lunar new year
The race that defined 12 years: a peek into the Chinese zodiac
January 30, 2025My 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 its point of origin, which is something I’ve set…
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Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year celebrations
January 30, 2025The 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. She gives the psychic our birthdays and time of birth.…
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Horoscopes: Lunar New Year edition
January 27, 2025Snake 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 for Reputation (Taylor’s version) to be released! You’ll be…
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Opinions in Dialogue: The commodification of Lunar New Year
February 14, 2024Content 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 special collections based on the upcoming Year of the…
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Happy Seollal!
February 7, 2023It’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 air out the cooking smells, and…
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Around the table: Chinese and Vietnamese Lunar New Year treats
January 31, 2022Bánh 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 offerings for our ancestors before we consume them. I distinctly remember…
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Students talk Lunar New Year
February 4, 2020I 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 at a Chinese restaurant. This isn’t your stereotypical…
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