Xin Nian Kuai Le! Mandarin: Happy New Year.
Happy Chinese New Year, THE SPRING FESTIVAL.
The Spring Festival celebrates the Earth coming back to life and the beginning of plowing and planting. Because the Chinese use a lunar calendar, the date of the Spring Festival changes each year. It takes place at some time during the end of January or the beginning of February.
This year it falls on February 7.
Rat is the first of the 12 Chinese Zodiac signs, with all the characteristics of the number 1... interesting alignment.
Earth is the central of the elements.
I was born in the year of the POSITIVE/YANG EARTH DOG.
