[Foundation-l] The Chinese New Year Wikipedia Logo

[Jon Harald Søby]

IMO, this logo looks great. It is considerably better than the one
used last year (which was, no offense, quite horrible). Just one
question: You say that the character 袓 is exchanged with 豬, which
means pig. What does 袓 mean?

On 2/16/07, THD <theodoranian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2 days later, it will be the Chinese New Year, and some Chinese Wikipedian
> has made the Chinese New Year celebration Wikipedia logo. During the Chinese
> New Year period (Feb. 18 to 23), I think Chinese Wikipedians are proposing a
> celebration of new year on Chinese Wikipedia. You can take a look of this
> logo, http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wiki_pig.png
>
> There are 2 changes:
> 1. The logo is using red color which means happiness and celebration in
> Chinese community.
> 2. The logo is changing the original Chinese character 袓 to 豬，the later one
> 豬 means pig. This year is the year of pig.
>
> Please comment.
>
> THD
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