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Chinese New Year 4705

The Chinese New Year is now popularly known as the Spring Festival because it starts from the Begining of Spring (the first of the twenty-four terms in coodination with the changes of Nature). Its origin is too old to be traced. Several explanations are hanging around. All agree, however, that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese solely means "year", was originally the name of a monster beast that started to prey on people the night before the beginning of a new year (Do not lose track here: we are talking about the new year in terms of the Chinese calendar).

Author: Sean Carter

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As for all new beginnings, the Chinese also mark their New Year celebrations with much excitement and cheer ! Well-known for its gaiety and splendor, the Chinese New Year is, indeed, a very colorful occasion for its people and for others over the world. Kicking off on a new moon day, the Chinese New Year is a 15 day long celebration, which ends on the full moon night with the famous Festival of Lanterns.

These 15 days of the celebration include prayers to ancestors, traditional meals, decorations with symbolic items (usually in red), reuniting with family, visiting friends and relatives, exchanging gifts, shopping, cleaning the house, wearing new clothes, joining in elaborate parades with masks and floats of dragon and the symbolic animal, majestic lion dances, bursting firecrackers and, of course, wishing each other a very happy ‘Xin Nian’ or a very Happy New Year !

The Chinese New Year marks the beginning of the bright and beautiful spring and hence it’s also popularly known as the ‘Spring Festival’. So it’s definitely a time to move towards all bounties—love, luck, fortune, health, wealth and prosperity in every way ! And the Chinese make the most of this auspicious occasion with food, fun, friends, family and full-fledged festivity.

Do you know why we always have a different date for the Chinese New Year every year? Well, the Chinese calendar being based on a combination of both the solar and lunar movements, Chinese New Year’s day always falls on a different date each year. In 2007, or the Chinese Year 4705, the New Year day is February 18. And, 4705 is the Year of the Pig ! So start crowing your wishes now, in case you miss anyone on the special hour !

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Sean Carter writes on events and holidays celebrated round the globe - Chinese New Year, Christmas, Rosh-Hashanah, Diwali and many more . He is a writer with special interest in ecard industry.He is an active blogger and contributes to Chinese New Year Blog.

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