Winter Garden Magazine February 2016 - Daniel & Mindy Hungerford | Page 48

The Year of
the Monkey

Lunar New Year is the most
celebrated holiday in East Asia.
Although Chinese New Year is not
an official holiday in Western
countries, many of the Asian
organizations in America hold
large celebrations and parades to
share its spring festivity.
Cities like Sydney, London, New
York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco have held many successful
Lunar New Year Parades that
attract thousands of crowds each
year.
The official date of this year’s Chinese/Vietnamese Lunar New Year
is Monday, February 8th (which
changes each year because it follows the cycles of the moon) – but
the celebrations begin much
earlier and last almost all month.

This is the year of the Monkey and
those people born in the year of
the Monkey are said to be “smart,
clever and intelligent, especially in
their career and