Hello you all. I wanted to wish you every single thing that you desire on this Chinese New Year, so even though some of you are living all around the world with different time zones, I still wanted to show you what this new year is all about so I translated (excuse my misspells) an article I did in Spanish.
GUNG HAY FAT CHOY!
PROSPEROUS YEAR OF WOOD GOAT
This new Chinese year will be a very interesting year, especially for people who were born on that sign. The year of the Goat – will be your year! The year of the Goat 2015 will be under the wood element and begins today 19 February 2015 and it goes until 7 February 2016, marking the year 4713 of the Chinese calendar
As the goat always tends to climb the cliffs and mountains it is recommended this year that we will keep our tenacity in whatever endeavor that we undertake so that we could success in anything we put our heart to. The power of this animal will points us to face some risks but if what we want is important to us, just insisting on it and not giving up, we will be rewarded for sure. This Year of the Goat is a year to resolve, conclude and close theoutstanding issues and to continue to insist until your goal is reached. The biggest difficulty is that to ascend, as the goat does, we also have to overcome, in a different way of course the difficulties and insecurities of climbing the social, personal and economical rough slope, rocks hindering and fear of the abyss in our case, the fear of failure or defeat!
The attributes of the goats are persistence, control, effort, strength and patience, lots of patience to beat the ascend and descend.
This is a year that demand optimism, creativity and innovation, as there are thousands of ways to climb the mountain. Open-minded and positive will help achieve that you desired. As goats are active and daring, best thing is to join together, inviting friends and family to be participle to your plans so they help you to motivate and achieve your goals through co-operation of others to assess group work and solidarity. Different rituals are observed for the Orientals at the entrance of the new year, but it is not necessary to be Asian to follow this tradition, you will only need to prepare yourselves to observe this holiday with a well clean house and our best red outfit
The houses are decorated with signs that say “GUNG FAT CHOY” which is that vote of happiness which predicts us attract joy, health and prosperity on this day.
In the Chinese tradition on new year’s day the people using a piece of Red clothing to attract good luck and also celebrated with a family reunion, hosting a meal full of traditional dishes that is offered both to the living as their ancestors already deceased. This food is organized in order to celebrate around the stove (weilu) shaped very intimate to honor the family unit. With it the ancestor are honoured by all the wisdom they gave to the present generations. The traditional dishes for the day are • Chicken and fish to symbolize happiness and prosperity, especially when served whole • Dishes with oranges represent wealth and wedge luck that in China many fruits are eaten • Noodles representing longevity that is that they should not cut to eat • Ducks to represent fidelity and eggs to attract fertility • Avoid white foods since this color symbolizes death and bad luck
To find the sign that you belong to, you can find it in the following table:
You are the sign of the rat if you were born in the years 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984 and 1996, 2008. You are ambitious, hardworking, entrepreneurial, intelligent, determined and practical.
You are the sign of the ox if you were born in the years 1913, 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009. You’re patient, courageous, very conventional, you have reliable and defined purposes.
You are the sign of the tiger if you were born in the years 1914, 1926, 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998, 2010. You’re entertaining, quick, passionate and dangerous.
You are the sign of the Hare or rabbit if you were born in the years 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987,1999, 2011. You are sensitive, intuitive, generous and discreet.
You’re the sign of DRAGON if you were born in the years 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012. Enthusiastic, daring, encouraging, successful and materialistic.
You’re the sign of the snake if you were born in the years 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989,2001, 2013. You are smart, mysterious, intuitive, orderly and sophisticated.
You are the sign of the horse if you were born in the years 1918, 1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014. You are a loyal, hardworking, energetic, and very friendly person.
You are the sign of the goat if you were born in the years 1919, 1931, 1943, 1955, 1967, 1979, 1991, 2003, 2015. You are peaceful, adaptable, honest, creative and sincere.
You are the sign of the monkey if you were born in the years 1920, 1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016. You are independent, lively, insightful, entertaining, daring and creative.
You are the sign of the ROOSTER if you were born in the years 1921, 1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017. You are brave, protective, striking, capable and honest.
You are the sign of the dog if you were born in the years 1922, 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018. You are faithful, responsible, sensitive, imaginative, moral and reliable.
You’re the sign of pig or wild BOAR if you were born in the years 1923, 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, 2007, 2019. You are sensuous, generous, cheerful, tolerant, lucky, anxious,
To find out which is the element that suits you, it must be fixed at the end of the year who was born
If your birth year ends in 0 and 1 its element is METAL
If your birth year ends in 2 and 3 its element is WATER
If your birth year ends in 4 and 5 your element is WOOD
If your birth year ends in 6 and 7 his element is FIRE
If your birth year ends in 8 and 9 its element is EARTH