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When is Chinese New Year 2024? Chinese New Year 2024 starts on Feb. 10 and ends on Feb. 24. ... What does it mean to be a Lunar New Year? ... The dragon is a Chinese symbol for good fortune, ...
A woman takes a smartphone photo of a dragon figure on display outside a luxury fashion retail store in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon on the Chinese calendar. (AP ...
The Year of the Dragon, which began on Feb. 10, 2024, ended Tuesday to begin the Year of the Snake. Snakes in Chinese mythology aren't manifestations of wickedness or evil as in Western cultures.
The Earthly Branches (also called the Terrestrial Branches or the 12-cycle [1]) are a system of twelve ordered symbols used throughout East Asia. They are indigenous to China, and are themselves Chinese characters , corresponding to words with no concrete meaning other than the associated branch's ordinal position in the list.
The Azure Dragon on the national flag of China during the Qing dynasty, 1889-1912 The Azure Dragon on the Chinese national emblem, 1913-1928 Azure Dragon display at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, during Lunar New Year 2024. The Azure Dragon (Chinese: 青龍 Qīnglóng), also known as Qinglong in Chinese, is one of the Dragon Gods who represent ...
Zodiac dragon. The dragon (simplified Chinese: 龙; traditional Chinese: 龍; pinyin: lóng; Jyutping: lung; Cantonese Yale: lùhng) is the fifth of the 12-year cycle of animals that appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
People walk past by a figure of a dragon placed at the entrance of a store at a tourist area in Beijing on February 7, 2024, ahead of the Lunar New Year of the Dragon which falls on February 10.
Each of the creatures is most closely associated with a cardinal direction and a color, but also additionally represents other aspects, including a season of the year, an emotion, virtue, and one of the Chinese "five elements" (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). Each has been given its own individual traits, origin story and a reason for being.