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This Year
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The reason why Chinese New year is not on the same day each year.
What is it uses the Lunar Calendar?
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The color people wear on Chinese New Year.
What is Red?
(Red symbolizes fire, which is believed to ward off bad luck!)
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The zodiac for this year.
What is the Snake?
(Recent years of the snake are 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, and 2013)
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People born in the year of this zodiac are said to be confident, intelligent, and enthusiastic. Recent years of this zodiac are 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012, and 2024.
What is the Dragon?
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According to legend, the Jade Emperor, the ruler of heaven and earth, held a race to determine the order which animals would have years in the zodiac named after them. This many animals competed.
What is Twelve?
(The twelve animals were, in order, the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, horse, snake, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.)
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The day when Chinese New Year begins each year.
What is the second new moon after the winter solstice?
(New Year festivities traditionally continue for fifteen days, when the moon is brightest.)
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Parents will give these, which contain money, to their children during Chinese New Year.
What are Red Envelopes?
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The element this year is associated with.
What is Wood?
200
People born in the year of this zodiac are said to be brave, confident, and competitive. Recent years of this zodiac are 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010, and 2022.
What is the Tiger?
200
Each year, the Chinese New Year Zodiac is associated with one of this many elements.
What is Five?
(The element is determined by the year's ending number; Metal - 0 or 1, Water - 2 or 3, Wood - 4 or 5, Fire - 6 or 7, Earth - 8 or 9
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Another common name for Chinese New Year.
What is Lunar New Year?
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This tradition is said to scare away evil and welcome the new year with a bang.
What are Fireworks/Firecrackers?
300
West and South are both considered lucky directions this year for people born in the year of the snake. This direction is considered unlucky for snakes this year.
What is East?
300
People born in the year of this zodiac are said to be quiet, elegant, kind, and responsible. Recent years of this zodiac are 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, and 2023.
What is the Rabbit?
300
In Chinese culture, your Ben Ming Nian, or zodiac birth year, is considered this kind of luck.
What is Bad Luck!
(When your zodiac birth year comes around again, you're supposed to avoid unlucky numbers, colors, and directions because it is already an unlucky year for you. An easy way to remember is that when your age is a multiple of 12—for example, 24, 36, 48 and so forth—it will always be your Ben Ming Nian.)
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Despite the fact that it takes place in winter, this is another common name for Chinese New Year.
What is the Spring Festival?
(This is because it marks the beginning of spring in the lunar calendar)
400
This tradition is usually performed by dancing young men as they hold this colorful beast aloft, which might stretch a hundred feet long, and guide it through the streets.
What is the Dragon Dance?
400
1 and 8 are both considered lucky numbers this year for people born in the year of the snake. 0 and this number are considered unlucky numbers for snakes this year.
What is 5?
400
People born in the year of this zodiac are said to be sharp, smart, and curious. Recent years of this zodiac are 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, and 2016.
What is the Monkey?
400
Some call this festival, held on the last day of Chinese New Year celebrations, the true Chinese Valentines Day.
What is the Lantern Festival?
500
Chinese New Year is estimated to have been celebrated for about this many years.
What is 3,500 years?
(Many believe it began all the way back in the Shang Dynasty (1600–1046 BC))
500
This tradition is performed by two dancers, one of whom manipulates the head while the other manipulates the tail.
What is the Lion Dance?
500
Red and black are considered lucky colors this year for people born in the year of the snake. Pink and this color are considered unlucky colors for snakes this year.
What is Purple?
500
People born in the year of this zodiac are said to be lovely, honest, and prudent. Recent years of this zodiac are 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, and 2018.
What is the Dog?
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Fortune cookies are not really found in China. Instead, this traditional Cantonese cookie is a very popular dessert on Chinese New Year.
What are Almond Cookies?
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