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For most of you, 2016 has already begun. However, on the lunar calendar, the new year is on Monday, February 8. This lunar new year is celebrated by several different Asian ethnicities.
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As some of you might have wondered, this year, 2016, is the year of the monkey according to the zodiac symbols. There are twelve symbols in total. If you were born in 2004, you are a monkey. Chinese superstition is that when your year comes around, that year will be of bad luck. The best way to avoid the bad luck is to offer something red to an elder.
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This year is said to be the year of the monkey. There are actually five types of monkeys.
•Fire Monkey (2016, 1956)
•Wood Monkey (2004, 1944)
•Earth Monkey (1968, 1908)
•Gold Monkey (1980, 1920)
• Water Monkey (1992, 1932)
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During the Lunar New Year, there are many things that you should not do. If you wash your hair, wash your clothes, or sweep the floor, then you will wash away all of the luck that you have gotten during the new year. If you eat porridge, it will bring poverty, and if you do needle work (such as sewing), then it will reduce the amount of money you have. Also, you should not use unlucky words such as "death."
To the Chinese, red represents good fortune, and so around the New Year the color can be seen everywhere in Chinese cities. For example, red lanterns would be hung on doorways. Red envelopes are filled with cash and given by adults people to children. They dislike the number four because it is considered unlucky because it sounds like the Chinese word for death.
All About the eats!! :P
There are so many foods that Asians eat during new years. Some are wrapped in banana leaves, like banh Chung and banh Tet. The history of banh Chung is that people used to think the earth was square. The rice, beans, and pork in this cake is to represent a part of the earth. Some foods are so simple too! For example, the Chinese eat tangerines and oranges just for good luck!i
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ASIANS BELIEVE THEY SHOULD CLEAN AND DECORATE THEIR HOUSE until the New years eve, to drive bad spirits away and bring good spirits to them. They have ceremonies to farewell gods like the "kitchen god". They also give away red envelopes filled with money to symbolize luck and health. Some sick people may also break their medicine pots as well in the belief that this will cure their illness.
Fun Fact:
Supposedly, people born in the year of the monkey are most compatible with those born in the years of the ox and rabbit.
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Happy new year in Chinese...
Xinnian kuaile
happy New year in Vietnamese...
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