Year of the Monkey

Monkeys are associated with curiosity, mischievousness and intelligence, but often tend to have a hard time exhibiting their clever and intellectual aspects.

The first day of Spring Festival — called danian chuyi (大年初一) in Chinese — this year falls on February 8.

At midnight, the year of the goat will come to a close and the year of the monkey will begin, no doubt with a bang. At precisely midnight, huge metropolises and tiny country villages alike will explode with the sounds and lights of millions of fireworks.

No matter how far from one another they live, families will get together to blow things up, shower children with gifts and red envelopes stuffed with cash and most certainly eat and drink.

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Published: 16 February 2016

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