Wishing you prosperity, happiness and health for the Year of the Monkey!

 

The kids will help make dumplings and nian gao; we’ll be having noodles and little meatballs for dinner for good luck.  What will you do to celebrate?  Go on, do something special for the occasion even if you’re not Asian! 

 

 

 

Learn more about the Lunar New Year:

 

Year of the Monkey from Taipei.org – Why the Year of the Monkey?  Check here!

 

Myths and Taboos – includes the stuff I should already have done…

 

Asian-American Village at IMDiversity.com – many different resources, including information on Sol (Korean), Têt (Viet) and Losar (Tibetan) Lunar New Year.

 

ChinaSprout.com’s New Year page – link-rich environment

 

Nice overview  – with a few fun tidbits (not updated for the Year of the Monkey)

 

Chinese New Year at Web-Holidays – nice explanation, plenty of other links (NOTE: site having problems due to high traffic)

 

Oshogatsu – let’s not forget Lunar New Year observations in Japan

 

Just for Kids:

 

Fun stuff at KidsDomain.com – a hodge-podge of goodies

 

Coloring projects and paper lantern – we’ll be making the lanterns here to hang over the table and near the front door

 

Calligraphy, costumes, kites and more – a bonanza of links for arts and crafts projects (not updated for the Year of the Monkey, but still very good collection)n

 

Send a Lunar New Year card:

 

123ChineseNewYear – has a few e-cards and holiday wallpaper

 

1001PostCards – very nice selection of e-cards!

 

Yahoo! – animated cards here

 

Just for fun:

 

Check your Chinese Horoscope for this year!

 

Shelly Wu’s Chinese Astrology

 

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