celebrating the chinese new year.
 

Magical Lantern Festival

London has been selected as the first city outside the Far East to host the Magical Lantern Festival, a dazzling extravaganza of lights, music theatre, culture and art.
http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/...m_3563278b.jpgThe Terracotta Army Photo: Anthony Upton/The Telegraph

Happy New Year
 

The year of the Monkey:

http://www.chinesefortunecalendar.com/2016/

http://astrologyclub.org/chinese-hor...6-year-monkey/

M

Those lanterns are beautiful Bizi.
I was born in the year of the monkey.

I celebrated Chinese New Year by having yum cha with some friends and then walking through the Sydney Chinatown, both of which were fun :).

It sounds like the chinese new year fell on the same day as lundi gras feb 8th..which was the day before mardi gras. The second new moon after the equinox.
I wonder if that is every chinese new year? I will remember this!
bizi

They are both lunar so they both move around but they apparently do not
move around the same way. For example in 2017

Chinese New Year: Jan 28, 2017
Lundi Gras: February 27, 2017
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/china/2017
http://www.wikidates.org/fr/mardi-gras-2017.html


I guess that some years they match up and other years they do not.

M

That is weird.
lundi gras is the second new moon after the equinox and I thought that was the chinese year too.
I guess I was wrong.
bizi:o

The year is "lunisolar"
 

http://people.howstuffworks.com/cult...-new-year1.htm