Xin nian kuaile! Happy New Year! The Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar, and the date of the New Year varies from year to year. It falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice, which corresponds to the dates in Aquarius for us.

The year 2024 in the Chinese calendar begins on February 10, 2024: it's the year of the Dragon. Opportunities arise quickly, in various and surprising forms. With the Dragon, the exceptional and prestige come together. Dazzling and charismatic, the Dragon leaves no one indifferent.

A few days before the festivities, the Chinese clean their homes to ward off bad luck. On the New Year, family meals and religious ceremonies take place in homage to ancestors. The famous "Dragon Dance" is performed by a group of costumed dancers and can reach several tens of meters!

The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac come from a legend that tells how, at the New Year, Buddha invited the animals from his kingdom. Twelve animals appeared, and to thank them, Buddha assigned each one a year during which they are celebrated.

During the celebrations, everyone wears red as it brings good luck and attracts fortune. The final meal of the festivities consists of a large fish: the more leftovers there are, the more prosperous the year will be!

The Rat

Your dynamic, expressive temperament loves celebrations, but is wary of the reckless spending involved. This New Year should live up to your expectations: flamboyant interior red paper decorations and a few tasty delicacies in the same colour, to bring good fortune and prosperity, with cookies to add to the fun. All this will be less expensive than caviar or venison, whilst being much more exotic!
Your proverb or motto: "If you are content with what you have, you are already rich." Lao-Tzu.

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The Ox

Here is an excellent opportunity for relaxation, which you will have fully deserved, being such a hard worker! Your love of customs and family reunions is perfectly in tune with this season of festivity and wishes for good fortune throughout the year. Here you have an opportunity to excel in your culinary skills, with simple but very symbolic dishes. Don't hesitate to search the net, which abounds with good, traditional recipes.
Your proverb or motto: "He who does not progress each day, takes a step backwards every day." Confucius.

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The Tiger

Your natural creative flair means you will adore the preparation of a Chinese celebration meal! Anything goes, as long as you follow certain rules: scarlet decorations to attract prosperity to your home; fortune cookies to amuse your friends and family; and don't forget to include the obligatory fish dish, in copious amounts, as the leftovers (though this could just be the fishbone) will ensure you financial security for the whole of next year.
Your proverb or motto: "You can only see your own faults through the eyes of others." Book of Chinese Proverbs - 2nd Century B.C.

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The Rabbit

Here's an opportunity for Rabbits to spoil their loved-ones as they so love to do. Add a touch of magic to the world of your friends and family with an original and unconventional celebration meal. Quick research will give you all the pointers, from an unusual meal to the cheeky little cookies, not to mention the decorations abounding with zest for life and sincere good wishes. You will provide great amusement for children, if you let them help you on this occasion.
Your proverb or motto: "A good speech can do some good, but a good example speaks more directly to the heart". Book of Chinese Wisdom - 1876.

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The Dragon

You love starting things and you're not bothered about doing it all again less than two months after western celebrations! You will therefore fully enjoy the pleasure of gathering your friends together and wishing them prosperity with a generosity that can only reinforce your prestige. Make lists, because your shopping items will be more unconventional than usual: red paper, fortune cookies, fish for the celebration meal and firecrackers to celebrate the New Year!
Your special proverb: "Experience is like a candle, which only gives light to the one who bears it." Confucius

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The Snake

Here's another great opportunity to devote yourself to your favourite activity: getting your family and loved-ones together around a celebration meal that will be both festive and traditional. As a keen and talented cook, you will be keen to make your cookies yourself and won't forget to prepare the ritual fish, whose remains will ensure your prosperity throughout the year. Delegate the cutting out and collages of red paper to your children, to complete the atmosphere!
Your proverb or motto: "Look scrupulously at yourself, but only discreetly at others." Confucius

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The Horse

With your fiery, optimistic temperament, you love celebrations, especially if they contain an element of the exotic or the unusual. With your habit of putting on a great spread, you will take care you have some left over after your celebration meal, as a guarantee you won't lack for anything next year. If you are going to aim big, look to the detail! Decorations, cookies and cut-out figures are a must, as well as spring-cleaning your home!
Your proverb or motto: "All the flowers of the future are in today's sowings." Chinese Proverbs and Sayings - 1882.

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The Goat

For you, this is a wonderful opportunity to discover far-eastern customs and traditions at their most festive and convivial. Go for it! Surprise those close to you with an exotic celebration meal, filled with colour and zest for life. With a bit of love and imagination, you will organise an evening that will remain engraved on everyone's hearts.
Your proverb or motto: "A small income every day is worth more than a large fortune." Chinese proverbs - 1909.

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The Monkey

You will leap at any opportunity for a celebration, but it would be a good idea to imbue yourself with the symbolic value of the New Year, with all its promise for the future, and the importance of decisions taken and projects begun. A good way to mark the occasion is to gather your loved-ones around an unconventional meal table and play the game, with fortune cookies filled with wisdom or wishes written on red paper...
Your proverb or motto: "A response that doesn't resolve a problem creates thousands of others." China in Proverbs - 1909.

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The Rooster

Another reference point for your sign, which is very attached to the rhythms of the seasons and balance in all things. Relax this year by organising a celebration meal that will be out of the common and could only win over your loved-ones, who won't be used to such exotic fantasies. With your customary skill, you will have knocked up a delightful meal at no cost and in no time, with fish and home-made fortune cookies, as well as decorating your home with masks and dragons that will be larger than life.
Your proverb or motto: "The man who is patient on a day of anger will escape a hundred days of remorse." Chinese Proverbs - 1909

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The Dog

There is a shadowy side in you, inclining towards pessimism and criticism, which sometimes makes you unapproachable. Now is the time to unwind by surprising everyone with an unusual celebration meal. Vivid red decorations to warm people's hearts, little cookies to bring happiness and a traditional meal with all the symbols of prosperity: that's what will define you better than any declarations of love or friendship, with which you are generally sparing.
Your proverb or motto: "A good man is just and upright, but not rigid and inflexible. He knows when to yield, but not bend over backwards." Confucius

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The Pig

For a lover of sensual pleasure like you, an extra celebration meal can only be a delight! In the space of an evening, you will be able to forget your potential worries in convivial warmth, full of plans and wishes of prosperity. Your natural love of good food will lead you towards the most appropriate dishes for the occasion and you will take great pleasure in adorning your home with bright red paper decorations.
Your special proverb: "Better to add life to your years than years to your life." Chinese Proverbs and Sayings - 1822.

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