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In communities that celebrate Chinese New Year for 15 days, the fourth day marks the beginning of corporate "spring dinners" and the return to normal business operations. In other regions with a longer Chinese New Year holiday, celebrations include welcoming back the gods who were previously sent off on this day.
March 12 is the 71st day of the year ... New Zealand politician, ... 1976 – Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, ...
In Singapore, Chinese New Year is the only traditional Chinese public holiday, likewise with Malaysia. Each region has its own holidays on top of this condensed traditional Chinese set. Mainland China and Taiwan observe patriotic holidays, Hong Kong and Macau observe Christian holidays, and Malaysia and Singapore celebrate Malay and Indian ...
The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade, [86] sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade. Miss Chinatown USA is traditionally present at the parade, as is a Golden Dragon which ...
March 16, 1976: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns five days after surviving vote of confidence in Commons [1] March 9, 1976: Forty-three skiers killed in Italy when aerial cable car falls 200 feet March 15, 1976: First "carpool lanes" in the United States are inaugurated. The following events occurred in March 1976:
According to some schools of Feng Shui, if you are born after Chinese New Years but before or even on the first day of Lichun you are considered the zodiac animal of the previous Chinese lunar year. [4] In the lunisolar calendar, New Year's Day might be before or after Lichun. A year without Lichun is called 無春年 (no spring year ...
Chinese New Year is a celebration based on the ancient Chinese lunar calendar. It typically lasts about 16 days and is a time for honoring deities and ancestors, as well as for hosting family ...
New Year's Day: 元旦: Yuándàn: 1st day of 1st Lunisolar month: 4 days (Chinese New Year's Eve, 1st, 2nd and 3rd days of 1st Lunisolar month) [1] Spring Festival [a] (aka Chinese New Year) 春节: Chūnjié: Usually occurs in late January or early February. The most important holiday, celebrating the start of a new year 5 April (4 or 6 April ...