Kung Hei Fat Choy!! Happy New Year to all my Chinese Friends!

[AsahinaKimi]

In Mandarin: xin nian kuai le!

Its the Year of the Tiger!
4708 is the current year.

Chinese New Year is the main holiday of the year for more than one quarter of the world’s population. Although the People’s Republic of China uses the Gregorian calendar for civil purposes, a special Chinese calendar is used for determining festivals. Various Chinese communities around the world also use this calendar.

The beginnings of the Chinese calendar can be traced back to the 14th century B.C.E. Legend has it that the Emperor Huangdi invented the calendar in 2637 B.C.E.

The Chinese calendar is based on exact astronomical observations of the longitude of the sun and the phases of the moon. This means that principles of modern science have had an impact on the Chinese calendar




http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-chinese.html

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

1. Greaaaaaaaaat!!!! Happy New Year!!! Now you made me crave dumplings!!!

:hi:

[AsahinaKimi]

2. I was thinking.. Should I go out for Chinese New Year?

You know, to have a dinner...I was thinking about Chicken Chow Mein, and then I thought.. Wait.. Are Chinese restaurants even open today? Is Chinatown even busy? hmmm.. Its their biggest holiday of the year.. I hope they all have the day off!!

[Swede]

3. Year of the tiger

[ProdigalJunkMail]

4. Kiong Hee Huat Tsia n/t

[applegrove]

5. Happy New Year!!!

[deoxyribonuclease]

6. Happy new year!

恭喜發財! 新年快樂!

[AwakeAtLast]

7. Happy New Year!

:toast:

:beer:

My daughter will be happy to learn it is the year of the tiger. She loves kitties, all types of kitties. :D

:party:

[AnnieBW]

8. Tiger Woods gets to bang one girl a day

for the rest of the year

[Forkboy]

9. K&R for coolness.

[JoeyT]

10. Happy New Year!

e-hong bao
(I have no idea what that says. I hope nothing terrible.)

[blueworld]

11. Happy New Year!

I have all my Chinese cookbooks out & am cooking up a storm this week. :party:

[AsahinaKimi]

12. There will be plenty of parades in the USA for Chinese New Year

For my city of San Francisco:
The 2010 Chinese New year Festival and Parade is on Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 5:15 pm.2010 Shanxi Dancers
ONE PERFORMANCE ONLY! The Luliang Folk Arts Performing Group from Shanxi Province, China will be performing in San Francisco for the very first time.



http://www.chineseparade.com/

Over 100 units will participate in the Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade. A San Francisco tradition since just after the Gold Rush, the parade continues to delight and entertain the many hundreds of thousands of people that come to watch it on the street or tune in to watch it on television on KTVU Fox 2 or KTSF Channel 26, 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Nowhere in the world will you see a lunar new year parade with more gorgeous floats, elaborate costumes, ferocious lions, exploding firecrackers , and of course the newly crowned Miss Chinatown U.S.A. and her court. A crowd favorite is the spectacular 201' Golden Dragon ("Gum Lung") It takes a team of over 100 men and women from the martial arts group, White Crane to carry this dragon throughout the streets of San Francisco.

This year's Southwest Airlines Chinese New Year Parade promises to warm your heart and electrify your senses, come rain or shine.