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Happy Lunar New Year 2006!; <<Year Of The Dog>>
Topic Started: Jan 29 2006, 03:28 AM (90 Views)
Angel
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Lunar New Year
(Chinese New Year, Korean Sol-nal & Vietnamese Tet)

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The Lunar New Year celebrations (Year of the Dog) begins on January 29, 2006


The Lunar New Year is an important time for celebrations and fresh starts for many around the world. The Chinese New Year, Vietnamese New Year (Tet-Tet Nguyen Dan) and Korean New Year (Sol-Nal) are filled with similar customs that date back thousands of years, from honoring ancestors to cleaning house to colorful parades.

The Lunar Calendar is based on the movements of the moon, with each month beginning a new moon. The Lunar New Year starts on the first new moon, generally between Jaunuary 21-February 19. January 29, 2006 is the beginning of the year of Dog.

Like Koreans and Vietnamese, Chinese families rejoice in the New Year over days or weeks with unique food, decorations, and other traditions for good luck in the coming year. Houses are given thorough cleanings, new clothes are bought, debts are paid, and family and friends gather to begin the New Year with a clean slate. It is of great importance to think only the best thoughts and say only kind words to those around you, so that the New Year begins in a positive atmospere. Before the big day, Chinese families paste red scrolls with good luck words such as "peaceful" and "safe" around their houses, and on Year's Day, children receive red envelopes with money inside. They pay respects to their grandparents ten times back, visit friends and family bearing gifts of candies, oranges, and pomelos, and feast on good luck dishes to further ensure prosperous futures.

Firecrackers are set off to drive away evil spirits with loud noises and to anticipate the upcoming parades. Business owners invote lion dancers to come celebrate up and down the streets in the Lion Parade, but the Dragon Parade is the highlight of the festivities. An enormous dragon fashioned out of paper mache is painted in brilliant reds, golds, and greens, and it is thought the dragon comes alive when a martial arts master paints the dragon's eyes. The celebrations end on the fifteenth day when people hang paper lanterns, lit with candles and attatched with riddles, for the Lantern Festival (February 13, 2006).

The Vietnamese New Year, called Tet, lasts from three days to a week and includes much of the same traditions as the Chinese New Year, including a Dragon Dance. To bring extra good luck, a child or relative is sent out just before midnight and is invited to reenter a few minutes later, being the all important visitor of the new year.

Sol-Nal, the Korean New Year lasting for three days, embraces "filial piety". or respecting one's parents. Children make formal bows called "se-bae" to their parents to show their gratefulness to them. They are given "se-bae-ton," money which they keep in a "bok-ju-mo-ni," or good fortune pouch. Games such as Yut and kite-flying contests are part of the festivities, which last until Tae-Bo-Rum, the first full moon festival on February 13, 2006.

No matter how you celebrate, the New Year is a special occasion full of warmth, cheerfulness, and reflection. Most importantly, families and friends of all cultures can keep alive the traditions of coming together to share in the hopes for a new beginning.

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happy chinese new years :]

angus its ur year haha
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*"Happy New Year" in another language*
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happy chinese new years :yayaya:
we call it spring festival

years ago, firecrackers are forbidden here, but are allowed this year
in fact i dont like firecrachers
they are dangerous and noisy
the day before yesterday, about 30 people were wouded here because of firecrackers
i admit, i'm afraid of firecrackers


i noticed today's newspaper
it said the lunar new year is becoming a official festival
is it ture?
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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR! =]]
OVERCOMING all trials.
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ikaw ang lahat sa akin.
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yeah! i forgot you live in china, aqua ^_^

gung hay fat choy! (i hope thats right)

*puts firecrackers away* ;]

i dont know if its an "official" festival here in the states, but it may as well be...its something everyone, even of non-asian decent, can enjoy...i love the lion dances...i've only seen them once tho
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Happy Lunar New Year, everyone!


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I think all dogs will get lucky this year! It's like "No dog left behind!". heh

Happy Lunar Year, everyone!
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