The
Year of the Horse
Chinese
New Year
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| White horse galloping( difficult to paint) |
On
January 31. many Asian countries and especially China, will celebrate
the Chinese New year which is based on the lunar calendar . There
will be many festivities with dragons and lanterns and lots of
firecrackers and many people will be celebrating the Year of the
Horse
I don't know where I saw this horse photo but I tried to paint it and it was difficult. The legs don't seem right and a white horse is hard!!
So why the year of the horse? Why not the year of the giraffe or cow?
The
legend of the naming of the year came about like this:
Buddha
decided to give a party to celebrate the New Year. He invited the
animals to come and 12 did. And a year was named after each one.
Buddha then said that the person born during the animal's year would
take on the some of the personalities of that animal. The people
born in the year of the horse will be cheerful, skillful with money,
perceptive, witty, talented and good with their hands. Some of the
well known people that have been born in previous Years of the Horse
are Harrison Ford, Rembrandt, Aretha Franklin and Chopin.
I was
born in the year of the OX as was Mike. You can go here to find out
your Chinese astrological sign
Good job with the horse galloping, not an easy subject, as you say the legs are so difficult to understand.
ReplyDeleteJust found out I was born in the year of the tiger, don't know what that means!
John
Wow good for you white horse looks great, how long did it take you? I think we
ReplyDeleteall agree now horse legs are for the birds!