Helter-skelter

By Juli

Hoppy New Year!

According to the Chinese calendar, today is the start of the year 4708, the Year of the Rabbit, which is supposed to be "A placid year, very much welcomed and needed after the ferocious year of the Tiger."

Hope they're right!

Yesterday I asked a local Chinese family if they could translate the characters on these little cups as I'd had no luck trying to do it myself. The best they could come up with was, clockwise from left - '10,000', 'Lack nothing', 'Long life' and 'Strong'. Apparently the symbols need to be read together but they couldn't really give me a definitive English phrase to express it. Can anyone else help?

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