From the Horse’s Mouth 2 Horse Happenings 2 January 2014 January fierce competitors. For entrepreneurs who are planning to start a business, 2014 is a lucky year in particular for restaurants and the telecommunications industry – maybe not the NBN though! Wild Horses Can’t Keep Them Away! Horses tend to be very popular, fun loving and entertaining. They love to party and find people and crowds exciting. Elegant and charming, they like being the centre of attention. Eloquent speakers, they are persuasive, able to assimilate information quickly, but with a bit of a temper they often speak without thinking and regret later. Horses get involved in many activities but sometimes lose interest and fail to finish tasks. Prone to getting sucked in to the latest ‘craze’, they don’t take failure well and will need time to recover. Failure is humiliation. Horses like to try different things and are always on the hunt for a better opportunity. The arts can be prominent in Horse Years – horses having inspired artists in China for thousands of years from ancient frescoes to terracotta statues. Don’t Flog a Dead Horse Horses cannot bear to be held back. They are independent and rarely listen to advice. Chin Communications of the horse. Genghis Khan (also a horse) They tend to interfere in many things and A Galloping Year conquered Eastern Europe on horseback frequently fail to finish projects of their (马上治天下 mǎshàng zhì tiānxià), consequently own. So try not to get off the track. The of High Energy Chinese have high expectations of the Horse Year ends on 18 February 2015 horse – leaving the heavy lifting to the ox giving way to the Goat (or Sheep if you and Continuous and getting on their high horse – sitting on prefer). horseback implies that a person is from a Are you a Horse? Improvement high ranking family – so people born in a www.chincommunications.com.au/ Horse Year care about their dress and speech. chinesenewyear/chinese-astrology.php The spirit of the horse represents 马到成功(mǎdào chénggōng) the Chinese people’s ethos – making Famous Horses achieve immediate victory; unremitting efforts to improve themselves. Cricketers James Faulkner, James Horses are energetic, bright, warm-hearted, Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, Richie Benaud; win instant success intelligent and able. Through history the Tennis greats: Margaret Court, Chris Evert, Chinese looked for sturdy and beautiful Caroline Wozniacki and on a horse theme: stallions – able to outrun other horses, Jockey Shane Dye, Trainer Gai Waterhouse; repare for a thrilling ride starting on and the one–thousand–mile horse (千里马 Harry Kewell, Muhammad Ali. P31 January 2014. The Year of the Horse qiānlǐmǎ) – equivalent to around 300 miles Leaders: Hu Jintao, Nelson Mandela, is viewed as a year of action and good a day – meant it was a winged steed which Sir Robert Menzies, Boris Yeltsin, Joe fortune. Be prepared to grab hold and helped emperors conquer the nation. Today, Biden, David Cameron, Lenin, Jacob hang on – horses need freedom and room to be called a qiānlǐmǎ means the person Zuma, Governor-General Quentin Bryce, to run – dream big and you can cross the is very capable and knows how to run a Shinzo Abe, Angela Merkel, Hugo Chavez, winning post. Here it is straight from the business with Horse Sense. For China’s former NZ Prime Minister David Lange, Horse’s Mouth: business forecast in the Year of the Horse: Wen Jiabao, Genghis Khan, Emperors Don’t Spare the Horses www.chincommunications.com.au/blog/ Kangxi and Yongzheng of China’s Qing Unexpected adventure and romance Don’t Back the Wrong Horse Dynasty could be on the agenda - the more off the Those of you who worked very hard last Pollies: Bronwyn Bishop, Wayne beaten path the better. Energy is high and year just to see a project stall or client Swan, Catherine King, Clive Palmer, Wyatt productivity rewarded. But decisive action, procrastinate will feel like the stable door Roy, Malcolm Turnbull, Pauline Hanson not holding your horses, brings victory: has finally opened and things will start to Neil Armstrong, Rowan Atkinson, you have to act fast in a Horse Year. If turn around. However beware, the horse Helena Bonham Carter, Warren Buffett, you are not 100% sure about something, can also see fools rushing in – yes, luck is Jackie Chan, Billy Connolly, Kevin Costner, don’t do it. Events move so quickly in a with you, but you still need to apply due Cindy Crawford, Robert Duvall, Clint Horse Year and you don’t want to close diligence – use a little common sense and Eastwood, Harrison Ford, Aretha Franklin, the stable door after the horse has bolted pick your timing. With keen judgement a Bob Geldof, Gene Hackman, Rolf Harris, (马后炮 mǎhòupào). horse’s natural intuition often leads them Jimi Hendrix, Calvin Klein, Jennifer According to the