Chinese Lunar New Year: The history and how it's celebrated
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Chinese Lunar New Year will get its start on Feb. 1, 2022, and this year it’s the year of the water tiger.
The lunar-based celebration is connected to the second new moon of the year, which typically lands sometime between the end of January and mid-February. Records show that the half-month event dates back to the oracle bone readings from the 14th century B.C. when the Shang Dynasty was in power.
Each year is represented by the Yang or Yin form of one of the five elements and one of the 12 animals from the Chinese zodiac, which move in a series of cycles. The zodiac’s five elements are wood, fire, earth, metal and water and the 12 animal signs are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.
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