Of all the traditional Chinese festivals, the new year is perhaps the most elaborate, colorful, and important. This is a time for the Chinese to congratulate each other and themselves on having passed through another year, a time to finish out the old, and to welcome in the new year. The Chinese New Year is celebrated on the first day of the First Moon of the lunar calendar. The corresponding date in the solar calendar varies from as early as January 21st to as late as February 19th. This time they will celebrate on February 7th and this will be The Year Of The Rat.
Rat has strong associations with material success such as wealth and other luxuries of life. It is their aggression, charm, hard work, discipline and passionate nature that gives an edge to their persona in comparison to others. There are good chances of Rats being wealthy and professionally successful in their lives. They are quick, energetic and mold themselves easily according to the situation, which makes them excellent problem solvers too. Unlike most of other zodiac signs, Rats believe in having a handful of friends, but they share a special bonding with all of them.

I think very few chinese will see this post because very few have access to international blogs.
I have been backpacking in China in mid 2006 at the time I had trouble to reach even my webmail from there. Almost two years later I am sure that people still facing censorship in many ways. But even so, that is an amazing country and here is my greetings for the new year: BAINIAN

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