Each year we kill the Kitchen God and each year he rewards us for our faith.

On 29 January the Chinese New Year’s Day to pray for my grandmother YADE Buddha Temple, a happy year. The whole city was bathed in warm light, when we arrived.

Source is too old to be prosecuted. Several explanations are. We all agree that the word Nian, which in modern Chinese year, only that originally the name of a monster beast began to persecute people for the night before the new year.

The Spring Festival is the most important festival for Chinese people, when all family members gather, such as Christmas in the West.

As you know, it’s still Lunar New Year (Tiger Year) now. I have been receiving a lot of phone greetings from friends regarding "tiger", sounds as if we can interact easily with the tigers, so I suddenly have the inspiration to write something here….

My favorite food is dumplings, jiao zi in Chinese pronunciation. It is a traditional Chinese food and essential during holidays in Northern China.

The Chinese Calender follows a 60 year cycle where each of 12 animals is repeated five times in a cycle. Depending on the year that you were born your Chinese Animal is determined.

About the mysticism surrounding one of the Chinese astrological animals. May-lin is very fascinated by the stories told by her granny and her granny hails from China with lots of legends about Princes and Princesses from different dynasties conquering lands and building empires for their descendants.

Chinese lunar New Year 2009 is started with cloudy sky.

When you go to Chinese restaurant, you will find Chinese Zodiac either in their menu or paper table mat. Check it out and discover your own animal sign. The Chinese new year is approaching, it will be the year of OX. Meantime, it is near the end of the year of Rat. Rat? When is the year of Cat? Or is there a year of Cat?