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Will you be lucky next year?Posted by Joel Martinsen, November 20, 2006 11:44 AM
Though we're still several months out from the Spring Festival, China's already starting to gear up for the year of the pig. One sign of the approaching new year is the appearance of vendors selling 2007 calendars. This fortune-telling text, Forecasts for the Pig Year, recently hit newsstands across Beijing. Written by TV fengshui master Rocky Sung (宋韶光), Your general horoscope for 2007, a calendar of auspicious days, a guide to the year's fengshui orientations, answers to frequently asked questions about metaphysics - it's all here. It's entirely unlicensed, of course; there's no mainland book registration, it lacks the authenticity sticker that real copies have, and though it lists for HK$45, you can pick up a copy here for just 10 yuan or less. ![]() If you want something real and porcine, you could do worse than picking up a nice golden pig. Last year at this time, Chinese consumers were investing in golden dogs; last Friday, the China Gold Coin Corporation announced a new set of gold bars for 2007:
Prices last year were roughly 40 yuan per gram lower than this year. Links and Sources
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