Feb 3, 04:53 pm
Week Five: In Search of ... Wang Wang
The text reads: January 29th 2006 ushers in the Year of The Fire Dog. What Westerners hear as “Woof Woof” the Chinese hear as “Wang Wang,” and “Wang” is also a Chinese word for prosperity. So Wang Wang is a way of offering wishes for a prosperous year of the dog.
But I’m so confused! Some Chinese horoscopes say 2006 will be a great year for those born under the sign of the Dog, others predict a hell year. Some Chinese companies are rumored not to be hiring Dog people in an attempt to avoid the associated bad luck.
So I was all stoked up about the year of the dog, being it’s also a Jupiter in Scorpio year. Wow, this must mean double good luck, I thought. And some Chinese horoscopes do promise a groovy year. But then I started reading the more dismal prophecies about the challenges awaiting dogs this year and freaked out. I really can’t cope with another crap year, I feel like a stretched out rubber band already. This whole damned doomed dog deal is now bothering me far more than it should … then again we dogs do dwell on stuff and worry over problems like we’re drawing on bones.
Anyway, the Chinese believe you should have flowers, preferably blooming, in the house to welcome in the new year. I bought this potted tulip, which bloomed on Lunar New Year’s Day. Surely some lovely Wang Wang is coming my way? How can anything having to do with Dogs be bad?
Made this with photos, assorted odds and ends, Tombats dingbats and a selection of fortunes from fortune cookies. One fortune reads: “Alas! The onion you are eating is someone else’s water lily.”
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