It’s the roaring Year of Tiger this 2010!!
Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year is the first and the most important traditional Chinese festival of the year!
Chinese festivals can be grouped into 2: one based on the Lunar Calendar, i.e. the moon; and the other based on the Jie Qi (节气), i.e. the 24 seasons.
Hence, festivals based on Jie Qi, like Dong Zhi and Qing Ming, will almost always fall on the same date in the Gregorian calendar every year. And festivals based on the Lunar Calendar (in fact a Lunisolar Calendar by Chinese), like New Year and Mid-Autumn festival, will go according to the Lunar Calendar, which may shuffle each year in the Gregorian Calendar.
Most celebration customs and rituals are basically to welcome luck and to repel evils!
Being the second largest ethnic group in Malaysia, Chinese New Year is celebrated widely in the nation, and the Capital welcomes a brief moment of peace.. less crowd and no traffic jam..
GONG XI FA CAI!!
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