It’s the Lunar New Year in many Asian traditions, the start of the Year of the Rabbit. In America it follows Groundhog Day. Last year the Lunar Year of the Tiger started on Valentine’s Day.
Happy New Year.
Top Image (“Lunar Year of the Rabbit, after Georges-Louis Leclerc”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Download bottom image here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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Tags: Chinese New Year, holidays, Lunar New Year, Seolnal, Year of the Rabbit
February 5, 2011 at 5:09 pm
Update:
“Singapore PM: Reproduce in Year of Rabbit,” Liz Neisloss, CNN