What's Lunar New Year ?

How to calaulate the Lunar of month and date?
For the Chinese calendar, the first day of a month is the day when a new moon appears in a particular time zone. And the reason why the lunar calendar was built is because of agriculture.

Long time ago, our ancients in China in order to help their farmers to calculate the growing period of their products. Then, they casted a calender. That's the Lunar Calendar.


How to calaulate the Lunar year?
We are not calaulate by figure. There are two cycles, which are the decimal cycle and the duodecimal cycle, that we can match together. For example, the decimal cycle -- 天干 (甲, 乙, 丙, 丁, 戊, 己, 庚, 辛, 壬, 癸) and the duodecimal cycle -- 地支（子，丑，寅，卯，辰，巳，午，未，申，酉，戌，亥), the twelve characters by which the Chinese reckon the hours of a day; the combination of one character from decimal and another from the duodecimal forms a term by which a year or date is known; the orderly series of such possible combinations yield sixty different terms to designate a cycle of sixty years; when one cycle ends, another begins all over again.



Which one do you celebrate?
In fact, we celebrate both. However, the big day for us is Lunar New year. We can accept the red envelopes. And this is a happy time for children. Because the gift in the red envelopes is money.

Spring Festival couplets

~ Spring Festival couplets ~

Red is the most popular color during the New Year. People likes to wear red clothes, red bags, even red underwears. Because red represent luck.

So do spring festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets refer to Spring Festival couplets refer to antithetical couplets written on scrolls which convey people's wishes for peace, fortune and good-luck with concise and matching words.

Where do we post these?
The couplets can be pasted on doorposts, door panels and lintel, as well as on furniture and screen wall. couplets written on scrolls which convey people's wishes for peace, fortune and good-luck with concise and matching words.
The couplets can be pasted on doorposts, door panels and lintel, as well as on furniture and screen wall.

Origin

The custom of writing couplets on peach panels started in the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907), and became popular in the Song dynasty (960-1279). The couplets earned their official name from Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor who opened the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and had become a form of art by the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

This year is a rat year. So we always draw words or images about mice on Spring Festival couplets.