{"id":33259,"date":"2016-02-07T14:43:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T13:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjaminkanarekblog.com\/?p=33259"},"modified":"2016-02-07T14:43:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T13:43:28","slug":"happy-chinese-new-year-2016-year-of-the-monkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/happy-chinese-new-year-2016-year-of-the-monkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Chinese New Year 2016 Year of the Monkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benjaminkanarekblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Year-of-the-Monkey-2016-712.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33260\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33260\" src=\"http:\/\/benjaminkanarekblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Year-of-the-Monkey-2016-712.jpg\" alt=\"Year-of-the-Monkey-2016-712\" width=\"712\" height=\"475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We would like to wish a\u00a0Happy Chinese New Year 2016 Year of the Monkey to all of our Chinese friends around the world. May it be filled with Happiness, Joy, Health and Prosperity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Like Korean Seollal\u200b, Vietnamese Tet, Mongolian Tsagaan Sarand Tibetan Losar\u200b,\u00a0Chinese New Year\u00a0farewells\u00a0winter and the year gone by and rings\u00a0in spring and the fresh year with family and friends. Making wishes for luck, prosperity and good fortune and warding off evil spirits are central to many celebrations, which vary across China and Lunar New Year cultures.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IYlwzRxQ8Dg\" width=\"700\" height=\"415\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each Chinese New Year is characterised by one of 12 animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac. The Chinese zodiac is divided into 12 blocks (or houses) just like its western counterpart, but with the major difference being that each house has a time-length of one year instead of one month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year it&#8217;s the Year of the Monkey, the ninth animal in the cycle. The next Year of the Monkey will be in 2028.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Have a Wonderful New Year<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/benjaminkanarekblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/happy-new-year-2016-a.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-33265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33265\" src=\"http:\/\/benjaminkanarekblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/happy-new-year-2016-a.jpg\" alt=\"happy-new-year-2016\" width=\"1024\" height=\"361\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to wish a Happy Chinese New Year 2016 Year of the Monkey to all of our Chinese friends around the world. May it be filled with Happiness, Joy, Health and Prosperity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33265,"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":[477,209,478,479],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paG8MM-8Er","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30611,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/happy-chinese-new-year-horse-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":33259,"position":0},"title":"Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse 2014","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"January 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Wishing all of our Chinese friends Very Happy Chinese New Year of the Horse 2014","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eclectic&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eclectic","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/eclectic\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"chinese-year-horse","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/chinese-year-horse.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/chinese-year-horse.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/chinese-year-horse.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28669,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/eclectic\/happy-chinese-new-year-snake-2013\/","url_meta":{"origin":33259,"position":1},"title":"Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013","author":"Benjamin Kanarek","date":"February 10, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"We at Benjamin Kanarek Blog wish all of our Chinese friends, a very happy and prosperous New Year of the Snake 2013","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eclectic&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eclectic","link":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/category\/eclectic\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Happy Chinese New Year of the Snake 2013","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thebkmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/2013-year-of-the-snake-design-2-1-448x450.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":13682,"url":"https:\/\/thebkmag.com\/rebuild\/bkblog\/happy-chinese-new-year-2011-year-rabbit\/","url_meta":{"origin":33259,"position":2},"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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