Smog levels tend to jump on Chinese New Year’s Eve when people traditionally light off the largest number of fireworks.
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With the Chinese Spring Festival just around the corner, China and the world are enthusiastically preparing themselves for the most important celebration in the Chinese calendar: the Lunar New Year.
Low Henn Kai, 25, who works in a law firm, will be driving to his mother’s hometown in Penang on the second day of Chinese New Year. The festival is celebrated by everyone and, in a country of extreme wealth that is also home to 7% of the world’s poor, the way that it is celebrated varies greatly.
Jenny said that, as numerous Isle of Man Chinese community are with family, traditional celebrations for the New Year of the Monkey will take place at a later date.
“Cheers to a brand new start and a brand new year”.
With huge numbers of global guests descending upon Southern California theme park’s in recent years, Lunar New Year is a new yearly tradition that has seemed to hit most theme parks in the area, Universal Studios Hollywood included. “From families to friends, everyone gathers under one roof to celebrate the new year and to welcome it together as one unit”, said Milly Zhu, student and president of the UBC Asian Interests Association. After they found out that it is Chinese New Year today and that the video featuring wishes from China is being shown on the screens above, they expressed gratitude to the country that did not forget the members of its wide and far-ranging diaspora on such a momentous day.
Hope this new year will Bless you with beams of energy Raindrops of fortune And mountains of confidence To embrace a promising future.
Another popular yet modern celebration of the Spring Festival is holding a New Year’s concert.
NPR’s Anthony Kuhn speaks to Here & Now’s Peter O’Dowd about how China will be ringing in the Year of the Monkey.
The new year brings freshness Dreams of truth and imagination Filled with feelings of Faith, trust and inner beauty honest happy new year.
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A red air quality alert is China’s highest air pollution warning, which was issued twice in December 2015.
