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Old 02-12-2007, 01:34 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Spring Festival the Chinese Thanks Giving

According to Xinhua net Shijiazhuang, February 11 (reporter: Zhang Tao), the traditional Chinese Lunar New Year is approaching, some folklore experts said, Spring Festival is the ancient climate, agriculture, as well as a product that combines the popular believes, It dedication at the end of the harvest in early 2001 ancestor spirits before the altar of God or fantasy, is a concentrated appreciation of nature and ancestors. Therefore, the Chinese Spring Festival is the "Thanksgiving Day."

Li Hanqiu,a member of the National Politics Committee, explain that every day and every folk activities in the Spring Festival, they all embodied thanksgiving ideas nature, from the first day of the first lunar month to the seventh day. were respectively known as "Chicken Day", "dog days" of "Pig Day," "Sheep Day," "bull Day," "Race Day," "ever" On behalf of the seven categories of biotechnology, they put the human birthday behind the other animals, the ancestors treat the natural expression of itself, show their respect natural feeling. more details and other Chinese customs are on '+document.title+'
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I am so ignorant of things like this.

When is the first day of the Chinese New Year? Is this it? Is this like when one starts to say the year of the dragon, dog, rat, sheep, monkey, etc?
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sun nin fy lok and xin nein kuai le!

And most important of all for this particular celebration, gung hay fat choy and gong xi fa cai!
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