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2015 - A Year of The Goat

When Chinese New Year is Celebrated

Officially Chinese New Year is celebrated on Chuyi (初一 /choo-ee/) the very first day of the new year, Chinese New Year's Day, and Chuxi (除夕 /choo-sshee/), the last day of the previous year, Chinese New Year's Eve.

Traditionally though celebrations can start much earlier than Chinese New Year's Eve. Some people start to celebrate from three weeks before. The date is called Laba (腊八 /laa-baa/) the eighth day of the twelfth Chinese month, while more people celebrate from one week before — the 23rd of the twelfth month.

There are also two different closing dates. Officially it is the day when the one week holiday ends, usually the sixth day of Chinese New Year. Traditionally the ending day is the fifteenth day of the first Chinese calendar month — the Lantern Festival. Read more on day-by-day celebrations for this grandest of Chinese festivals.

2015 — a Goat Year

Chinese New Year 2015 will be the year of the goat. For people born in the year of the goat (1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003 ), 2015 is considered an auspicious year. 

"Goats" are said to like to be in groups. They are honest, intimate, and can be easily moved by the misfortune of others... Read more on the personality, career, and love suggestions for those born in the year of the goat and other Chinese zodiac animals by clicking on the links below.

Auld Lang Syne - HAPPY NEW YEAR - 2015

The Carpenters - Top Of The World

What a Wonderful World | Playing For Change

Louis Armstrong – What A Wonderful World Lyrics

I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white
The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky
Are also on the faces of people going by
I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do
They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow
They'll learn much more than I'll never know
And I think to myself what a wonderful world
Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Songwriters: GEORGE DAVID WEISS, GEORGE DOUGLAS, BOB THIELE

What A Wonderful World lyrics © RANGE ROAD MUSIC, INC. , LARRY SPIER MUSIC LLC OBO ABILENE MUSIC LLC , QUARTET MUSIC INC.

IF YOU SNEEZE ON MONDAY...

If You Sneeze on Monday…

Proverb

If you sneeze on Monday, you sneeze for danger;
Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger;
Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter;
Sneeze on a Thursday, something better;
Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow;
Sneeze on a Saturday, see your sweetheart to-morrow.

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