Celebrate the Chinese New Year on Long Island
Photo credit: Sam Levitan | Chinese New Year Celebration by the Confucius Institute at the Wang Center at Stony Brook University. (Feb. 12, 2013)
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The Chinese New Year: Year of the Snake
Embrace the snake.
Chinese New Year slithers in on Sunday, with 2013 marking the Year of the Snake. This most important Chinese holiday and always begins at the start of the second new moon after the winter solstice.
The snake is one of a dozen animals rotated over a 12-year cycle to represent the lunar new year. If you were born under the sign of the snake, it portends intelligence...
