Friday, February 4, 2011

Happy Chinese New Year! It's the year of the rabbit everyone!

First I would like to say Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! It's the time of the year again when we go visit relatives and friends house and to collect ang paos and the opposite too. I have nothing much to say so I just copy and paste about 'what is Chinese New Year?'.

Chinese New Year - often called Chinese Lunar New Year although it actually is lunisolar - is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. Despite its winter occurrence, in China it is known as "Spring Festival," the literal translation of the Chinese name 春节 (Pinyin: Chūn Jié), owing to the difference between Western and traditional Chinese methods for computing the seasons. The festival begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: Zhēng Yuè) in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chú Xī (除夕) or "Eve of the Passing Year."

So there you go, and again, I wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year and be healthy! don't drink too much alcohol. lol~

Source: Wikipedia

1 comments:

  1. nyc but do we have a year of the dog in chinesse calendar??
    plzz tell me which animals are their in the chineese calendar?

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