense and pray for blessings on New Year’s Eve, and even distributed blessing bags to fellow villagers.
When Lai Qingde returned to his hometown, he first went to the temple to pray for blessings and burn incense, and then sent lucky bags to the villagers in front of the temple. Each lucky bag contained NT$1. Lai Qingde’s cousin and childhood classmates also came to receive the red envelopes, so that he It was quite a surprise, and everyone was welcome to sign and take selfies with them. In addition to going to his second brother’s house for lunch at noon, Lai Qingde also rushes home to have a reunion dinner with his family on New Year’s Eve.
When the New Year comes, it will involve visiting relatives and giving gifts. If you don’t understand etiquette, you may turn a good thing into a bad thing. So let’s talk about the rules of New Year greetings. There is a common saying among the people: “If you don’t leave after three relatives, you won’t return after two greetings.” This “three relatives don’t leave” means that you don’t have to go with relatives you haven’t contacted for a long time. Going there will bring embarrassment and burden to both parties; second, you don’t go with relatives who look down on you. Since they look down on you, it’s better to have less contact. Keep a respectful distance; the third is that this relative who is sick in bed needs to rest and recuperate, so do not visit during the Chinese New Year to avoid disturbing others. It is not too late to visit the other person after he recovers.
“Two gifts and no return” means: when returning a gift, do not return a gift of low value. Chinese people pay attention to reciprocity. When returning a gift, you should give a gift of similar value or slightly higher value. Another thing is not to return odd-numbered gifts when returning gifts. Traditionally, even-numbered gifts are considered auspicious. As the saying goes, good things come in pairs!
China’s economy is in dire straits. Shanghai Pudong Development Bank’s fortune letter
In China, although it has just experienced a series of stock market crashes and extreme weather attacks such as blizzards, and although the economic environment is poor, in some big cities, such as Beijing, the authorities have made great efforts to create a New Year atmosphere, and people also hope to experience it through celebrating the New Year. The atmosphere of the New Year can get rid of bad luck, bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, but the mood is very different from last year’s New Year.
Ms. Yu, who works for a foreign company in Beijing, recalled that during the Chinese New Year last year, when the epidemic was fully relaxed, everyone thought that everything would be fully restored, and everyone was very optimistic. But one year has passed and the New Year has arrived. Ms. Yu told VOA that things may be worse in the future, and she just wants to live well now and live cautiously.
Recently, the famous magazine “The Economist” reported that the Chinese stock market has shocked investors this year. The Chinese and Hong Kong stock markets have evaporated US$1.5 trillion in January alone. If compared with the peak set in 2021, the Chinese and Hong Kong stock markets US$7 trillion has evaporated, a drop of 35%. During the same period, the US stock market rose by 14% and the Indian stock market rose by 60%. The Economist pointed out a surprising phenomenon: foreign investors no longer like the Chinese market.
In recent months, not only foreign capital, but also China’s own investors have also lost confidence. The property and financial investment of wealthy Chinese people have declined, and a large amount of Chinese capital is flowing out. So, how bad is China’s economic situation? Shanghai Pudong Development Bank’s recent practice of “not issuing year-end bonuses but getting family letters” is a representative incident.
Chinese people who work in banks know that year-end bonuses are a very important income for bank employees. An employee of Shanghai Pudong Development Bank revealed that in previous years, bonuses would start in December and be paid out before the Chinese New Year. , but it is very likely that the year-end bonus will not be issued this year. Instead, all employees will be given a “letter home” and a condolence payment of 2,000 yuan.
Someone revealed that the bank adopts a basic salary + year-end bonus model. I checked and found that the year-end bonuses in previous years were between RMB 50,000 and RMB 80,000. The annual income of ordinary employees basically depends on year-end bonuses. Hundreds of thousands of employees work in vain all year round, and what they are looking forward to is a letter from home. With market conditions like this, do you still have any hope for the future?
After this incident became a hot topic, some people sarcastically asked: Is this the case – is a letter from home worth ten thousand yuan? Others said: China Construction Bank (that is, China Construction Bank) doesn’t even have a letter from home!
Will many people return to poverty in 2024?
Recently, a popular article appeared on a Chinese forum called “Many People Will Return to Poverty in 2024,” which listed the bursting of the mainland real estate bubble as the first to be brought back to its original shape.
The article pointedly pointed out the reality of Chinese society: “This is a society full of filth. What is most likely to be spread on the Internet are all kinds of ugly performances and all kinds of extreme emotions. The more erroneous people are, the easier it is for them to become popular quickly. This It is an era of entertainment to death. Young people are addicted to games and entertainment, adults are indulgent in live broadcasts and short videos, and everyone is addicted to short-term and quick happiness. This is a society full of violence, and people are becoming more and more depressed. , confusion, anxiety, and depression. Many people appear to be normal, but in fact they are riddled with holes inside, just like a time bomb that is about to explode.”
In 2024, people have to face a reality. People in some fields will be brought back to their original shape, including: the dream of the real estate market is shattered and the Internet dividend disappears. Even Internet giants have begun to lay off employees for the winter. Making money through the Internet will become more and more difficult. Disaster. At the same time, all Chinese entrepreneurs and bosses, big and small, will face: broken capital chains and contract breaches; the disappearance of cheap labor; increasingly thinning profits; the normalization of the epidemic, and ultimately the complete arrival of involution.
The final assertion of the article: If you come out to fool around, you will pay it back sooner or later. From now on, many speculators will return to poverty.
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