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Asian New Year Celebration
Wednesday, February 28th
5:00-7:00 pm
Brown 105

2018 registration closed

Once again, the College is organizing a cultural celebration for this special holiday. Come join us for an evening of delicious Asian food, performance, Kong fu demonstration, and international presentations. The event is open to all Dalton State students, faculty, and staff. Please register at the link above.

While Dalton State's celebration is on February 28th, Asian New Year is on February 16th this year.

The event is sponsored by the Office for International Education and supported by the Dalton State Foundation.

The New Year is a time of celebration with family and friends featuring good food and festivities. Preparations are similar to the Christmas holidays with plans to visit family, shopping, cooking, and decorations.

Chinese New Year aka Spring Festival

Celebrations run from New Year’s Eve to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day. Celebrations often include family reunions, family portraits, dragon dances, colorful decorations, calligraphy with blessings and wishes of good fortune, holiday foods, lanterns, flowers, worship, firecrackers, and gifts of money in red envelopes

Korean New Year is a three-day celebration of New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day "Seollal" or “Gujeong”, and the day after

Korean New Year is a family holiday featuring travel to family reunions, traditional foods, memorials for ancestors, gifts to family members, and family games

Vietnamese New Year aka Tết Nguyên Đán "Feast of the First Morning of the First Day" and Hội xuân “Spring Festival”

Tết is a three-day celebration with special holiday food, family reunions, visits with friends, ancestor worship, and gifts of lucky money to children and the elderly

Other Asian countries’ festivities, lasting one to three days, are similar to the above with family, parades, parties, performances, fireworks, etc.

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Lunar New Year is the first day of a calendar based on the cycles of the moon which is of course 28 days. To those of us that use the solar calendar, the Lunar New Year appears to fall on different dates each year. In 2018, it is on February 16th.

Each Lunar Year is named based on the animals of the Asian Lunar Zodiac: ox, horse, goat, rooster, pig, dog, rat, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, and monkey. 2018 is the Year of the Dog.

The holiday is a time to visit and dine with family and welcome the new year with many fun activities. Asian New Year is celebrated in Brunei, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Korea, Mongolia, Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and other Asian countries.