Chinese New Year celebrations
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BEIJING: Chinese flocked to temples and fairs to pray for good health and fortune on Monday, the first day of the Lunar New Year.
In Beijing, hundreds of thousands of people visited traditional fairs held in parks, as well as Buddhist and Taoist temples offering singing and dance performances and open-air markets selling handicrafts.
Monday marks the first day of the Year of the Monkey ─ the ninth animal on the Chinese zodiac calendar.
The weeklong holiday, known as the Spring Festival in China, is focused on family reunion and is a time when students and migrant workers return to their hometowns.
It is the country's most important holiday, equivalent to Christmas for many in the West.
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Feb 08, 2016 07:20pm
Happy New Year.
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Feb 09, 2016 10:14am
Happy new year to our Chinese brothers and friends.
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Feb 10, 2016 04:30am
In Chinese calendar, year start with New year celebration and then there is no yearly calendar like Christian calendar. I mean there are no months like January, February, etc.
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Feb 11, 2016 07:42am
Chinese calendar almost coincides the Hindu Nepali calendar except it adds the 4 yearly additional month in Hindu calendar in different years. Chinese calendar came from Tibetan & Hindu calendar.
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