Happy Chinese New Year 2009 - Kong Hsi Fa Chai

Happy Chinese New Year 2009. For the next two weeks there will be lots of celebrating around the world for the year of the ox. I found the above photograph on many websites so I don't know who to give credit for the beautiful picture. This is Hong Kong harbour for a Chinese New Year celebration. I can't even tell you what year.



I've found a few websites you might want to check out if you are interested in learning more about the celebrations.




http://www.c-c-c.org/chineseculture/festival/newyear/newyear.html This is a great over all site to give information.



http://www.infoplease.com/spot/chinesenewyear1.html This is another fun site which has links to stories about the fortune cookie and chopsticks.


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.kiddyhouse.com/CNY/cnyclips/cnyboy.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.gigglepotz.com/chinese_newyear.htm&usg=__0bvr4wb3D8S5KVj_tfrxoojJKZc=&h=648&w=468&sz=10&hl=en&start=100&sig2=TALTiHYc3Dx9F4GPM_MapQ&tbnid=6AVh8ZeLDxAQbM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=99&ei=FBJ9SbP2PJWstQOirLwm&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dchinese%2Bnew%2Byear%26start%3D90%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN yeah - this one has a long link line but worth a look at as you can make your own Chinese New Year cards on this one.


http://www.jackiechankids.com/ And a site I visit from time to time - Jackie Chan Kids. He has a coloring contest every year for Chinese New Year.

This photo is from Jacksonville Oregon's newspaper of an old celebration (maybe 2008.) The little town of Jacksonville decorates and celebrates Chinese New Year every year to honor the Chinese men who helped build this old mining town. I use to work on the committee for years until I moved to Ashland. This year I plan to watch the parade in Jacksonville and celebrate with friends on February 7th. I plan to do lots of celebrating with foods etc... in the next two weeks so I will keep you updated on the festivities. You can check out their scheduled events here http://www.jacksonvilleoregon.org/calendar.html

Until Next Time. . . . .


Kathleen