Chinese, a magical down the right path to the right decision. Lawrence, Ang Lee, Annie Lennox, Paul horse has supernatural powers, is heroic, Horses generally don’t need to struggle McCartney, Princess Margaret, Spike strong and can even fly! A White Celestial much for success and do enjoy the finer Milligan, Mick Molloy, Sir Isaac Newton, Cloud Horse is sacred to the Chinese things in life. Horses rebel when constrained Louis Pasteur, Gina Reinhardt, Rembrandt, Goddess of Mercy Guanyin. Her white by rules though – let a horse have his head. Martin Scorsese, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, horse flies through the heavens, bringing Known as a year for leaders (see our Barbra Streisand, Patrick Swayze, John peace and good tidings. The horse is a list of horse leaders), 2014 is set up for Travolta, Vivaldi, Denzel Washington, hero in China because important battles those who want to make a difference and Emma Watson, Vanessa Wu, Oprah were won due to the power and strength know how to make it happen. Horses are Winfrey. 01 Chin Communications Pty Ltd Giddy Up for a Great Horse Year! Chinese Translation Specialists January 2014 January ABN 36 062 687 085 From the Horse’s Mouth: no time the horse recovered and carried the Chinwags January 2014 龙马精神 lóngmǎ jīngshén – a horse King into many successful battles. and dragon spirit – must be a good thing, An enduring saying arose: “there may CHIN COMMUNICATIONS whereas马马虎虎 mǎmǎ hǔhǔ is pretty be many famous horses but not many who average! can pick a winner!” Level 4, 221 Queen Street 白驹过隙 báijū guòxì – time passes quickly In contrast, there was another king — like a white pony’s shadow across a crevice; who was happy to spend 1000 taels of GPO Box 221 time flies. gold to secure a qiānlǐmǎ. He spread the Melbourne Victoria For more horse idioms see: word of his quest, but after three years no Australia 3001 www.chincommunications.com.au/ such horse materialised. An official came — chinesenewyear.php to the king and volunteered, for 300 taels, Phone 1300 792 446 Fax 61 3 9670 0766 Horses for Courses – Good for Translators! to fulfil his wish. The official travelled far and wide for three months and finally was [email protected] Horses like to interact with people; www.chincommunications.com.au not fond of taking orders they also run flogged a dead horse for 500 taels! He from jobs they contemplate as routine. brought a skeleton back to the palace! The king was furious, as you would LinkEDIN They’re able to grasp new subjects with Chin Communications ease and are good communicators – and imagine. The official placated: “Calm down they appreciate power. Good professions and watch.” Once people heard that the king was prepared to spend so much money FacEbook could be: publicist, sales representative, Chin Communications journalist, language instructor, translator, on a dead horse, no less than three qiānlǐmǎ bartender, performer, tour operator, were purchased and the king was delighted. The saying is still used: If you want to TwittER librarian or pilot; creativity is rewarded in @chincomms both the arts and sciences. attract good talent you need good policy. People born under the Year of the Horse Happenings OUR Blog Horse will enjoy success in their careers This Horse Year sees a Winter Olympics chincommunications.com.au/blog in 2014. Horse people do not like to in Russia (while back in 1990, Mikhail stick around a single company for a long Gorbachev was elected as the first-ever GooglE + time yet they put their best efforts to ‘President’ of the Soviet Union); the Soccer Chin Communications enhance the growth of the firm where they World Cup will take place in Brazil and the Chin Communications are employed. Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. WEibo Horse bosses want you to work like Australia will host the G-20 Summit in @ 澳大利亚秦皇翻译公司 they do. Their impatience can hamper their working relationships. They need to November in Brisbane. be more tolerant. Mister Ed, the talking horse, screened its final episode in a Horse Year. Horse play Technology and productivity are key Get on well with Tigers, Goats, Roosters, themes in Horse Years. The World Wide Dogs and other Horses, not too good for Web started, as did the human genome Monkeys and especially not Rats. project, the first test tube baby and insulin. Elections are a strong theme in 2014 伯乐相马 Bólè xiāng mǎ - praise those with 42% of the world’s population voting, who are good at recognising talent including India, Indonesia, Egypt, New In the ancient Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046– Zealand, Afghanistan and Thailand; three 256BC) lived an exceptional man, Bo Le. Australian states will also take to the polls. He was good at picking winners and was In the last Horse Year all state/territory a horse whisperer.