According to Chinese astrology, 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit (Hare) while in Vietnamese it is the Year of the Cat. A limerick.

Chinese spring festival.

The way out, each person is different, but the essence is the same. Because home ahead? Still no home? – who said he himself was not flee?

Lucky money.

In fact there is no difference between weekdays and weekends.

This day end up the way it shouldn’t be. Slowly I’m losing my trust and everything I have with him.

Dong Zhi, sometimes spelled as Dongzhi, is the Chinese (and sometimes other Asian group’s) celebration of the Winter Solstice. This holiday is usually held on 22 December, though this date may change yearly depending upon when the Solstice falls, and is often considered only slightly less important than traditional Chinese New Year celebrations.

Families enjoy time spent in making tang yuan
IT IS a merry family affair whenever Lau Kwai Fong makes glutinuous rice balls (tang yuan) for the Winter Solstice festival.

Narrates my maternal grandmother’s following of the Cantonese pietist movement or pei shan shenism culture and insights into the developement of Chinese festival foods and Chinese paranomic detective fiction based on song dynasty Neo-confucious metaphysics.

All of the twelve animals gathered at the river financial institution and jumped in. Unknown to the ox, the rat had jumped upon his back. As the ox was about to jump ashore, the rat jumped off the ox’s again, and gained the race. The pig, who was very lazy, ended up last. That’s the reason the rat is the primary 12 months of the animal cycle, the ox second, and the pig last.