{"id":28669,"date":"2013-02-10T13:35:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-10T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/?p=28669"},"modified":"2013-02-10T13:35:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T12:35:48","slug":"happy-chinese-new-year-snake-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/happy-chinese-new-year-snake-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_28670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28670\" style=\"width: 448px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-year-of-the-snake-design-2-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28670\" alt=\"Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-year-of-the-snake-design-2-1-448x450.jpeg\" width=\"448\" height=\"450\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We at Benjamin Kanarek Blog wish all of our Chinese friends, a very happy and prosperous New Year of the Snake 2013. The first day of the Chinese New Year \u2013 February 10, 2013 \u2013 is the most important of Chinese holidays, celebrated by over 1.3 billion people in China and by millions of ethnic Chinese around the world. It\u2019s a celebration that lasts for 15 days, culminating with the Lantern Festival. Each year is associated with one of 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac. For 2013, it\u2019s the Year of the Snake.<em>Gong Xi Fa Ca!<\/em>\u00a0 That\u2019s the traditional Chinese New Year greeting that means \u201cwishing you prosperity\u201d in Mandarin.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28671\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28671\" style=\"width: 477px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-new-year-in-bangkok-2013.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28671\" alt=\"Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Chinese-new-year-in-bangkok-2013.jpeg\" width=\"477\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There are several variations on the mythology behind Chinese New Year celebrations. Most are based on a ugly bloodthirsty monster named Nian that would emerge on the last night of each year to destroy villages and eat people. A wise elder advised villagers to scare the monster away with loud noises. That night, they set fire to bamboo, lit fireworks, and banged their drums. The monster, afraid of the loud noises and lights, ran away to hide in its cave. In another version of the myth, an old man persuaded Nian to turn its wrath on other monsters, not the villagers.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28672\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28672\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Ditan-Park-in-Beijing-008.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-28672\" alt=\"Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Ditan-Park-in-Beijing-008-650x436.jpeg\" width=\"650\" height=\"436\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28672\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Before he was seen riding away on Nian, the old man, actually a god, advised the people to hang red paper decorations in their homes and set off firecrackers on the last night of the year to keep Nian away. On the first day of the new year, the villagers celebrated, greeting each other with the words \u201cGuo Nian\u201d which means \u201csurvive the Nian\u201d, a tradition that has continued to this day to mean \u201ccelebrate the new year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We at Benjamin Kanarek Blog wish all of our Chinese friends, a very happy and prosperous New Year of the Snake 2013<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[47],"tags":[209,210],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-7sp","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13682,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/bkblog\/happy-chinese-new-year-2011-year-rabbit\/","url_meta":{"origin":28669,"position":0},"title":"Happy Chinese New Year 2011 Year of the Rabbit-\u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u6a022011\u5e74\u7684\u5154\u5b50","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"February 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"\u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u6a022011\u5e74\u7684\u5154\u5b50 To my Chinese friends around the world, I want to wish them, a Very Happy, Joyous and Prosperous New Year, the Year of the Rabbit 2011! 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