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| You can find Chinese Style by Sunamita Lim (call number NK2115.5 .E84 L56 2006) on the new books shelf. |
Looking to welcome New Year’s on our Southwest
high desert with design symbols inviting good fortune? Then turn to Chapter 4
of a new acquisition, Chinese Style:
Living in Beauty and Prosperity, that’s also timely in ushering Chinese New
Year of the Snake come February 10, 2013.
How so, you ask?
Well, since ancient Greece to modern medical
symbolism, this slithery icon represents sloughing off old molting skin and
inviting fresh, new beginnings with healing energy.
For fun, invoke Chinese design symbols embellished
by centuries-old blessings such as:
◦ Flowers for wealth, and as well, fulfilling
higher career aspirations
◦ Living, thriving plants for new growth and
rebirth
◦ Bamboo for resilience, flexibility and
utility (from flooring to utensils)
◦ Pine for steadfastness, endurance and
longevity (furniture, plantings)
The Chinese value living life to a ripe old age
as symbolized by eating for prosperity, as in good health and wealth. Thus New
Year feasting invokes abundance in dishing up:
◦ Chicken (the whole bird) for
prosperity and family oneness
◦ Fish, served whole, and ditto similar
virtues
◦ Noodles for long life
◦ Oranges for good fortune
◦ Lettuce for evergreen wealth (yay,
greenbacks!)
In Chinese culture, while eating itself is an
epicurean adventure, food is also considered medicine, as the Chinese have
survived centuries of warfare by prevailing on food for healing. Tellingly,
Hippocrates (father of modern medicine) advocated: “Let food be thy medicine.” Indeed,
we’re lucky to sample a Chinese New Year tasting menu at Santa Fe’s newest
culinary sweet spot, Sweetwater Harvest Kitchen, from February 9-23.
I’m humbled and grateful to Fogelson Library
inviting local authors to place our books here. My other books in this collection
are: Japanese Style: Designing with
Nature’s Beauty and Spa Living:
Revitalizing Body-Mind-Spirit. BTW, 80 percent of the photos in Chinese Style are from our high desert
homes.
Yours for Beauty and Prosperity,
Sunamita Lim
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| Japanese Style (call number NK2115.5 .E84 L57 2007) |
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| Spa Living (call number RA776.98 .L56 2007) |
These will be on the new books shelves until March 2013.
Come by the library on Sunday February 10 for a Chinese New Year treat!
