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Chinese New Year Plant
By Peace | January 19, 2012
Lucky Bamboo ( 富贵竹 or Dracaena Sanderana)
Another few more days will be Chinese New Year. We bought a small pot of Lucky Bamboo, 富贵竹 or Dracaena Sanderana. This is a very hardy plant, very easy to grow and won’t die easily. The pot of Lucky Bamboo is placed in a special dragon pot. This Chinese New Year shall be the year of the Dragon and this is the only dragon pot available at Shop and Save.
There is a total of 8 Lucky Bamboo (Symbolize abundance) and it was sold at a price of $12. Surrounding the Lucky Bamboo are small plants with fleshy leaflets — very unique and nice.
In case I got no time to post online: Happy New Year Everybody!
This website provides quite a detail information about the Lucky Bamboo:
The Lucky Bamboo incorporates the symbolism of bamboo, such as flexibility, strength and suppleness. Also known as Dragon Tree or Ribbon Plant, the Lucky Bamboo is a Feng Shui sign. As the name suggests, the plant symbolises good luck, and since one seems to be lucky when money is involved, the plant also symbolises income. As bamboo can grow fast, so should the money pile up.
During Chinese New Year, one will see numerous Lucky Bamboo combined with lucky charms. It is believed that a combination of the Dragon Tree with signs of the Five Elements will intensify the positive powers.
Red or golden ribbons are commonly found attached to the plant.
A Lucky Bamboo with a red ribbon and an attached peanut would enhance, exponentiate its meaning within the objects and translate into something like:
lucky bamboo- luck, money, quick achievement
bamboo- youth (spring of ones life), suppleness, strength, endurance, flexibility, longevity, green colour- growth, spring, hence new and strong beginnings
red (colour)- good luck, expansive, blooming, reaching upwards, celebration, happiness, joy, vitality
fire, red (Five Elements)- good luck, money, respect, recognition, protection, vitality
peanuts- health, long life, birth of prosperity, continuous growth, multiplication in wealth and good fortune, stability
Apart from the symbolism attributed to the twig of the money tree, where to place the twig as well as the number of twigs one has or gives away as a present is important as well.
According to Feng Shui beliefs, indoor plants should be placed in the Southeast corner to increase wealth, 2 twigs stand for love, 3 twigs for happiness, 5 twigs for health, 8 twigs for abundance, 9 twigs for all over good fortune and happiness.
It is said that the Lucky Bamboo is luckiest when received it as a gift.
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January 19th, 2012 at 6:58 pm
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