Chinese New Year is a millennia-old festival. The holiday was born out of the myth of Nian (also the Chinese word for “year”), a beast that would appear every New Year’s Eve and attack ...

Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, celebrates the end of winter and the coming of spring by marking the beginning of the new year on the lunisolar Chinese calendar. This year ...

If you were born in the Year of the Snake, (1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, and 2013), people may find you intelligent, wise, and mysterious. They are also said to be determined, caring, and ...

For instance, cutting or washing your hair on the first day of the new year is believed to bring bad fortune, as the Chinese character for "hair" is the same as the first character in the word for ...