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Message banners are powerful affirmations of prosperity at Chinese New Year. Hung close to a door or window, they welcome abundance into your home.

Like the wish balloons, the Chinese believe that sky hangings can send your messages into the cosmos, there to be read and acted upon by the powerful sky dragons that are in reality messengers to the gods and deities who reside in the pure Land of Paradise Mountains. The ritual requires you to hang these banners displaying auspicious words like “Let my wealth arrive,” or “May five types of good fortune visit this household” high above your home. The Chinese do this every new year when they place powerful wealth and prosperity affirmations near their doorways to attract good luck in the year ahead.

There are no limits to your creativity here. You can make long banners that flutter in the breeze or you can make hundreds of little flag messages, which you can string up and hang across the front of your house like bunting. You can use some of the traditional Chinese messages —the message “Our wealth has arrived” or “Blessings on this home” are other powerful phrases. Alternatively, you can make up your own auspicious words or phrases. You can use any phrase in any language that you are comfortable with. You can stick your messages around the walls of your home during the New Year or place them on signboards, or hang them up as wealth flags or auspicious banners above your front door.

If you decide to string up your messages, just be sure that you hang your banners up high so that the wind catches them for the wind contains all the chi, both positive and negative, in our environment. Each time the wind blows the messages get strengthened and your wish gets absorbed into the cosmic chi. Be careful to hang your banner in a gentle wind, which carries the benevolent sheng chi, or as the Chinese so lyrically describe it, the dragon’s cosmic breath. If the wind is too powerful, it is overwhelming and may contain killing energy that destroys your wishes.

The Fook symbol is a bringer of good fortune. Many Chinese restaurants display it to keep their profits rolling in.

The Chinese have many auspicious words and prosperity phrases that they know off by heart. These magical words that invoke money luck, abundance, and prosperity are almost second nature to them. Thus the word “fook,” for instance, which means luck, is universally recognized and acknowledged as an auspicious word which has the power to attract great good fortune to you and your household.