Chinese New Year: Year of the Dragon begins in China in 2024

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Traditionally, Chinese people go home to their families to celebrate the New Year. A program that will last several hours will be broadcast on television. According to the traditional Chinese calendar, the Year of the Rabbit ends on the night between February 9th and February 10th.

When do Chinese celebrate New Year?

Big celebrations are planned

This year Chinese New Year starts on February 10. This is one of the most important holidays not only in China, but also in many other Asian countries that traditionally follow the lunar calendar. Regional customs and traditions at the beginning of the year are accordingly different. Each family usually has its own rituals and traditions – similar to ours at Christmas, but it is first and foremost a family celebration. China experiences the largest annual human migration in the world at New Year’s Eve, as one in five Chinese people does not work where their family is from.

Twelve animal signs

China continues to follow the lunar calendar for its annual holidays. Each Chinese year is assigned to one of twelve animal zodiac signs. These are rat, buffalo, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Naming years after animals helped people who could not write well or do math to indicate their own birth years.

New Year is a very important festival, it takes 15 days from New Year to Lantern Festival (also known as Yuanxiao Festival or Spring Festival) on the 15th day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar. It is celebrated with fireworks and traditional dragon and lion dances. New Year is the most important holiday of the year in China. Since it is determined according to the lunar calendar, it falls on a different date every year (according to our calendar), this year it is February 10th. On the eve of the last day of the old year, the whole family traditionally gathers for a meal.

Chinese Zodiac: What does the Year of the Dragon bring?

The dragon is one of the most popular signs of the zodiac because in Chinese mythology it represents luck, goodness, intelligence and wealth. Anyone born in the year of the Dragon is considered particularly lucky. In addition to an animal, one of the five elements is also assigned each year. This year it’s the Wood element’s turn, so the Year of the Wooden Dragon begins on February 10.

According to the Chinese zodiac, this year will be a lucky year. Since the dragon promises financial success, more than average companies are established in such years.

Celebrities born in the Year of the Dragon

All with years 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 And 2024 They are dragons in the Chinese zodiac. Everyone born in the Year of the Dragon is said to be calm, loving, sociable and kind. Because the Dragon likes to take care of others, he sometimes forgets himself, but with great courage, they can also be competent leaders. But among these signs we find much more singers, musicians, athletes and actors. Additionally, different signs of the zodiac are complemented by an element: wood, fire, earth, metal or water.

Well-known dragons include John Lennon (1940–1980), world-famous co-founder, singer and guitarist of the British rock band The Beatles. Kung fu legend Bruce Lee (1940–1973) was also a native dragon according to the Chinese zodiac. Well-known artists Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) and Andy Warhol (1928–1987) were also dragonborn. Also among the Dragon People are Big Band founder Glenn Miller (1904-1944), civil rights activist Martin Luther King (1929-1968), physicist Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), student leader Rudi Dutschke. we find. (1940–1979), director Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) and politician Vladimir Putin (1952).

Source : Blick