What to meet, what to cook for the table, how to decorate the house.
What to meet, what to cook for the table, how to decorate the house.
From childhood, a proverb familiar to all of us advises to prepare a sleigh in the summer, and in the winter - a cart, that is, take care of everything ahead of time. In order for the New Year holidays to be a success, it is also worth thinking about how to celebrate them, what to serve and what outfit to choose.
New Year 2017, what year of the animal
According to the Chinese calendar Xia, the New Year 2017 has a female Yin nature, the year is ruled by the element Fire and the zodiac animal Rooster. Thus, the new year 2017 is the year of the Fire Rooster (Yin), and its characteristics are determined by the symbols under whose control it is.
The rooster in Chinese mythology is a sign characterized by insight, organization, pedantry, responsibility, vigilance and exactingness. One of the most characteristic features of the Rooster is his conservatism and love of order. Therefore, in the year of the Fire Rooster, one should not expect revolutionary breakthroughs or global transformations. The Rooster will try to put things in order where the restless Monkey, the mistress of the previous year, made a mess.
For all its merits, the fiery Rooster can be arrogant and arrogant, stubborn, picky, vain and has a penchant for bravado. Therefore, 2017 the year of the Fire Rooster can be very successful for ambitious show projects and successful beginnings in the entertainment industry. But one should not expect significant breakthroughs in the scientific field this year, for this the conservative and arrogant Rooster will not have enough courage or patience.
The element of Fire in the new year 2017 will be softened by the nature of Yin, therefore, all international contradictions of the previous period will have to be mitigated: the opposing forces will finally begin to seek compromises and try to reach agreement. World systems (financial, economic, social and religious) will begin to order, strive for equilibrium and gaining balance.
The year 2017 of the Fire Rooster promises favorable conditions for the development of industries patronized by the element of Fire: the production of metal, electrical goods, show business, catering and the gas industry. Growth and stabilization of oil prices are forecasted. But for industries related to wood, the year will be unfavorable, since Fire destroys Wood. Problems can arise in the furniture industry, paper industry, publishing and bookselling, crop production and construction.
The Fire Rooster does not promise disasters related to earth or water in the new year of 2017: earthquakes, tsunamis, floods. But everything related to fire may well happen: volcanic eruptions, explosions or large fires.
In general, the new year 2017 is expected as a time of stabilization and ordering in the world, a time of attempts to come to an agreement, a time for people to realize responsibility for what they do, both at the level of their personal destiny and at the level of their countries and continents.
New Year 2017, what to celebrate
In our country, it has already become a tradition to choose an outfit for a New Year's party in accordance with the tastes of the zodiacal animal - the host of the coming year. And since the tradition has taken shape, let's find out what is better to wear to welcome the 2017 Year of the Fire Rooster.
The element of the new year 2017 is Fire, and this means that all shades of fiery color will be held in high esteem in festive outfits, it will be he who will have to set the tone for your image. In order to please the Rooster, it is not at all necessary to purchase or sew a dress of bright scarlet color. After all, if we look at the fire, we will see there a whole palette of colors from deep red to flashes of orange and yellow. So your festive outfit can be made from fabrics of any shade of red, yellow or orange, depending on which color suits you best. Red shades can be combined with emerald green, deep blue, deep brown or white.
At a New Year's party, any lady wants to shine, but do not forget about the Rooster's pragmatism and vanity. Consider these features when choosing an outfit for the New Year 2017, and do not spend too much on new clothes - a calculating Rooster will not like it. Do not wear, as the famous song says, "all the best at once", it will be too much - they may start laughing at you, and the vain Rooster does not like ridicule. What can be considered overkill in a festive look? It will be overkill if you wear jewelry, especially large ones, with a red dress. After all, a red dress is itself an object that attracts everyone's attention, and jewelry will only make your image cheap and vulgar. A dress with too many decorative details looks tasteless, and even worn with shoes with a twelve-centimeter stiletto heel. Remember also that complex, tall hairstyles instantly turn your look into "a la overkill", in addition, they will mature a lot. Refrain from excesses, try to dress in such a way that the outfit does not overshadow you, but only favorably emphasizes your dignity.
Astrologers advise in the New Year 2017 of the Fire Rooster to avoid clothes with "cat" prints: spotted leopard and striped tiger prints, since the Rooster does not favor the Cat too much. And do not wear silver for the holiday, the best choice would be gold or pearls. Well, and most importantly: in order not to look ridiculous, and this, as we remember, the Rooster does not like very much, choose a festive outfit in accordance with the venue of the party, the circle of guests and the degree of formality of the event. Agree, you will look funny at the festive table in the country, dressed in a long silk dress on the floor! A deep neckline or extreme mini will be completely inappropriate in the company of colleagues or in a circle where representatives of the older generation are present, for example, the parents of your boyfriend or husband.
