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You read it right, I mean Happy "Niu" Year, not "New" Year.
About 12 hours later, the Chinese Lunar New Year is coming. The year of Ox is coming to us.
Ox is written in Chinese characters as ?, or Niu. Since the pronunciation of Niu is exactly New, and there is a trend to use Niu and New interchangeably among my friends.
So, Happy Niu Year and Happy New Year to all my readers, my friends and family!
For more information about the Chinese Zodiac, check here.
My Wishes
This blog is trying to be a bridge between the western world, and the eastern world, the two distinctly different worlds, and I am trying so hard to help people outside China to understand what is happening here, and what is in people's mind. I hope the greeting brings the happiness and hope of the Chinese New Year to people who do not celebrate this holiday.
From today, the whole China is in a 7 day holiday - the longest holiday in China (of cause accompanied by the largest human migration in the world every year for returning to hometown). I hope my friends who are in holiday enjoy their holiday and relax, and prepare for the new year, and for my friends who don't know the Chinese New Year to also celebrate one more holiday - that is the meaning of holiday: to have people collectively celebrate for the past accomplishment and looking forward to the better future.
I'd like the take the chance for my loyal readers who have been with me for many years (some for as long as 7 years). There are not too many 7 years in life, and daily accompany is a huge accomplishment. I would love to thank everyone who have commented on my blog. You made the blog much more meaningful than just my post, and contributed the majority of the content on this blog. Your continuous feedback, compliment, supplementary, and even challenge helped me so much to understand this world better. It is much more than what I have expected when I started this daily blog 7 years go.
Last, but not least, I would love to say thank you to my close friends and family who we live in the same physical daily world (v.s. the online world). I may devote more time online than offline sometimes these years, and spent the time I may have otherwise spent on coffee or tea time with others. Thanks especially for Yifan and Wendy's support. They have a much less devoted father or husband than others. Thanks.
Wish everyone has a great year of Ox.
by Jian Shuo Wang on January 25, 2009 under Chinese Holidays
Happy New Year, Jian Shuo! I wish you and the rest of your immediate and extended family a year of much happiness, good health, prosperity and, most of all peaceful, co-existence with all the other families in this wonderful world of ours!
Posted by: Carroll on January 26, 2009 1:05 AMHappy New Year to you Jian Shuo and also all the Chinese in the world
Posted by: Tin Chew on January 27, 2009 12:03 AM