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The day before Chinese New Year's Eve is also designated as holiday, but as a bridge holiday, and will be made up on an earlier or later Saturday. Additional bridge holidays may apply, resulting in 9-day or 10-day weekends. [62] [63] [64] 4 (legally) 9–10 (including Saturdays and Sundays) [65] Thailand: Wan Trut Chin (Chinese New Year's Day)
The CCTV New Year's Gala is the most watched television program in the world, with one billion viewers in 2018. [5] As the Chinese New Year's Eve is a time when the family gathers, the typical situation involves a large 3-generation family gathered in front of their TV set while making dumplings for the first New Year's meal.
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 ...
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On 1 January 2010, protesters called for the release of Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo, drafter of Charter 08, who had been sentenced to 11 years in prison just a month earlier. [4] [5] The protest also came four days after Donald Tsang, Hong Kong's chief executive, was given a warning by China’s leadership to resolve deep-rooted conflicts. [2]
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Why does Chinese New Year fall on different dates? Rather than following the western Gregorian Calendar with 365-day years, the Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based the moon's 12 phases ...
A stall in the Yue Xiu New Years Fair in Canton, 2010. Guangzhou is said to be the source of the Lunar New Year Fair. During the rule of the PRC, the Lunar New Year Fair was interrupted only once, for a few years during the Cultural Revolution. Guangzhou's fair is held 3 days before Lunar New Year's Eve. It sells New Year Trees and other goods.
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