Will you be celebrating - Chinese New Year on 18 February - The Year of the Pig?
By ukchriss
@ukchriss (2097)
February 8, 2007 4:38am CST
From ancient times to the present, Chinese people have been welcoming in the New Year and chasing away the evil spirits by setting off firecrackers,
Will you be celebrating - Chinese New Year on 18 February if so, How do you celebrate?
Do you know what year were you born in the Chinese zodiac calendar?
Browse the calendar to find your birth year and more about your Chinese zodiac sign:
http://www.chiff.com/home_life/holiday/chinese-zodiac.htm
I was born in the year of the Pig!
http://www.usbridalguide.com/special/chinesehoroscopes/Pig.htm
More Info on The Chinese New Year
http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html
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28 responses
@emarie (5442)
• United States
8 Feb 07
its the Pig again? YEAH...
i was born in the year of the Boar/Pig
i like celebrating chinese new year since i am chinese. although there isn't much to do here now, when i was back home there would be candies and parades and everything. normally, i just want chinese food. maybe i'll make some...who knows. i got to go find those new year candies and of course this year i want to try and make some Gau since i got the recipie in a book for christmas
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@kitchenwitchoftupper (2290)
• United States
8 Feb 07
Chriss, I'm a Rat! That is why my cat Charlie has the need to always be chasing me around the house. Thank you for this most informative post ~Donna
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@wolfie34 (26771)
• United Kingdom
8 Feb 07
That's why were are similiar Chriss! I was also born in the year of the pig, 1971 was the year of the pig, as was 1983, 1995 and 2007. I do recognize the chinese new year and I hope that this year will be a better year for me, a turning point a year that will have great insignificance for me, it's about time my luck changed. So here's to the pig! I do believe it memory serves me that the pig was the most cherished animal because he had small feet and although it took him ages to walk he still turned up with the other 11 animals.
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@shywolf (4514)
• United States
8 Feb 07
I also wanted to add that i just looked further into the links you posted, and I am not only a rabbit, but a 'wood rabbit', having been born in 1975. This description fits me even closer than the regular description for ones born under the sign of the rabbit:
Wood Rabbits tend to be the least bit indecisive. This is probably due to their always wanting to play the peacemaker and not wanting to hurt other people’s feelings.
Even just that first part is to me a T, lol! ^_^ And it goes on along those lines, describing me quite well! This is really cool ^_^
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Feb 07
We attended a Chinese New Year's party at the invite of friends that owned a local Chinese restaurant. The traditional foods were wonderful. My children were a little apprehensive to try to the food. The octupus tentacle soup was not one that the kids tried. For me it was an opportunity to try foods I have never eaten before. The snails, octupus and other dishes were wonderful. It was a joy to share this holiday with them.
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@busterbuster (67)
• United States
8 Feb 07
I love the Chinese holidays. They are filled with family, warmth, customs and brightly lit celebrations. My daughter is 3 and she recently had the octopus soup (although she only had 1 bite!)
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@samuelchr (78)
• Macau
9 Feb 07
Yes i will celebrate the Chinese New Year, because I am a Chinese! I will go out with my family to get lucky moeny, and may be go to stage the fireworks! Chinese New Year is very improtant to Chinese. In main land China, people have a long holiday. And the Chinese in different coutry will go back to their home and gather with their family.
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@awesomeone (55)
• Indonesia
9 Feb 07
when chinese new year come, we all family gathering and eat together... so this i like it, and go together...
and i was born 72, jan so still in pig year...:) hope this will be my turning point and be better year and the best...:)
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@abhiquest (579)
• India
9 Feb 07
Well I would be celebrating 18 February every year. The reason being it happens to be birthday of my close friend.
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@sweetvenus (95)
• Philippines
9 Feb 07
Yes every year we welcome the chinese new year by going to chinese temples and offering food. We even have a fortune teller in the temple to tell us what's in it for us these year. As for me, i'm year of the snake and so i was warned to be careful especially with my health. Year of the pig is not a good partner for me and so my mom has given me some charms to contradict some bad elements.
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@charms88 (7538)
• Philippines
9 Feb 07
Yes, being born of chinese parentage, Chinese new year is important as like celebrating Christmas. We will watch dragon dance roaming around our nearby chinese restaurants. I always gathered all my siblings and their respective families here in my house and have get together dinner. I also gave this "ampaw", a small red envelope with money inside and pass on to my children, nieces and nephews. I was also under the sign of pig and a scorpion. Any nice readings for me...
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@angelhuihui (264)
• China
11 Feb 07
The Spring Festival,the first day of the Lunar New Year,is the most important holiday in China.Traditionally,families stay together making dumplings,setting off fireworks,pasting red papers with auspicious words or patterns on walls,doors and windows,giving fifts of money to children and visiting relatives or friends.
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@alen0224 (527)
• China
9 Feb 07
Of course I will celebrate.I'm a Chinese .The Spring Festival is our Chinese tradinional Most important festival of the year,so,all of us will celebrate it whatever how busy they are or wherever they are!
@zhuce2008 (10)
• China
9 Feb 07
surely ,i will ,because i am chinese,hope everyone can have a wonderful new year
@ElusiveButterfly (45939)
• United States
8 Feb 07
I was born in the year of the Rooster.
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@seabreeze (659)
• China
9 Feb 07
This is the spring festival of china.All chinese will be celebrating it!
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@car0811 (184)
• Philippines
9 Feb 07
More Filipinos now are assimilating Chinese customs and traditions here in the Philippines so I might celebrate the Chinese New Year too because we're happy to celebrate it with our Chinese brethren here in the country.
@pingkerbell (19)
• Philippines
9 Feb 07
no, i wont coz i aint chinese! but ill try to browse that url u posted coz im interested to know my chinese zodiac sign.
@sherry1982 (16)
• China
9 Feb 07
of course ,i will .my family celebrate Chinese New Year every year. This year is no excepion.
