Feeding Year of The Rat Auspiciously

Companies not doing well isn’t lack of business skills but teamwork is absence. Companies doing well isn’t good at everything but a presence of teamwork makes each day. After another 19 days you and your employees will be celebrating Chinese New Year and before the First Lunar Day arrive, what the least are you going to do for your employee.

Family not doing well isn’t lack of money but unity is absence. Family doing well isn’t represented by assets, but a tray of togetherness is consistent. After another 19 days you and your family members have to welcome Year of The Rat, so how, you and them could celebrate this Chinese New Year that will attract good luck into your home.

Those born in the Year of The Rat are usually hardworking and display strong leadership abilities. They are advised to be moderate in whatever they are doing this year and to participate in auspicious celebrations.

Surely you have heard of the word, Rat Race. After a year of exhaustion at work, employees deserved the least, a pre-Chinese New Year appreciation company reunion dinner. Having worked from 1984 to 2019, the most disappointing feedback that top the list from employees is “ Got sau koong jau or not ” early called ‘ me inga ’ which means ‘ beautiful teeth ’ in Cantonese.

The “ sau kong reunion dinner ” is a way to reward employees for their contribution after a year of hardship and how much the boss is going to spend is not important because it has to depend of the company’s financial standing.

In Melaka, there is a very wide range of restaurants for the bosses to select, and the choices of the menu is aplenty. Of course, some bosses like to give the most auspicious and special “ sau kong reunion dinner ” for their employees. These bosses believed auspicious giving beget auspicious receiving.

Rat is a genius animal and similar the man who uses the moon block to get a divine answer, rat also practices poe divination to know whether it is safe to get out from the rat hole to hunt for food.

So, the above is a brief description of the rat.

Business houses or family homes alike, accumulating wealth is a reward for work and some may like to try placing a bowl near the door to put money upon entry as a symbolic gesture. You can put in loose change 10 minutes before midnight and put again 10 minutes after midnight.

Don’t argue, don’t scold, don’t break plate, bowl or cup, keep away knife, never sweep floor nor dump trash, don’t eat rice porridge, and how would the God of Water see if you wash clothes on the first day.

Reunion dinner is great on The Day of Son-in-Law with married daughters on the second day and while you may skip going out on the third day by staying home and resting early as it is the Mice Wedding Day.

The God of Stove has a black face because he watches the stove area during his era when firewood was used for cooking. He is actually the son of the Jade Emperor and he was given the role as The God of Stove because he likes watching girls doing kitchen chores. So, people say, if you have any wishes, you can confide in him before he goes back to Heaven to submit his report.

Leaving the heaven in the morning and arriving your home in the afternoon on the fourth day, is advisable to eat in for lunch and eat out for dinner.

Businesses can poise for betterment by beginning to serve their customers on the fifth day and harness wealth with auspicious lion dances, firecrackers and giving away red packets, a symbolic gesture of the availability of the over inflow of wealth. REMEMBER! The God of Wealth watches from afar how wealthy a man can be.

Before the toilet comes in, farmers used to clean manure pit after every odd days and for sure they would cleaned the pit on the sixth day. The God of Pig Day is remembered because many miracles happened after the death of this kind monk who asked farmers to plant trees.

Add long noodles as a la carte on the seventh day to your order in restaurant because long noodle stands for longevity The Human Day shower to mankind.

Get back to work on the eighth day and arranged a year-start new vision reunion dinner with work colleague to strive for better income in a new year.

You would be busy to do things outside even if you would like to dine out, because preparations to show sincerity to the Jade Emperor who lives in the thirty-third heaven and who governs thirty-three heavens has to be done as the ninth day takes over from the eight.

Next to the Eating Day on the tenth of lunar day, is the Break Day for in-laws to and their children to visit grandparent. Preparation for Chap Goh Meh could begin as early as the twelfth day and continue onto the thirteen day to pause for a couple of hours to pray to General Kuan Yu.

Jonker Walk is gearing up on the fourteen day for Yuan-Xiao and I will be participating Yong Chuan Tian Temple procession that day.

团圆饭 Reunited with family