Year of the Snake

A big holiday is coming up.....

The Chinese New Year

Everywhere you look you will see:

Lanterns, cherry blossoms, orange trees and the color RED!!!!

The girls asked me a few questions about the holiday, so I Googled it!!!

Here are a few things I found out:

Chinese New Year is the most important of traditional Chinese holidays and it is known as "Spring Festival"

It is a time of gathering with family and start fresh and wish peace and happiness to everyone

It is based of the lunisolar calendar and is usually between January 21 and Feb 20th.

This year it will be February 10th.

Each year has an animal assigned to it based off of a 12 cycle animal zodiac.

2012 was the year of the dragon

2013 will be the snake

There is also an element of wood, fire, earth, metal or water for each year.

Yin and Yang alternates each year

Together this is a Water-Snake-Yin year...the next exact combo of this will be in 60 years.

Life is Good when you can be around new cultural traditions