Kung Hei Fat Choy
Chinese New Year is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the Chinese calendar. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally run from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. The first day of the New Year falls between January 21 and February 20, so this year it is almost as late as it can be.
Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, and because the holiday is not solely observed by "Chinese" cultures, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year". We have many Asian friends who prefer to wish us a Happy Lunar New Year. Or just, Happy New Year. After all, do we wish one another a Happy Solar New Year?
It's the Year of the Sheep/Goat/Ram, depending on who did the translating. And supposedly it could be a bad year ... Again, depends on how you look at it. Horny goats and rams sound promising ;-). Sheep, not so much.
I am all for goats, horny or otherwise. I can pass on the sheep.
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