lunar new year
The race that defined 12 years: a peek into the Chinese zodiac
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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Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebrations
January 30, 2025By: Kayle Cole, SFU Student, and Jessica Liu, SFU Student The spiritualism of Vietnamese celebrations — Kayle Cole My Lunar New Year celebrations start when my mother calls her Vietnamese fortune teller to ask questions about everybody in the family.…
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Horoscopes: Lunar New Year edition
January 27, 2025By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture and Sports Editor Snake 1965 (Us???), 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025 Snakes, 2025 is going to be your year. Want to know why? Since this year is the year of the snake, it’s time…
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Opinions in Dialogue: The commodification of Lunar New Year
February 14, 2024By: Izzy Cheung, Staff Writer and Kelly Chia, Editor-in-Chief Content warning: mentions of racism. With all the Christmas hype leaving our local malls, storefronts are now being swamped with limited-edition Lunar New Year promotions. Anything from red-and-gold advertisement schemes to…
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Happy Seollal!
February 7, 2023By: Gem Yelin Lee, Copy Editor It’s January 21, and I come home to my mother on her eighth consecutive hour in the kitchen, preparing ingredients and cooking time-consuming dishes. The apartment is cold from windows being left open to…
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Need to Know, Need to Go: Jan 31–Feb 13
February 1, 2022By: Gurleen Aujla, Peak Associate World Community Film Festival | February 5–13 | Prices Vary | Online and in-person Attend the 31st World Community Film Festival from the comfort of your own home! A non-profit based on Vancouver Island is…
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Around the table: Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year treats
January 31, 2022By: Nancy La, News Editor and Sara Wong, Arts & Culture Editor Bánh Tét Growing up in Vietnam, there is no Lunar New Year without some bánh tét in my house. My parents usually have them up on the altar as…
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Students talk Lunar New Year
February 4, 2020By: Madeleine Chan, Kelly Chia, Vivien Ying Qi Li I have come to realize that the Lunar New Year represents a renewal of sorts for me. Every Lunar New Year, my paternal grandparents treat my family and I to a meal…
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