Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Gong Xi Fa Cai!

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Hey peeps! Finally an update on me. As when i visited this blog, i suddenly knew that it was ALL in chinese. Hehe,  so i decided to add an english post. Hey, multilanguage right? =)

So it's chinese new year babe!
And, yeah, sure all of us are busy with our own stuff.
Not to forget, SPM, for all of us born in the year of the Monkey!

Study hard, play hard! 


Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is often called the Lunar New Year, especially by people in mainland China and Taiwan. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese正月pinyin: zhēng yuè) in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as Chúxī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".

Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include KoreansMongoliansNepaleseBhutaneseVietnamese, and formerly the Japanese before 1873. In Mainland ChinaHong KongMacauTaiwanSingaporeIndonesiaMalaysia, the PhilippinesThailand and other countries or regions with significant Han Chinese populations, Chinese New Year is also celebrated, and has, to varying degrees, become part of the traditional culture of these countries. In Canada, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Canada Postissues New Year's themed stamps in domestic and international rates.

Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, its years are often numbered from the reign ofHuangdi outside China. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year 2009 "Chinese Year" 4707, 4706, or 4646.[2]


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