Happy Monkey Year

Happy Monkey Year 2016 🐴🐵😊
馬上封侯 Immediate High-Ranking Promotion with Swooshy illustration. Interesting old idiom using two animals to refer to prosperity and promotion for Chinese New Year. 馬=horse. 上= above, on top of. 封=promotion. 侯=marquis, nobel, nobility, high rank position. “猴 monkey” in Chinese sounds the same as “侯 marquis”. When 馬 and 上 are combined, it becomes an adverb meaning ‘immediately’, a very clever twist.   
 
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