
Chinese New Year, a time of feasting, family and firecrackers, the biggest holiday for the Chinese community arrives on Feb. 10 this year according to lunar calculations. More than a billion people around the world will be ushering in the Year of the Snake with festivities that last for a few weeks after new year’s day.
Food is central to Chinese New Year especially eating lucky-sounding dishes believed to bring prosperity and good fortune in the new year. A whole fish, for example, symbolizes a good start and end to the year, while sweet sticky rice represents a family sticking together. Chinese restaurants will be packed so make your reservations early.People will be buying fresh flowers and plants to bring home to symbolize rebirth and new growth, so flower markets will be springing up in malls and stores.
The Year of the Snake may be full of “challenges” and “conflicts” according to one feng shui master. But people born under the sign of the snake (1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013) will be able to approach it with their characteristically thoughtful and wise logic, charm and balance.
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