The Chinese New Year explained 9 Articles

by Lokemun Magar - Food

The Chinese New Year Explained The Chinese New Year is best explained from four perspectives: spiritual, socio-economic, cultural and modern. Chinese all over the world are going through transitions, not unlike other ...read more

by Bob Younce

Chinese New Year has been celebrated for hundreds of years. The tradition of celebrating Chinese New Year is so old, in fact, that historians have had a difficult time trying to pin down when exactly this ancient celebrat...read more

by Christine G.

ATTENTION ALL RATS! YEAR 4706 IS COMING! Year 4706 of the traditional Chinese calendar will begin on February 7, 2008, initiating the two-week-long Spring Festival which is the most important celebration of the year. I...read more

by Nora Carver

The Chinese New Year or Yuan Tan is the longest and most festively celebrated holiday in China. The holiday holds 15 full days of feasts and celebrations. The New Year for the Chinese falls between January 21st and Febr...read more

by Maggie O'Leary

I must admit, I was among the segment of the American population that doesn't know a lot about the Chinese New Year. So, I set about learning about the traditions and meaning of this special holiday. I learned a lot, and I...read more

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by Susan Kleinhans

Americans often isolate themselves from their immediate families. A few couples may spend intimate, romantic evenings alone as they quietly watch the old year pass away. They calmly celebrate the upcoming year with eleganc...read more

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by Ho Tin

There used to be a monster that lived in the mountain. There was once where the monster chance upon a village. The monster liked the village as he could find a lot of nice food and interesting people there. There after, he...read more

by Rizpah Steverson

The Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The Chinese New Year is a fifteen day celebration that occurs every year on a different date. In the year 2007 it started on Febru...read more

by Rose Conrad

If you are the kind of person that breaks all your New Year's Resolutions by the middle of January - do not despair! On 7th February 2008 it will be the start of the Chinese New Year, so you have the chance to make them al...read more