{"id":3086,"date":"2024-02-09T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T12:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2024-01-09T12:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T12:08:35","slug":"lunar-new-year-year-of-the-wood-dragon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/02\/09\/lunar-new-year-year-of-the-wood-dragon\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year -Year of the Wood Dragon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As the Year of the Rabbit comes to an end, the Year of the Dragon, more specifically the Wood Dragon, begins (10 February 2024-28 January 2025).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3087\" width=\"286\" height=\"276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-2.jpg 505w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-2-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 286px) 85vw, 286px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig and each has their own distinctive qualities and fortunes. The Dragon symbolizes power, nobleness, honour, luck and success in traditional Chinese culture.\u00a0The Dragon is a supernatural being with no parallel for talent and excellence.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-1-1024x633.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3088\" width=\"437\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-1-1024x633.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-1-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-1-768x475.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-1.jpg 1115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 85vw, 437px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Celebrations of Chinese New Year traditionally last for&nbsp;16 days, starting from Chinese New Year&#8217;s Eve to the Lantern Festival. The most notable dates of the Lunar New Year 2024 are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Chinese New Year&#8217;s Eve (\u9664\u5915 Ch\u00fax\u00ec)\u00a0on 9 February 2024, the most important celebration, includes the family reunion dinner, and staying up until midnight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chinese New Year&#8217;s Day (\u521d\u4e00 (Ch\u016by\u012b) on 10&nbsp; February 2024, a day for visiting family and relatives, giving presents and visiting ancestors\u2019 graves<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Lantern Festival\u00a0(\u5143\u5bb5\u8282 Yu\u00e1nxi\u0101oji\u00e9) on 24 February 2024, this marks the end of the festival. Lanterns are lit and hung or flown, people watch dragon dances in the streets and children answer lantern riddles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2024\/01\/image-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3089\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Year of the Rabbit comes to an end, the Year of the Dragon, more specifically the Wood Dragon, begins (10 February 2024-28 January 2025). The 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac are Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig and each has their own distinctive qualities and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2024\/02\/09\/lunar-new-year-year-of-the-wood-dragon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lunar New Year -Year of the Wood Dragon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":3090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-annual-celebration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3091,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/revisions\/3091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}