Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is sometimes called the Lunar New Year. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th. This day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year's Eve is known as Chúxī. It literally means "Year-pass Eve".
Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include Aboriginal Taiwanese people, Koreans, Mongolians, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, and formerly the Japanese before 1873. In Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and other countries with significant Chinese populations, Chinese New Year is also celebrated, largely by overseas Chinese, and has, to varying degrees, become part of the traditional culture of these countries. In Canada, although Chinese New Year is not an official holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Canada Post issues New Year's themed stamps in domestic and international rates.
Although the Chinese calendar traditionally did not use continuously numbered years, its years are now often numbered from the reign of Huangdi outside China. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various writers, causing the year beginning in 2008 to be 4706, 4705, or 4645.
Photos :




The Lantern Festival
Chinese Zodiac : Tiger
Chinese Zodiac : Horse
Chinese Zodiac : Sheep
Christmas is one of the most special times of the year. You will find hundreds of Christmas activities for kids. Have a good look around, find some inspiration and ideas, and enjoy your Christmas time! Our Christmas collection includes Christmas coloring pages, Christmas cards to print, Christmas poems and stories and Christmas games. Christmas is the perfect time for crafting, so have a look and get some inspiration on our Christmas Craft pages!
Horse riding game, horse racing game, horse breeding game. With Howrse, breed your own horses, and manage your own equestrian center ! join a communi of 2 800 000 acive plaers. Join us for free and play on Howrse, create your first horse or pony, name him and find out about his capacities! Register for free on Howrse and take care of your first horse, then make your breeding farm prosper till you get to the top! Take care of one or many horses, Enhance their skills by training them, Win competitions and be ranked amongst the best, Breed your horses and extend your breeding farm! Manage a virtual equestrian center! Build your equestrian center, from meadows to boxes, Lodge breeders' horses, Hire staff to run your center, Organize prestigious competitions, And try to have the most famous center on Howrse!
Check out these fun and easy drawing lessons!! Kids love to draw. Here are some easy step-by-step drawing lessons to learn how to draw cartoon characters. You need a white sheet of paper, a lead pencil, a gum eraser and some felt-tips and colored pencils to color in your drawing ! It's easy! Follow our step by step instructions to create a masterpiece!
Check out these fantastic online coloring pages. Choose the picture you like, pick up the color with the brush and start coloring in your coloring page. Then you can print it out or download to your computer. Enjoy online coloring pages on Hellokids.com !!
Welcome to hellokids ! Hellokids blog is a safe place where kids can create blogs, upload pictures, publish articles, make new friends, join and create groups, fun clubs and more. there's lots to discover and do on hellokids, so have fun exploring all of our features by clicking around !
Discover our new fantastic machine to create a personal coloring pages with your name. You can write on whatever you want than print it out and color with pencils your coloring page. Choose from our background coloring pages with hearts, flowers, guitars, boy or girl themed pictures, ocean and from our collection of fonts. Hurry up, write your name to color and print it out on hellokids.com.