Does the Chinese zodiac contain important wisdom? If you were born in a Tiger year, then you can celebrate today with Queen Elizabeth II and Lady Gaga.
Two billion celebrate Year of the Tiger
Does the Chinese zodiac contain important wisdom? If you were born in a Tiger year, then you can celebrate today with Queen Elizabeth II and Lady Gaga.
What's happening?
In ShanghaiChina's leading financial centre. Ironically, its citizens have been reduced to bartering for food., bright red lanterns light up the city centre. In Korea, families are preparing feasts of rice cake soup and dumplings.
All of them are getting ready for one of the biggest parties of the year.
LunarTo do with the Moon. New Year is a festival for the arrival of spring. It is celebrated in China, Vietnam, Korea and other Asian countries. It begins with the first New Moon of the year and lasts 15 days.
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Each year is named after one of 12 animals in the zodiacThe term derives from a Greek word for a sculpture of an animal.. The third year is the tiger. It stands for power.
For people who believe in the zodiac, the year and the time you are born affects your personality. People born in a tiger year are said to be clever, confident and strong.
Does the Chinese zodiac contain important wisdom?
No. The zodiac cannot tell the future. And the day you are born does not affect what sort of person you will be. We should trust science.
Maybe! There is a lot we don't know about the universe. And belief is stronger than many people think. Science is not the only way to understand how the world works.
Keywords
Shanghai - China's leading financial centre. Ironically, its citizens have been reduced to bartering for food.
Lunar - To do with the Moon.
Zodiac - The term derives from a Greek word for a sculpture of an animal.
Two billion celebrate Year of the Tiger
Glossary
Shanghai - China’s leading financial centre. Ironically, its citizens have been reduced to bartering for food.
Lunar - To do with the Moon.
Zodiac - The term derives from a Greek word for a sculpture of an animal.