Tag: Chinese New Year

Happy New Year Chinese Style –Year of the Water Tiger (February 1-15, 2022)

Written by Diana Paul on February 6, 2022. Posted in Lunar New Year. 1 Comment on Happy New Year Chinese Style –Year of the Water Tiger (February 1-15, 2022)

Happy New Year –Chinese Style! The Lunar New Year begins with the first new moon that occurs near the end of January and ends on the fifteenth day when the full moon arrives. Lunar New Year is the single most important traditional celebration in East and Southeast Asian cultures. Over 2 billion people celebrate the Lunar New Year for a two-week period with a dragon parade on the first or second day and a Lantern Festival on the last. Twelve animals comprise the Chinese calendar and zodiac, one for each month: the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat,...

“Year of the Horse” — A New Year Gallops On

Written by diana on January 7, 2014. Posted in Lunar New Year, Unhealed Wound. 6 Comments on “Year of the Horse” — A New Year Gallops On

The Chinese New Year doesn’t start until Jan. 31, 2014. but many people start thinking of the animal sign on the first of the New Year. The spirit of the horse is recognized in the Chinese zodiac as energetic, elegant, warm-hearted, intelligent and able, but also capricious with a skittish and anxious nature as well. The year of the Wooden Horse is supposed to be a temperamental one, so if you feel like horsing around during the upcoming festivities, that may be particularly fitting this year. Just be careful with the fireworks! Since 2014 is meant to be a tempestuous year, prepare...

Happy New Year! –The Year of the Dragon

Written by diana on January 2, 2012. Posted in Lunar New Year, New Year, Unhealed Wound. 9 Comments on Happy New Year! –The Year of the Dragon

Happy New Year, everyone, and may some fire be breathed into your lives with good fortune, excitement, and the acceptance of transition and change! I always like to look up the feng-shui and Chinese New Year after toasting with champagne a few days earlier. I found out that 2012 is the first black water dragon year in 60 years. (The other dragon years were not water dragon years.) The dragon is considered unpredictable and untouchable. Its mystery is never completely known. People cannot see its head and tail at the same time. The dragon is the most powerful, revered symbol in ancient Chinese...

Tag: Chinese New Year

Happy New Year Chinese Style –Year of the Water Tiger (February 1-15, 2022)

“Year of the Horse” — A New Year Gallops On

Happy New Year! –The Year of the Dragon

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