Chinese Zodiac
The race that defined 12 years: a peek into the Chinese zodiac
Peak Web January 30, 2025By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture and Sports Editor My family has always celebrated the New Year with confetti and candy at the turn of midnight. At the end of January or the start of February, we go to my grandma’s to celebrate Lunar New Year. Even so, I’ve never followed the Chinese Lunisolar calendar — it wasn’t the main calendar to follow in Canada (where I was born), so it never ranked high on my list of priorities. However, as I’ve grown older, I’ve realized that learning more about this calendar means preserving my culture’s history despite moving from…
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Rooster: a virtual portal to ancient China
Peak Web May 7, 2024By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor A parchment-like scroll is laid out on a flat surface. Perfectly imperfect splotches of watercolour red, gray, and green bleed onto the pages as they shift under your command. Black brushstrokes line up…
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Chinese zodiac signs for the modern generation
EIC March 2, 2015Welcome to 2015, or as it’s known in Chinese mythology, the year of the sheep. According to predictions, the next six months will see a lot of carry-over conflict from the year of the horse, but afterwards things will be…
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