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Garment – Kaushal Kishore

 

Humans, with minds so keen,

Don clothes to remain unseen…

Yet language, a garment so fine,

If not worn with finesse, reveals the design…

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In attire so costly, adorned they may be,

But words laid bare expose humanity…

Intelligence, a precious gift they hold,

Yet language is the cloth, both warm and bold…

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–Kaushal Kishore 

Source: Garment – Kaushal Kishore

Happy Lunar New Year: 2024 is The Year of the Dragon 🐉 | From Behind the Pen

Image Credit: Dương Nhân

Commonly known as the Spring Festival in China, the Lunar New Year is a fifteen-day celebration marked by many traditions. At home, families decorate windows with red paper cuttings and adorn doors with couplets expressing auspicious wishes for the new year. Shopping for holiday sundries in open-air markets and cleaning the house are also beloved traditions. The Lunar New Year’s Eve reunion dinner is the highlight that kicks off the holiday, a feast with a spread of symbolic dishes, such as a whole fish representing abundance, that bring good luck and fortune. The fifteenth and final day of the holiday is the Lantern Festival, during which people have tangyuan, or sweet glutinous rice balls, and children carry lanterns around the neighborhood at night to mark the end of the celebration. (Reference: Smithsonian National Museum of Asian Arts, https://asia.si.edu/whats-on/events/celebrations/lunar-new-year-celebration/)

Image Credit: Angga Ferdinand 

Source: Happy Lunar New Year: 2024 is The Year of the Dragon 🐉 | From Behind the Pen