Men can also please the Fire Rooster by wearing a bright tie in brown-red shades, gold cufflinks or a red-brown pullover for a holiday.
New Year 2017: what to cook? What should be on the table?
New Year's Eve dinner is not just a feast, it should be special, because it is not for nothing that they say: "As you meet the year, you will spend it." What to serve for the festive table for the New Year 2017?
When choosing a menu for a New Year's dinner, we will remember that the year of the Fire Rooster is coming, and the Rooster symbolizes homeliness and prosperity in Chinese mythology - which means that a festive dinner should be satisfying, but without excesses and excessive frills. Preference should be given to simple dishes, best of all if it is traditional national cuisine. In order not to upset the Rooster, it is better to exclude chicken dishes from the festive menu, as well as refuse to use semi-finished products and not serve canned foods for dinner.
As appetizers, you can offer guests salads traditional for the Russian festive table. If you want something original, then try serving the usual traditional dish in a new form, for example, cook the herring “under a fur coat” not in layers, but in the form of a roll. How decorate the salad for the new 2017 see... In addition to salads, serve veal jellied meat or jellied fish. Rolls of pancake dough with salmon or caviar, potato nests with meat or mushroom filling, tomatoes with mustard dressing, marinated fish or fish in batter will perfectly complement the festive dinner. On the eve of the Year of the Fire Rooster, it is better to serve grain bread to the table, and those housewives who would like to especially please the proud bird can prepare a salad with sprouted wheat, rye or lentils for a festive dinner.
On the hot side, you can cook fish, pork, beef or lamb. If you want to surprise your guests and are ready to spend at least two hours only on the preparation of the main course, then you can swing at the whole roasted suckling pig with potatoes and cabbage, lamb with green beans or stuffed pike. And if you want to prepare a delicious main course without spending too much time on it, then serve spicy veal with dried fruits, pork ribs in honey sauce, pike perch baked with vegetables or salmon in mustard sauce for a festive dinner. As a side dish for meat, you can serve baked potatoes, cabbage in tomato or sour cream sauce, stewed green beans or grilled vegetables. Fresh, baked or steamed vegetables, boiled or fried potatoes seasoned with parsley and celery, and crumbly rice are well suited to fish as a side dish.
The festive dinner in honor of the onset of 2017 of the Fire Rooster must certainly end with a dessert made from homemade pastries. It can be a fragrant homemade cookie cut in the shape of stars, the most delicate chocolate roll with nuts, or yoghurt cake. If you also want to serve a fruit dessert on the table, then keep it simple and unpretentious. This can be fruit salad, pears baked in wine, fresh strawberry crème brлеlée, or apples baked with honey in lingonberry sauce. As for drinks, the Rooster will highly appreciate the homemade fruit drinks and liqueurs served to the table.
New Year 2017, how to decorate a house
Interior design has a serious impact on a person's self-awareness and emotional state, which is why, in order to create a festive mood, we strive to decorate our home, to add variety to the familiar environment.
The owner of the new 2017, the Fire Rooster, is a lover of order, he is pedantic and neat in everything, therefore, before you start decorating the interior, you should arrange a general cleaning in the house. Disassemble things in closets and closets - throw out the trash, and carefully arrange the remaining items using modern storage systems. Move aside the furniture and remove the dust where it has been accumulating for months and where "hands did not reach" - and only then get down to the festive interior design.
The New Year 2017 of the Fire Rooster is best celebrated with family and friends in a house decorated with rustic elements. Do you have an embroidered pillow, a patchwork quilt, and crocheted towels somewhere in your closet? Wonderful, this is what you need. Get out a linen tablecloth and napkins, wicker baskets, clay pots, a bag of cloth scraps and a box of buttons - and start creating.
It is best to decorate the Christmas tree for the New Year 2017 in an eco-style - for this we hang beautifully decorated fresh and candied fruits, cookies baked in the form of various figures, gingerbread cookies, candies, cinnamon sticks tied with red ribbons, gilded cones and nuts on the branches. And under the Christmas tree next to Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden we put a figurine of a rooster and a clay pot with germinated grain.
You can also decorate the Christmas tree for the New Year 2017 with handmade toys. A Christmas tree decorated with figures cut out of felt will look great: it can be snowflakes, boots and mittens, snowmen, carnival masks, angels and much more, for which your imagination is enough. Well, if you are not ready for such experiments and want to dress up the Christmas tree quite traditionally, then give preference to toys and balls of red and golden shades, and make sure that there are no figures of predatory animals on the tree.
Complement the festive design with compositions of spruce paws and original decorated bouquets of dead wood twigs, and build a decorative nest in a conspicuous place. Put red apples, chocolate eggs and coins wrapped in gold foil in it to attract prosperity and good luck to your house in the coming year.
The table for a festive dinner can also be served using elements of rural life. This does not mean that guests should put wooden spoons and earthen bowls. The rooster will be quite pleased if you spread a beautiful linen tablecloth, put candles on the table in ceramic or wooden candlesticks, and place the guests' appliances in original envelopes made of thin burlap.
