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Hand-painted Chinese New Year’s poetry pasted on the sides of doors leading to people’s homes

Lunar New Year’s Day is the first day of the year, according to the traditional lunar calendar. The Lunar New Year is China’s most important traditional holiday. However, this holiday is not just one day; rather it encompasses an extended period of time, often lasting until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. In northern China, the first meal of the New Year is boiled jiaozi (stuffed dumplings). In the south, it is niangao (New Year’s cake).

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Chuxi (New Year’s Eve) is the last evening of the twelfth lunar month. In Chinese, Chu literally means remove or change, and Xi means night. Thus Chuxi implies that the old year ends at this night, and the new one begins tomorrow. The reunion dinner, sacrificing to the ancestors, watching Spring Festival Party on CCTV, and staying up till 12 o’clock, are the major activity in Chuxi.

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Twelfth in the cycle, the Year of Pig follows Rooster and recurs every twelfth year. The Chinese New Year does not fall on a specific date, so it is essential to check the calendar to find the exact date on which each Pig Year actually begins.

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An image from a NASA animation reveals the possible arrangement of the large network of lakes scientists have found deep beneath an Antarctic ice flow.

The waterways help carry ice from Antarctica’s center to the sea, in a finding that may clarify how global warming will affect the world’s ocean levels

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Unleash your inner animal in these beautiful, back-to-nature retreats

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The next time your boss catches you napping on the job, tell him regular naps are good for your heart A six-year study of nearly 24,000 Greek adults found those who regularly took midday naps lowered their risk of dying from heart disease by more than a third.

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In a mouth-watering claim sure to make many chew the fat, a Japanese doctor tells that eating chocolate can help you lose weight.

“Chocolate lovers can still enjoy the tastes they like and lose weight while doing so,” Hiroshige Itakura, an Ibaraki Christian University professor specializing in “lifestyle diseases,” like hypertension and hardening of the arteries.

But, just as anything healthy to eat almost certainly tastes terrible, there’s also a catch to Itakura’s assertion. He says that chocolate’s weight loss benefits can only be obtained under strict conditions.

The chocolate being eaten has to have cacao content of at least 70 percent, no more than 50 grams a day can be consumed and it should be broken up and eaten during or before each of the three meals. Following these guidelines for a month could lead to a loss of 2 to 3 kilograms.

“The greater the cacao content, the more effective its weight loss effects are. …

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