Recently I returned from a trip in China right after their Spring Festival, which marks the start of their Lunar New Year. As you may know, there are a dozen characters that make up the revolving zodiac representatives of each new year. Many in China can tell your...
In China, by far the largest holiday is the Lunar New Year, called the Spring Festival or Chun Jie in Chinese. It is based on the moon, so it doesn’t happen on the same day each year. It occurs at the end of January or the first of February. Some of the main customs...
In China, by far the largest holiday is the Lunar New Year, called the Spring Festival or Chun Jie in Chinese. It is based on the moon, so it doesn’t happen on the same day each year. It usually occurs at the end of January or the beginning of February. Some of the...
There is something that international travelers have come to anticipate and enjoy, and that is how signs are used and translated. Some signs are humorous because the words chosen are very flowery and show a great vocabulary, but most native speakers wouldn’t have...
In China, the largest holiday, by far, is the Lunar New Year or what we call Chinese New Year in America. It’s called the Spring Festival or Chun Jie in China. The holiday is based on the moon, so it doesn’t happen on the same day each year. It occurs at the end of...