Children born in the year of the Fire Rooster
According to Chinese astrologers, the character and fate of each person is initially predetermined by the time of his birth, and in order to find out the fate, you need to calculate your personal binomial. This task is within the power of only specialists in horoscopes, however, only by one year of birth it is already possible to predict what personality traits a person will have, what abilities he will be gifted with and in what types of activities he will be most successful. What awaits the children born in the year of the Fire Rooster?
The Rooster is perhaps the most controversial and extraordinary zodiac character in the Chinese horoscope. On the one hand, he demonstrates imperiousness, straightforwardness, practicality and conservatism, a high degree of responsibility and organization, up to pedantry. On the other hand - demonstrativeness, vanity, boastfulness and captiousness. Although the Chinese astrologers find a fairly simple explanation for this: any positive quality in an exaggerated form begins to manifest itself as negative. So, excessive organization and love of order lead to picky in relation to others, and the downside of authority is despotism and vanity.
Children born in the year of the Fire Rooster, depending on the month, day and hour of birth, can show themselves either as calm, somewhat reserved, sedate, judicious and prudent personalities, or as sociable, easy-going with a well-developed intuition, but somewhat windy people ... The former will be able to prove themselves and achieve success in such professions that are associated with technology, as well as where perseverance, accuracy and scrupulousness are required. These are engineers, designers, IT specialists, programmers and architects. The second need to be given the opportunity to show their demonstrative nature and satisfy their need to be in the center of attention. Such children in the future will be able to realize themselves in the best possible way in creative professions or sports. These are future talented actors, dancers, singers and directors, journalists and radio presenters, preachers, showmen and athletes. These children need to be given the opportunity to realize their desire to be the object of everyone's attention as early as possible - depending on their inclinations, take them to a dance or sports school, to a circus or to a theater studio.
Children born in the Year of the Fire Rooster really need praise in order to feel comfortable and confident. Parents of children born under the sign of the Rooster need to remember that their children are very touchy, hypersensitive to criticism, especially when expressed in a tactless form, and it is very difficult for them to manage their anger. Therefore, adults should very carefully choose their words, criticizing the behavior of a baby born under the sign of the Rooster, not to be afraid of violent manifestations of rage and teach the child to properly discharge his anger so as not to harm others.
Characteristics of the new year 2017 according to the Chinese horoscope
The Chinese horoscope, which defines each year as "belonging" to a particular animal, was created more than four centuries ago. In the Celestial Empire, a horoscope based on dividing time into cycles and assigning certain characteristics to each cycle was taken very seriously. So, the Chinese emperor did not make a single more or less major decision without checking the calendar and horoscope, and before marriage, it was found out with the help of personal horoscopes whether the newlyweds would be compatible, and only then the decision about the wedding was made.
In the original, the Chinese horoscope has a rather complex structure. It is based on the ten-year cycle "trunks of Heaven" (five elements) and the twelve-year cycle "branches of the Earth" (zodiacal animals). The ten-year cycle is based on the fact that for two years life is governed by one of five elements, each of which has its own color. Element Metal is assigned white, element Wood - green. The Water element is colored blue, the Fire element is bright red, and the Earth element is yellow or brown.
In the twelve-year cycle, each year is given to the "reign" of one of the twelve zodiacal animals, in addition, each year carries a male (Yang) or female (Yin) principle. Yang is activity, striving for leadership, purposefulness. Yin - passivity, contemplation, acceptance and caring. A year in the power of Yin or Yang has the corresponding characteristics, harmoniously combined with the traits of the zodiacal animal - the owner of the year. The result is the following sequence, which repeats every 12 years: Year of the Rat (Yang), then Buffalo (Yin), then Tiger (Yang), Rabbit (Yin), Dragon (Yang), Snake (Yin), then Horse (Yang), Goats (Yin), Monkeys (Yang), Rooster (Yin), Dogs (Yang), and finally Pigs (Yin).
From the ten-year cycle of the elements and the twelve-year cycle of the zodiacal animals, a sixty-year cycle is formed, according to which it is possible to determine the fate of a person and the character of each year in the cycle. To determine the nature of the new 2017, you need to know the element, the zodiac animal and the beginning that this year carries. To determine the fate of a person, the ordinal number of the year of birth in ten-year and twelve-year cycles, signs of the month, day and hour of birth are calculated. This binom, according to the teachings of the Chinese astrologers, completely determines the personality, character and destiny of a person.
New Year 2017 according to the Chinese system, this is the year of the Fire Rooster. The element of 2017 is Fire, the beginning is Yin, and himself year of the Fire Rooster will start on January 28, 2017... In accordance with the Chinese horoscope, the characteristic of 2017 will consist of the female nature of Yin, the fire element and the characteristics of the owner of the coming year - the Rooster.