Not everyone here might be Asian, but I just wanted to say: Happy Chinese New Year! 
You may also use this thread to share Chinese Zodiacs. Do you like your animal?
Yes, Happy Chinese New Year to everyone here on the board who celebrates it!
- C-3PO
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! I happened to go to a Chinese restaurant the other night, where they were celebrating and because of this, they gave us lots of free food. Always a good thing. 
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
Omg, I laughed so hard when I found out what my animal was on the zodiac… the monkey!! The reason why it’s so funny is because for a long time, me and my sister had this joke of calling Linguini a monkey, and I am so much like Linguini, it’s not even funny. 
Plus, monkeys are my favorite animals after cats. <3
And no, I am not Asian, but I will celebrate with those who are!
lizardgirl: free Chinese?! yummm!!!
I’m a dog.
Happy Chinese New Year to all of our Chinese users (if we have any… 
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I’m a dragon…AWESOME. Top of the food chain, baby! 
I believe I’m a horse. Some Chinese food would be delicious right about now, but I’m kinda stranded at college Would some ramen suffice? Yeah, I guess not. Wrong country.
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
Gong Hei Fat Choi! (<-- I hope that’s correct) or Happy Chinese New Year!
I was born in the year of the rooster. 
Happy Chinese New Year you guys! So, it’s the year of the Ox.
I’m a rooster by the way (just like CoCo!)
Gong Hey Fa Choy to everyone! I am half chinese, and I am a snake. Chinese food = good.
Happy CNY! My family had a steamboat dinner (we prepared and ate it at home) on CNY eve, and I got to stay up late as a traditional gesture (or rather, an excuse, heheh) by the children for their parents to have a long and prosperous life.
After receiving my hongbao (a red packet given to unwed people containing cold hard cash ) we paid a visit to Chinatown on New Year’s day. It was deserted, since most people are probably wasted or have gone back to their hometowns, so we took a couple of photos and watched a Lion Dance (guys dress up in a Lion costume, and dance to welcome the New Year) at a hotel.
Pretty awesome afternoon. We stayed in for the rest of the day.
I’m a Snake. Yeah, which means I should be intelligent, gifted with words and charming. But I also am supposedly neurotic, critical, and once burned, will seek revenge. Ooh… nasty. 
But I like snakes. I think they’re misunderstood, like cockroaches and rats and lizards (and that was before I watched Wall-E, Ratatouille, Monsters Inc. respectively by the way).
Happy Chinese New Year!
I’m a monkey, I guess…
Happy Chinese New Year, everyone!
It’s now the Year of the Ox, which is my animal, which I think is good luck for me. Oxen are meant to be stable, stubborn, and hard-working. I was taught how to say ‘Happy New Year’ in Chinese recently, but couldn’t get my tongue around it, heheh. One of these years I really should head down to the Chinatown in my city to celebrate it.
thedriveintheatre - You got moolah to celebrate the NY? That’s a pretty sweet tradition right there.
Wishing people who may celebrate it a prosperous and lucky new year! This is actually one of my years. I was born in the year of the Ox.
Rachel - It sure is! <img src=“{SMILIES_PATH}/grinandwink.gif” alt=“;-D” title="Grin and
Wink" /> I got enough dough to make a dozen Chinese dumplings!
[size=85]A reenactment of TDIT 20 years ago, when hongbaos were half his height.[/size]
Thought I’d resurrect an old Bright-Dot-Dasher thread from Archives to discuss one of the biggest festivals in the world (and the biggest annual migration of people to their hometowns). If you guys haven’t guessed it, Chinese New Year (or Lunar New Year) is around the corner!
This is one of my favourite times of the year next to Christmas because back when I was a kid, the family would take a road trip to my parents’ hometown in Penang and visit our grandparents. We would have a big reunion dinner, we’d go around visiting friends and relatives, and we’d get the much-coveted hongbao.
What’s a hongbao, you ask? It literally means “red packet”, and it is a red sleeve of money given by married friends and relatives to kids and unmarried adults. Naturally, this is the most fun part of Chinese New Year my siblings and I would look forward to, although our mum would take our money and put it in the bank anyway. 
But we’d get the opportunity to buy new clothes, see long-forgotten cousins and uncles and aunties and family friends, and generally have a good time.
Now that I’m a bit older, I’d probably be pressured to find a girlfriend and get hooked up so that I don’t keep mooching hongbaos from my folks!
Do any of you celebrate CNY? If you don’t what was your experience of it? Have you seen the lion dances, or attended a reunion dinner and toss lo hei (that’s a fish salad which is meant to symbolise prosperity and longevity)? Do you have Asian friends who celebrate this tradition?
Also, 2013 is a very meaningful year for me, because I was born in the Year of the Snake, and the snake is the Zodiac animal this year again (you can probably guess my age too). The last time I celebrated my Zodiac year was in Indonesia, and I remember taking a picture next to this giant snake decoration at our local diner.
What is your Zodiac year? You can also discuss it in this mentalguru post.
Only two more days to CNY! 
For those who celebrate, Gong he xin xi - Gong xi fa cai! Whether you’re at home or abroad, make sure you take it easy!
蛇年大吉! (I speak not a single word of Chinese… so, uhm, if I got this totally all wrong… sorry.)
Don’t worry Phileas, I can only speak and read “baby level” Chinese. So I can’t tell if you got it wrong either!
but I’m kinda stranded at college Would some ramen suffice? Yeah, I guess not. Wrong country.