Chinese New Year.Chinese New Year Chinese New Year (Simplified Chinese: ; Traditional Chinese: ; Pinyin: Chūnjié), or Spring Festival is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar Chinese calendar n. The traditional lunisolar calendar of the Chinese people, based on 24 seasonal segments each about 15 days long. An intercalary month is occasionally necessary to reconcile the lunar year with the solar year. . 2006 will celebrate the Year of the Dog. Chinese Chinese, subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages (see Sino-Tibetan languages), which is also sometimes grouped with the Tai, or Thai, languages in a Sinitic subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language stock. months are reckoned by the lunar calendar Noun 1. lunar calendar - a calendar based on lunar cycles calendar - a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year , with each month beginning on the darkest day. New Year festivities fes·tiv·i·ty n. pl. fes·tiv·i·ties 1. A joyous feast, holiday, or celebration; a festival. 2. The pleasure, joy, and gaiety of a festival or celebration. 3. traditionally start on the first day of the month and continue until the fifteenth In music, a fifteenth (sometimes abbreviated 15ma) is the interval between one musical note and another with one-quarter or quadruple the frequency. It corresponds to two octaves. It is the fourth harmonic. , when the moon is brightest. in China, people may take weeks of holiday from work to prepare for and celebrate the New Year. At Chinese New Year celebrations people wear red clothes, decorate with poems on red paper, and give children "lucky money" in red envelopes A Red envelope or Red packet is a monetary gift which is given in Chinese society during holiday or special occasions. Usage Red envelopes are often presented on social and family occasions such as a Chinese marriage wedding receptions or a holiday such as Chinese . Red symbolizes fire, which according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. legend, can drive away bad luck.
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New Year's Day
Japanese Festival of
New Year Sleep Day
(1-3)
Alfred
Stieglitz, 1864
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Rock and Roll Save the Eagles
Day Day
Barbara Eva Hesse1 1936
Hepworth, 1903
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Winnie the
Pooh Day
Jaune Quick- Dr. Martin A.A.Mine, 1882
to-See Smith, Pieher King,
1940 Jr. Holiday
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National
Pie Day
Edouard Manet, Robert
1832 Motherwell,
1915
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Chinese New
Year
Barnett Newman,
1905
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Epiphany or
Three Kings
Day
Yves Tanguay, Albert Bierstadt,
1900 1830
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The Simpsons
Premiered
"A hundred bucks
for a comic book?
Who drew it--Michaelangelo?"
--Homer Simpson
John Singer
Sargent, 1856
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"A work of art
which did not
begin in
emotion is
not art"
--Cezanne
Paul Cezanne,
14839
Clementine
Hunter, 1887
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Jackson Pollock 1912
Claes Oldenburg 1929
Alice Neet, 1900
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