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4 unusual facts about lunar new year


Amorgos oil spill

The second factor was the observance of the Lunar New Year holidays, making it difficult for companies to hire local residents to clean up the mess.

Lunar New Year

Ugadi and Gudi Padwa, Lunisolar New Year's Day for the Deccan people of India

Nostoc commune

flagelliforme is known as "facai" in China which forms part of the food traditionally served at the Lunar New Year.

Sexagenary cycle

In China, the cyclic year normally changes on the Chinese Lunar New Year.


Dance Dance Dragon

As Lunar New Year 2012 marks the year of the Dragon, the film explores the Chinese's age-old obsession with the Dragon and having children on a "Dragon year" (see Chinese zodiac).

Him Mark Lai

Upon their return, the students create a visual display of their genealogy and display it at the Chinese Culture Center during Lunar New Year.

Hoàng Minh Chính

He died at his home in Hanoi on February 7, 2008, aged 85, on the first day of the Tet Lunar New Year.

Paris By Night 85

Like its two direct cousin programs, Paris By Night 85 featured traditional Vietnamese Lunar New Year, and Tết songs.

Paris By Night 85: Xuân Trong Kỷ Niệm (English Translation: A Spring of Memories) is a Paris By Night program that was filmed at Studio 40 at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre on Saturday, October 21, 2006 and is released to a 2-disc DVD format on Thursday, January 25, 2007, just in time for the Lunar New Year celebrations.

Soul of Shaolin

Soul of Shaolin was a theatrical event presented on Broadway by Nederlander Worldwide Entertainment to coincide with the celebration of the Lunar New Year in January 2009.

Vietnamese art

On special occasions such as the Lunar New Year, people would go to the village teacher or scholar to make them a calligraphy hanging (often poetry, folk sayings or even single words).

Yu Liang

Yu, humiliated, offered to have himself demoted, and while Emperor Cheng refused, he became distressed and died on lunar new year day in 340.


see also

Traditional Vietnamese dance

It is performed primarily at traditional festivals such as Tết (Lunar new year) and Tết trung thu (Mid-Autumn Festival), but also during other occasions such as the opening of a new business.