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Feb 09, 2005

Gung Hei Fat Choy!

Happy New Year! No, DCist isn’t a little late on our greeting, today is the Lunar New Year. Popularly called Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, the lunar new year is a major holiday in many Asian countries, including Vietnam (Tet), Korea (Sol-nal) and Mongolia (Tsangaan Sar). Instead of a fixed date each year, the Lunar New Year falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice. 4703 (that would be now) is the…

 
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