Chinese New Year is coming!
Chinese New Year in 2015 , the most important traditional festival in China, will be kicked off from February 18. The day which is called Spring Festival Eve will be the first day of the one week holiday. It's the most important traditional festival in China. Some other Asian countries like Korea, Japan and Vietnam will also celebrate this festival. On Spring Festival Eve , Chinese will have a family reunion dinner and watch CCTV Chinese New Year Gala over the dinner table. People usually get up very early on the first day of lunar new year. Some of them even set off firecracker on midnight to welcome the coming of new year. They believe some one who gets up the earliest will be the luckiest person in the coming year. Kids will get lucky money from the elders. Sweeping and cleaning is forbidden because people think the luck would be cleared away. Also for the same reason, people wouldn't get their hair cut during the first month of lunar new year. Because there is no English word for 羊 which is a Chinese word for all kinds of sheep and goat, Chinese New Year in 2015 can be called the year of sheep or the year of goat too.
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Chinese New Year is coming!
Chinese New Year in 2015 , the most important traditional festival in China, will be kicked off from February 18. The day which is called Spring Festival Eve will be the first day of the one week holiday. It's the most important traditional festival in China. Some other Asian countries like Korea, Japan and Vietnam will also celebrate this festival. On Spring Festival Eve , Chinese will have a family reunion dinner and watch CCTV's Chinese New Year Gala over from the dinner table. People usually get up very early on the first day of the lunar new year. Some of them even set off firecrackers on at midnight to welcome the coming of new year. They believe that some one the one who gets up the earliest will be the luckiest person in the coming year. Kids will get lucky money packets from the elders. Sweeping and cleaning is forbidden because people think the luck would be cleared swept away. Also for the same reason, people wouldn't get their hair cut during the first month of lunar new year. Because there is no English word for 羊 which is a Chinese word for all kinds of sheep and goat, Chinese New Year in 2015 can be called the year of sheep or the year of goat too.
ps: 新年快乐，万事如意! :D
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Anyway, 祝您羊年快乐!万事如意！
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New York daily news titled year of 'any ruminant horned animal'. I just can't help laughing!
As a Chinese, I have never thought about which羊 it is. This is really interesting.
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