Visitors to Twycross Zoo can expect some mighty monkeying around as the attraction and conservation centre runs a special programme to mark the Chinese New Year.
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In this photo, monkey soft toys – some bearing the words “Golden Monkey delivers wealth” – are displayed at a store for a temple fair ahead of Chinese Lunar New Year at Ditan Park in Beijing on February 6, 2016. “With celebrations set to take to take place all over Asia this weekend it will be interesting to see what the year of the Monkey will bring for investors in China”. The amount of travel to reunited with family during Chinese New Year is so big it has been given the name “Chunyun”. Hundreds of thousands of people visited traditional fairs in the parks of Beijing, and Buddhist and Taoist temples that held singing and dance performances and craft markets. They also acted out the Chinese new year animal story and learned why the years are named after animals, as well as making monkey door hangers. This fun, festive holiday falls on a different day in January or February of each year.
People flocked to temples to pray for good health and fortune on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday in China.
In Chinese culture, the 15-day Spring Festival culminates with the Lantern Festival, which helps guide spirits home.
In the Western world, the traditional shopping season usually lasts a month from Thanksgiving to Christmas holidays.
Unlike the New Year celebration per the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New Year is not a time for drunken revelry and sequined hats. The Chinese believe that the animal ruling your birth year has a profound influence on personality, relationships and destiny. The sum is typically an even number, and it shouldn’t contain the number four, which is considered unlucky because it sounds like the Chinese word for death. Many people wear new clothes and send Chinese New Year greetings to each other.
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The world’s largest consumer of coal, China produces more than a quarter of the world’s carbon pollution. Moreover, a report from Mirror said that people born in 2004, 1992, 1980, 1968, 1956, 1944, 1932 and 1920 will suffer 52 weeks of bad luck this year.
