Happy Chinese New Year 2012. Monday, January 23rd. DRAGON!

[Shangas]

A happy Chinese New Year to everyone! So ends the Year of the Rabbit and we start anew with the Year of the Dragon!

Were you born in the year of the Dragon? If after your birthday this year, your age is divisible by 12, then you were. What attributes are Dragons supposed to have?

According to ChineseZodiac.com:

A powerful sign, those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Dragon are energetic and warm-hearted, charismatic, lucky at love and egotistic. They’re natural born leaders, good at giving orders and doing what’s necessary to remain on top. Compatible with Monkey and Rat.

A Golden-Era Chinese New Year of the Dragon:

27th, January, 1928. Chinatown, Los Angeles, U.S.A. The local Chinese community putting on a dragon-dance:

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

新年快乐！
Xīnnián kuàilè!

Hopefully a sign of good things to come. I was born in the Year of the Dragon.

 

[Shangas]

Gung Hei Fatt Choy*

Yes indeed. Hope you have a particularly prosperous year, Brunswick.

*Wealth and Prosperity.

 

[Miss Sis]

I'm a Dragon too! Hope this is a good year for not just me but everyone. Happy New Year!

 

[rue]

Happy New Year!

I was born in the year of the rooster, but hopefully it's a good year for us too

 

[ThemThereEyes]

Happy Chinese New Year! Being as my bday is tomorrow, I have to admit nearly all of my 36 years (gulp) I thought I was a Dragon. But the year I was born, Chinese New Year fell on a day shortly after I was born. Thus, I am a (wood) Rabbit.

 

[Mrs Chaddsley_Corbett]

Another Roosterette here too

 

[Shangas]

Hi Themthereeyes, I'm a rabbit too!

 

[green papaya]

that old photo is a Lion Dance , those are lion dancers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZgI-_McHc

watch this early 1925 silent film showing lion dancers in California

 

[ThemThereEyes]

Hi Themthereeyes, I'm a rabbit too!

hi! Cool. *hands you a carrot* Not such a bad one to be, right? None of them are bad of course. What element are you?

 

[Shangas]

that old photo is a Lion Dance , those are lion dancers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WZgI-_McHc

watch this early 1925 silent film showing lion dancers in California

My mistake. They all look the same to me.

 

[DNO]

Happy New Year.

A Dragon here...as is my son. As my wife put it today: "I'm a bunny (rabbit) living with two dragons."

 

[Chasseur]

Another Dragon here, looking forward to a year much better than the last...

 

[Jaguar66]

I used to work a Chinese Hospital, and no one ever knew how the day of the first day of the Chinese New Year was calculated. They would tell me, "Oh, you just look on the calendar". Uh, no. They knew it was based on the lunar calendar, but I finally had to look up how to find out how it was calculated. Its actually simple.

 

[Edward]

I used to work a Chinese Hospital, and no one ever knew how the day of the first day of the Chinese New Year was calculated. They would tell me, "Oh, you just look on the calendar". Uh, no. They knew it was based on the lunar calendar, but I finally had to look up how to find out how it was calculated. Its actually simple.

Sounds just like Easter.

Happy New Year from a Green Wood Tiger.

 

[Shangas]

Sounds just like Easter.

Happy New Year from a Green Wood Tiger.

Hiding in there somewhere is a golfing joke.