Other events to mark the Year of the Monkey include the annual civic Chinese New Year celebrations in Norwich, which are hosted by the Lord Mayor and Sheriff at the Riverbank Chinese restaurant on February 15th.
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The year 2016 is the Year of the Monkey, the ninth animal in the 12-animal Chinese zodiac.
Everton manager Roberto Martinez and his players have been learning Mandarin this week to wish Chinese fans around the world happy Chinese New Year. People born in the Year of the Monkey are considered to be witty, intelligent and magnetic. The Confucius Institute holds a Chinese New Year celebration every year in front of the George Bush Library.
According to experts, those born in the Year of the Monkey are smart, naughty, wily, vigilant, cheerful, charming, energetic, and flexible.
The Chinese New Year has always been one of my very favorite holidays; coming as it does, at the time of year we are most in need of a holiday and for most of us, a holiday we can enjoy without worrying about what to gift anyone.
Chinese New Year festivities last for 15 days for multiple reasons. (Manan Vatsyayana/AFP/Getty Images) A Malaysian ethnic Chinese woman takes souvenir photographs in front of Lunar New Year decorations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Friday, Feb. 5, 2016.
There is no better animal in the wild, when it comes to displaying the grand art of summersaults and stunts than the one that symbolizes the New Year in the Chinese calendar.
Celebrations would be marked on Sunday night with a special dinner and various Chinese snacks, fruits and candies, and for many a visit to the Buddhist temple. Wherever they live during the rest of the year, people go home to celebrate the festival with their families. Each year, the lunar calendar is associated with five elements like wood, earth, metal, water, or fire, which is why the Google Doodle’s fire monkeys are playing with firecrackers.
The NCCC are also working with Confucius Riddlesworth Hall School near Thetford to read traditional Chinese literature to people at the Children’s Library at The Forum from on March 13.
People born in this year are believed to prefer urban life to rural. It is due to take place in Chinatown where the Chinese flock together during this time of the year for having fun in a patriotic spirit. To bring good luck, you should wear red, which stands for prosperity, loyalty and success. Black is often seen as the color of mourning, so people tend to wear more colorful clothing to show joy for the year ahead, The Telegraph explains. Doodler Alyssa Winans created a “family of monkeys in the traditional fiery red which matches the lucky envelopes families give and receive” on Lunar New Year 2016.
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“I prefer to view Spring Festival as a slightly longer holiday”, Chen wrote.
