Gōngxǐ fācái!!! Happy Chinese New Year!!! *hands dumplings and fortune cookies around*
Today begins the year of the Rat, my Ben Mīng Nián, or animal year-
I don't know if anyone else celebrates it, but we have a big party at my mum's house and a good ol' big Chinese meal. Must....eat.....NOODLES!!!!!!
Nóngĺ xīnnián, also known as Spring Festival, denotes the beginning of the new Lunar Year, on the New Moon each February. Funny, because there are lots of birthdays that seem to have fallen on this date this year ^^