About The Chinese New Year
For Chinese the New Year is Christmas, the 4th of July and your birthday all wrapped up into one long 15 day celebration. The New year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the New Year is called the Lantern Festival. On this day children carry lanterns and households and businesses display lanterns.
The New Year is a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors. Many superstitions still exist during the holiday. Such as if you cry on New Year's day you will cry all through the year. Therefore, children are tolerated and are not spanked, even if they are naughty. Also the first person you meet on New Years Day will have a significant impact on your fortune the coming year. It is a lucky sign to see or hear songbirds or red-colored birds.
New Year's food include fish, to represent togetherness and abundance, and a chicken for prosperity. Noodles should be uncut, as they represent long life. Dumplings or wontons are very popular in North China.
2002 is the year of the Horse
Horses are outgoing, athletic, articulate, sentimental, confident, hard working, independent. May be a little selfish, egocentric, hot-tempered, rebellious, unemotional, rude, impatient, and pragmatic.
In China the nomads use horses to move to more fertile grounds. Such is the nature of those born under the sign of the horse. They are in a constant state of motion. Horses seem to always move from one activity and relationship to the next.
Horses tend to be very hard driving people willing to take command of any situation that is placed before them. This Sign really knows how to motivate others and get a lot accomplished. However at times they can be overbearing and not team players.
Horses are fond of travel and desire to see the world. They also crave intimacy and love. However relationships can make the horse feel fenced in giving them a desire to escape relationship. However once they find some peace within themselves, they can curb their wandering tendencies and learn to appreciate what's in their own stable.
Horses are most compatible with those born under the sign of the Dog and Tiger
Famous Horses: Neil Armstrong, Chopin, Sean Connery, Kevin Costner, James Dean, Kirk Douglas, Clint Eastwood, Ella Fitzgerald, Harrison Ford, Jimi Hendrix, Lenin, Paul McCartney, Nelson Mandela, Rembrandt, Barbra Streisand, Tammy Wynette, Boris Yeltsin,
Previous years of the horse: 1990, 1978, 1966, 1954, 1942, 1930, 1918 and1906
