http://asiansupper.com/taxonomy/term/1489/0/feed en http://asiansupper.com/theslurp/%E2%80%9Clucky%E2%80%9D-recipes-chinese-new-year <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-blog-entry-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/theslurp/%E2%80%9Clucky%E2%80%9D-recipes-chinese-new-year" class="imagecache imagecache-recipe_top_Featured imagecache-linked imagecache-recipe_top_Featured_linked"><img src="http://asiansupper.com/files/imagecache/recipe_top_Featured/blog_entry_uploads/promo/tum/912984_82106702.jpg" alt="" title="" width="340" height="250" class="imagecache imagecache-recipe_top_Featured"/></a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-blog-entry-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Ring in a healthy, happy 2012 with these Chinese New Year recipes filled with foods that symbolize fortune, prosperity, and good health </div> </div> </div> <p class="small content">&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal small content">All elements of Chinese New Year, especially the cuisine, point to prosperity and luck. Celebrations were born out of a fear of the Nian, a mythical beast that would come to villages on the first day of the new year and eat livestock, crops, and even small children. To distract the beast, villagers would place food outside their doors and hang red lanterns and scrolls on windows and doors, as the bright color was believed to frighten the creature. </p> <p><a href="http://asiansupper.com/theslurp/%E2%80%9Clucky%E2%80%9D-recipes-chinese-new-year" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://asiansupper.com/theslurp/%E2%80%9Clucky%E2%80%9D-recipes-chinese-new-year#comments asian holidays chinese holidays chinese new year chinese new year food Holidays Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:53:18 +0000 hollis 1193 at http://asiansupper.com