GUNG HAY FAT CHOY

by Victoria Revay | February 17, 2007 at 11:33 am

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Update 19/02/07:

Huge parades and fireworks ushered in the Chinese New Year all over the world. An estimated 14 billion text messages will be sent this week . Most of celebrations took place yesterday. I'm updating this update with photos from Vancouver and Richmond's celebrations, as well as Thailand and Beijing. Here's in interesting article about how Las Vegas celebrates. And as an interesting fact, our very own Leonard Brody and Kaitlin Fontana are also born in the Year of the Pig. In addition to the wonderful character descriptions listed below, they are also said to be a modest, shy characters who prefer to work quietly behind the scenes...

I found some famous people born in the year of the pig on Wikipedia: They're said to be honest, patient and straightforward individuals. Hillary Clinton, the Dalai Lama and Borat are just some of the wonderful people that are born in this lucky sign.

Happy Chinese New Year! It's the Year of the Golden Pig, which falls once every 60 years. The pig is the last of the 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac and symbolizes good luck, but as well turbulence. Soothsayers predict a troubled year ahead, with conflict and natural disasters predominating future forecasts. More than 20 percent of the world's population is celebrating this weekend.

San Francisco's having a big party and so is Vancouver.

The year of the pig is supposed to bring good luck and prosperity. But this time it is a golden pig year, which happens once in six decades.

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at 18:54 on February 17th, 2007

Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy Year of the Pig!

Also known as Chinese New Year and the Spring Festival, Lunar New Year is a two week celebration that begins on the first day of the first month of the Lunar calendar (typically in late January/mid-February) and ends on the full moon 15 days later. It celebrates the family, the earth coming back to life and the start of a new beginning and possibilities. For the first time ever, the skies above Chinatown in New York City will be illuminated with a colorful and spectacular fireworks. Watch for the extraordinary “waterfall” effect, last performed over the Brooklyn Bridge in 1983.