'Decorations, Costumes, Baby Outfits': Yellow Dog Praised Around the World
'Decorations, Costumes, Baby Outfits': Yellow Dog Praised Around the World
Sputnik International
According to the eastern calendar, 2018 is the year of the yellow dog. Around the world people celebrated New Year with decorations representing the yellow dog... 04.01.2018, Sputnik International
According to the eastern calendar, 2018 is the year of the yellow dog. Around the world people celebrated New Year with decorations representing the yellow dog symbol. Christmas tree toys, souvenirs, posters, etc. were all depicting the animal. Some people even dressed their little ones in the symbol's outfits for good luck and prosperity.
It is believed in eastern traditions that adding yellow in 2018 to one's wardrobe will attract good fortune. It can be a dress, a scarf or shoes but the color which is the same as this year’s symbol — the yellow dog will bring positive changes to one’s life. Sputnik takes a look at photos from around the world depicting the yellow dog.
Newborn babies wearing dog costumes to celebrate the New Year of the Dog are pictured at the nursery room of Paolo Chokchai 4 Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, December 28, 2017.
Window cleaners, dressed as a rooster, this year's Chinese zodiac animal and a dog, next year's Chinese zodiac animal, pose for photographers as they clean the windows of Ryumeikan hotel during a promotional event to celebrate the upcoming new year in Tokyo, Japan December 20, 2017.
A dog dressed as Santa Claus runs next to other participants also dressed as Santa Claus during in the traditional New Year's Santa Claus race in Skopje, on December 24, 2017.
This overhead view shows visitors looking at a 22.5m x 27m (wide) image of a Shiba Inu dog and her two cubs displayed to celebrate the upcoming "Year of the Dog" from the Chinese zodiac at the Hitachi Seaside Park in Hitachinaka Ibaraki prefecture, some 100 kilometres north of Tokyo on December 29, 2017. The display was made from around 1,100 bassia scoparia plants, 6,500 pine cones and pieces of wood collected in the park.
Visitors walk underneath New Year's Day decorations celebrating next year's "Year of the Dog" from the Chinese zodiac at the Nakamise shopping alley, the front approach to Sensoji Temple, in Tokyo on December 27, 2017. Japan has started the new year holiday period, one of the country's most important holidays, with many people visiting temples and shrines and travelling to their hometowns.
A newborn baby wearing a dog costume to celebrate the New Year of the Dog is pictured at the nursery room of Paolo Chockchai 4 Hospital in Bangkok, Thailand, December 28, 2017.
An aerial view shows people dressed as Father Frost, the Russian equivalent of Santa Claus, and Snow Maiden with members of the Cryophile winter swimming club forming with their bodies a 2018 sign on the bank of the Yenisei River to mark the upcoming New Year and Christmas season in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia December 24, 2017.
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