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We always see the label Chinese New Year on our wall calendars but did you ever stop to wonder why the Chinese have a different time to celebrate the new year and how they go about bringing in the new year? If you have then you have come to the right place! The Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. In America we have a linear perception of time, our years are dated from the birth of Christ, so if it is 2006 this means that it is 2,006 years after the birth of Christ. However the Chinese culture uses a cyclical method of dating. Meaning something is repeated time after time according to a certain pattern.
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