Happy Chinese New Year!!

17 February, 2007 Posted by As Rant (1) Comment

We would like to wish everyone here a Happy Chinese New Year..!!  Chinese New Year falls on the 18th of February this year and it is the year of the Pig.

To learn more about Chinese New Year, head on over to Wikipedia.  They have a great article on Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year,(shared by Koreans,Vietnamese,Mongolian,etc. for hundreds of years, which is called Korean New Year,Vietnamese New Year,etc. by other peoples) known in Chinese as the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year, is the most important one of the traditional Chinese holidays. The festival proper begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th, in which this day is called Lantern Festival.  Lantern Festival is also known as the fifteenth night.”

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Matthew February 18, 2007

Thank you.

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