Water dragon

January blog

I started writing this little blog about the new year in mid December and it was pointed out to me by my other half, that we weren’t at the new year yet.

“Yes dear”,I said, sipping at a second glass of wine, “but you have to get prepared for these things”😉.

The good people of Tuvalu island in the Pacific Ocean, need to get prepared too, not only are they the last peoples to welcome in the new year, they also inhabit one of the lowest lying islands on the planet and it is predicted to be awash with sea water in the next decade or so. My thought is they need to embrace Chinese folklore of the Dragon, a mythical creature that has control over water. Still if they do get flooded out they can slip over to China and join the new year carnival every February 10th. Being their new year, this will be the year of the Dragon. This mythical creature has symbolic importance in Chinese folklore from ancient times. I can’t stop the tide rising for Tuvalu but I can provide a superb depiction of a Chinese 4 clawed Dragon painted on a fully marked bowl which dates to the 15th Century right here