Happy Chinese New year everyone. today is the day.

It is now the year of the RAT.

Gong Hei Fat Choy!!!!!!

(Wishing you Happiness and prosperity)

I bet that Chinese is actually something rude

Gong hei fat chio to you too wok :lol:

Our new guy even bought in savouries to celebrate! Noice!

I bet that Chinese is actually something rude

Gong hei fat chio to you too wok :lol:

LOL You spelt it wrong its choy

Did he get the date right this year?

Does some clever person want to explain how to work out when it is Chinese new year?

Chinese New Year starts on the first day of the new year containing a new moon (some sources include New Year's Eve)[citation needed] and ends on the Lantern Festival fourteen days later. This occurs around the time of the full moon as each lunation is about 29.53 days in duration. In the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20. This means that the holiday usually falls on the second (very rarely third) new moon after the winter solstice. In traditional Chinese Culture, lichun is a solar term marking the start of spring, which occurs about February 4.

thank you Wikipedia

Oops, my typo :lol:

Perhaps I have said something even ruder :lol: :lol:

I bet that Chinese is actually something rude

Gong hei fat chio to you too wok :lol:

If caryl has writting Chiu then it would of been rude :lol:

Amazonian... yeah.. got the date right this time :roll:

Wishing all a Happy Chinese New Year :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

ron

Gong Hei Fat Choy to you all as well...

An interesting snippet about Icons associated with the New Year:

'The Koi fish is usually seen in paintings. Decorated food depicting the fish can also be found. It symbolizes surplus or having additional savings so as to have more than enough to live throughout the remaining year.'

retreived from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

Now, just for a laugh, let's start having guesses as to which chinese zodiac animal Wok is...

http://www.rainfall.com/horoscop/chinese.htm

Did your children get little red envelopes today (containing money) or light loads of fireworks today Wok?

Now, just for a laugh, let's start having guesses as to which chinese zodiac animal Wok is...

http://www.rainfall.com/horoscop/chinese.htm

Boar

Sorry Wok

新年快乐！

This is "Happy New Year" in Mandarin guys!

Fraid So.. Kids got their little red packets yesderday and they got even more from their uncles and aunties and Grand parents and great aunts the day before :lol:

They get the best of both worlds. Christmas and Chinese new year. Poor you