Chinese New Year Noted by Orlando Architect C.T. Hsu + Associates

Happy Chinese New Year

From Your Friends at C.T. Hsu + Associates, Orlando, FL

新年快樂

Chinese New Year is the most important of all traditional Chinese holidays.  It is often is called the Lunar New Year because it is determined by the lunar calendar and falls anywhere between late January and mid February.  This year, it falls on February 3, 2011. 

The origins of this holiday date back to 2600 B.C. when the Emperor Huang Ti (top right photo)  introduced the first cycle of the Chinese zodiac based on ancient legend.

 When Lord Buddha summoned all animals to bid him farewell before he departed the Earth, only twelve animals came.  As a reward, he named a year after each one and proclaimed that people born in each animals' year would possess some of that animals personality.

 2011 is the Year of the Rabbit, and is often noted as the happiest sign of the Zodiac.  Rabbits are creative, compassionate, and sensitive.  

People born in Rabbit years (1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999) are friendly, outgoing and prefer the company of others. They also prefer to avoid conflict. 

Some famous people born under the sign of the Rabbit include Walt Whitman, Marie Curie, Hu Shee, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Napoleon Buonaparte, and Albert Einstein (lower left photo).

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