Dreaming of eggs in Chinese dream interpretation: meaning

Within this tradition

According to a well-known myth there was in the beginning only a great egg, in which the giant Pangu slept. When he woke, he broke the egg: the light part became heaven, the heavy part the earth, yin and yang separated. The egg thus stands at the beginning of everything.

At the manyue, the celebration when a baby is a month old, parents give red eggs to family and friends. Red stands for luck and joy, and the egg for fertility and new life. Sometimes guests receive an even number for a girl and an odd number for a boy. At birthdays and celebrations too eggs symbolise a good and long life.

Along those lines the folk tradition often reads eggs in a dream as a birth, a new beginning or prosperity. Collecting or receiving eggs, as luck reaching you. Red eggs as an upcoming happy event in the family. An egg hatching, as a plan finally succeeding. A broken egg can be read as a setback or a failed plan, and some dream books read it as a quarrel in the family.

Old dream books are folk interpretation, not fixed rules, and are often used with a smile.

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