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Chinese New Year's





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2006 is Year of Dog <---I like this pic
Lang Shining

Dog at a Stream

dog stream

  • When is the Chinese New Year's Day in Year 2006?
    •
      January 29, 2006 is the first day of the Chinese new year.

    There are three ways to name a Chinese year:
    1. By an animal (like a mscot).
      2. This year is known as the Year of the Dog.
      There are 12 animal names; so by this system, year names are re-cycled every 12 years. More.
    2. By its Formal Name (Stem-Branch).
      The new year is the year of bingxu.

      In the 'Stem-Branch' system, the years are named in 60-year cycles, and the Name of the Year is repeated every 60 years.
      2006 is the 7th year in the current 60-year cycle.

    3. It is Year 4703 by the Chinese calendar.

    Wow...Chinese New Year's. I can't recall the last time in my life when I've anticipated this holiday so much. Being Chinese, I've taken it for granted all my life. My mom has told me when it was and constantly badgered me about eating certain foods and celebrating it properly on the date.

    Perhaps if when I was younger, my mother had done something more extraordinary like take me out to see the fireworks in Chinatown or watch the dragon dance in the streets, I would have attached a greater sense of worth or sentiment to it. But we never did and instead I found myself sometimes resenting the fact that she always pushed so hard for us to remember these things.

    Ironic how I find myself, at 26, out of the house, living in an Indiana suburb, suddenly craving what I've often spent most of my life pushing away-to be Asian. And for the first time in my life, I'm actually finding ways to proactively express this part of me and seek ways to preserve my God-given culture.

    All the talk of cultural awareness, sensitivity, and love for different ethnicities that I've learned as a key value in my time with InterVarsity has finally come full circle. It's taught me that I not only need to love others of different races and cultures, but I also need to love my own. I need to also love myself for my Chinese-ness.

    I called my mom up today, excited to ring in the New Year's true to the way Chinese people would normally do it-with food. I bought a nice grouper fish (not my first choice, but hey, this ain't Flushing) and asked my mom how to cook it.

    She told me what vegetables to buy, cooking oils, etc. My sister chimed in and also helped to walk me through the process. I cut up some ginger and scallions, poured some cooking wine over the fish, then put salt, soy sauce, and sugar. WOW...it smelled AMAZING. MMMM...

    I also bought a nice big, circular chunk of red bean rice cake, a tray of egg custard tarts to bake in the oven, and...some bulgogi. hahahaha...not exactly Chinese, but hey...again, this ain't Flushing. I gotta improvise here.

    A bunch of the Keynote single staff will be coming over to celebrate it with me, so I'm uber excited. I'm very thankful for these friends of mine who are willing to try different kinds of foods, more traditional to the Chinese culture, and embrace this part of who I am in Christ.

    Sharing food is a HUGE thing for me. It is surely one of my love languages. I love to share food with people. It blesses me so much. So when my friends actually want to share in the food that I eat with me and they like it, it makes me happy :)

    So with all that to say, I want to say Happy Chinese New Year's to my asian brothers and sisters out there celebrating!!! I love you all and miss you much! I'm definitely missing New York right now. But be sure that I'm celebrating it in style here in Indiana. Yes, Midwestern style.



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    新年快樂! Xin Nian Kuai Le!

    And

    恭喜發財! Gung Hay Fat Choy!

    This entry was posted by Christopher Wu, on Sunday, January 29, 2006. You can leave your response.

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