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Kung Hee Fatt Choy!
Happy Chinese New Year! When I was in high school my family tagged along on a business trip with my Dad to Hong Kong. It also happened to be Chinese New Year which was especially fun. We learned all about the traditions and enjoyed the many decorations, and the public dragon dances.
It is considered good luck to have a dragon dance at your home or business. I remember seeing a dragon dance in a mall and thinking it was so fun. The dragons have an elaborate head which has expressive eyes that can show emotions. The body is a long train of fabric and several guys stand underneath it to work the body.
Red represents good luck and many people give each other little red envelopes with money inside. I think it’s similar to our valentines day in that way. Every year is represented by an animal and 2008 is the year of the rat. Many people don’t really know the year they’re born because nobody asks how old you are. They just say, “I was born in the year of the dragon (that’s mine).” The celebration is 15 days long and I remember sitting in our hotel room watching fireworks on the final day of Chinese New Year. There were barges out on the water where the fireworks were shot from and it was a beautiful show. Great memories!
GO VOTE!
I saw a fun little piece on how the delegates work for these primary elections on Good Morning America, but I can’t find it on their site, so this one will have to do. The whole thing gets pretty complicated, so it’s nice to have a general idea of how it all works:
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=602OSqjSSDY
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