Jip Choi San

Today, i want to talk about a very important topic about our Chinese New Year. Every year on the first day of CNY, we will have all the lights in our house ON and all prepare to welcome a very important guest into our home. It is believed that this guest, once visit us, we'll be blessed with wealth.

This guest is no other than our Choi-San.

If you do not know the ritual to do a warm welcoming to Choi-San, you must read this post throughly. First, you must set up a table full of offerings. Like this.



Fruits are essential because after a long journey to come to your house, of course it would be wise to serve something that quench the thirst. That is why fruits will be a good choice.




Nin-gou is an auspicious desserts usually found at CNY period. It represents good future, with advancement every year.



Sometimes it would be very sweet of you to offer some sweets to Choi-San, so that he would have a sweet memory of you. Perhaps he might visit you again next year.



After setting up the table, it would be the time to send signal to Choi-San to come to your home. This is done by burning incense. From far, Choi-San can see the smoke signal, then only he will come. Therefore this is an important step.



Make sure your table is something like this. Nothing less, only more.



After the visit to your home, Choi-San would need to proceed to someone else's home. Therefore, before he depart, it would be very thoughtful of you to have a toast with him.



Of course, the reason we hope Choi-San will visit us is because we hope he would bring us prosperity in life. Therefore, we must pray from our hearts and ask with good intentions from Choi-San, and burn the talisman to him. Don't think this is old-fashion way. When you burn the talisman, you are actually converting analog wishes into digital form & send to Choi-San thru wireless services.



So this is basically the dummy's guide to welcome Choi-San to your home. In case you don't know how Choi-San looked like, this is a potrait of him. In case you met him, remember to invite him to your home for blessings of prosperity.



Happy CNY.

ChiM