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    the chinese new year follows a lunar cycle

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese welcomed the arrival of the Year of the Snake with raucous celebrations on Saturday, setting off a cacophony of firecrackers in the streets and sending fireworks blazing into the sky to bring good fortune.

    Celebrations will carry on into the early hours of Sunday, officially the first day of the Lunar New Year.
    Residents of Beijing braved freezing temperatures to let off brightly colored fireworks, with clouds of smoke in the air, red wrappings from firecrackers covering streets and explosions rattling windows.
    A plea by the government to set off fewer fireworks to help deal with Beijing's notorious air pollution seemed to fall on deaf ears.
    "Every year we set off fireworks and this year will be no different," said Lao Guo, 45, a convenience store worker.
    "People won't not set them off because of pollution. It's the custom."
    Firecrackers are believed to scare off evil spirits and entice the god of wealth to people's doorsteps once New Year's Day arrives.
    China's cosmopolitan business hub, Shanghai, saw similar scenes, though not everyone had reason for cheer.
    "Business now is very weak. It's related to the financial crisis," said Chen Yongliang, who used to run a street stall. "The U.S. and other major countries have seen their economies slide and we've gone with them."
    Maintaining a tradition of leaders visiting ordinary folk at this time of year, Communist Party chief Xi Jinping, who takes over as president in March from Hu Jintao, met subway construction workers in Beijing ahead of the week-long holiday.
    "Migrant workers have been the labor force behind China's reform and opening up ... so we must look after you properly," Xi said in comments carried on state television.
    "I hope the construction firm has organized some new year entertainment for you so you can have a happy holiday," added Xi, who has tried to cultivate an easy-going, man-of-the-people image since becoming party boss in November.
    People born in the year of the snake, including Xi, are believed to be thoughtful and stylish yet complex characters.
    Practitioners of the ancient art of feng shui say the year ahead will see financial markets slither higher as optimism grows, though the risk of disasters and territorial disputes in Asia also looms.
    The lunar new year is marked by the largest annual mass migration on earth, as hundreds of millions of migrant workers pack trains, buses, aircraft and boats to spend the festival with their families.
    For many Chinese people, this is their only holiday of the year.
    Almost half of Beijing's population of 20 million have left the city for the holiday, according to state media.
    Taboos abound over this period. Crying on New Year's Day means you will cry for the rest of the year, and washing your hair signifies washing away good luck.
    Woe betide those who clean on new year's day, for you will be sweeping away good fortune in the year ahead.
    (Additional reporting by Sally Huang and Beijing newsroom, and John Ruwitch in SHANGHAI; Editing by Robert Birsel)






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    There has been a gradual buildup of drums for about a week now. Drum 'bands' (several big drums and a couple of gongs) on the backs of flatbeds, to scare away devils and demons and things. The fireworks started on the stroke of midnight (Saturday) with the usual competition where we are, between two small villages to see whose fireworks last the longest. Fireworks have been illegal since the sixties and the family with the most crackers, in the closest of the two villages, has two motorcycle cops and a police station clerk! Tomorrow celebrations will continue with lion dance groups going from house to house and shop to shop and putting on a spectacular performance in the open air shopping centre hopping from pole to pole to a cacophony of gongs and drums. Shopkeepers open their doors to encourage the lion to dance inside (by prior financial arrangement) and will have hung lettuce leaves above the doorways, representing money and good fortune, for the lion to grab. This afternoon people were out in their new clothes, ladies in red and gold jackets and the young children in suits of gold satin or long padded coats of red or blue and gold.
    This evening it is dinner with the father's parents and tomorrow with the mother's, then I think it is Tuesday, the third day of New Tear, no one goes out because it is no argument day. (I may be wrong on the day. The whole thing confuses me). We attended a lunch today and there is another on the 18th with a banquet dinner on 20th. This is where we take a small packet of biscuits in the wife's handbag to relieve the monotony of Chinese New Year food. (Dont tell anyone though!)

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    Happy New Year of the Snake, Low! And many more.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Lowaicue View Post
    There has been a gradual buildup of drums for about a week now. Drum 'bands' (several big drums and a couple of gongs) on the backs of flatbeds, to scare away devils and demons and things. The fireworks started on the stroke of midnight (Saturday) with the usual competition where we are, between two small villages to see whose fireworks last the longest. Fireworks have been illegal since the sixties and the family with the most crackers, in the closest of the two villages, has two motorcycle cops and a police station clerk! Tomorrow celebrations will continue with lion dance groups going from house to house and shop to shop and putting on a spectacular performance in the open air shopping centre hopping from pole to pole to a cacophony of gongs and drums. Shopkeepers open their doors to encourage the lion to dance inside (by prior financial arrangement) and will have hung lettuce leaves above the doorways, representing money and good fortune, for the lion to grab. This afternoon people were out in their new clothes, ladies in red and gold jackets and the young children in suits of gold satin or long padded coats of red or blue and gold.
    This evening it is dinner with the father's parents and tomorrow with the mother's, then I think it is Tuesday, the third day of New Tear, no one goes out because it is no argument day. (I may be wrong on the day. The whole thing confuses me). We attended a lunch today and there is another on the 18th with a banquet dinner on 20th. This is where we take a small packet of biscuits in the wife's handbag to relieve the monotony of Chinese New Year food. (Dont tell anyone though!)

    Kung Hei Fat Choi
    Sun Yee Fai Lok
    ssssssssssssssssssssssnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnake

    have you ever been in waikiki, honolulu, hi for chinese new year?

    it is literally a blast...or at least it was last time i was there for it...about 3 decades ago
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