Wellington Chen, executive director of the Chinatown Partnership Development Corporation and Fred Fu of the Flushing Development Center discuss the lunar new year and how Chinatowns throughout the region are doing.
Question of the Day: How are you celebrating the lunar new year? Are you an Ox? Comment below!
Comments [12]
michele obama was born under the rabbit sign.
My neighbor is Chinese and she has invited all of the families on our street to a party on Sunday where we will all wrap dumplings and learn some Chinese language. I am so looking forward to it and so are my eight-year-old boys.
My ox is being gored.
(Haven't worked in 5 months).
Savings being oxydated.
Corporations won't abide by Sarbanes-Oxley or any other regulations.
Gonna need Oxfam quick.
today is my birthday, so i'm celebrating a double-billing of happiness.
i'm wearing red, which is an auspicious color, and i ate a red apple this morning, which according to my mother, brings good luck.
happy the year of the ox, Brian!!!
How about telling us what years in the past 50
are years of the ox.
Like Barack Obama, I was born in the year of the ox. We oxen are hard-working and patient.
I haven't decided what to do to celebrate. I'd love some suggestions.
It happens to be my birthday, so I'm having dinner with family, which will likely include a traditional soup with rice balls - think Asian motzo ball soup. It's supposed to ring in good health and fortune forthe coming year.
I'm Asian as well, and while I'm not an Ox - my sign is a horse - I can be ox-like in my determination.
Great show, Brian, as always.
I am an ox...I will celebrate by being as bull headed as possible and not believing what MSM tells me (or believes with a grain of salt)
I'll be enjoying the festivities right here in Brooklyn.
http://bestviewinbrooklyn.blogspot.com/2009/01/year-of-ox-celebration-on-8th-avenue.html
We have a dumpling-wrapping party every year. Eating dumplings is supposed to bring you riches for the new year because they're shaped like old-fashioned gold ingots. Very fun, with lots of laughing at the misshapen dumplings made by novices and all the dumplings one can eat!
I am an OX! and coincidentally, a Taurus!
But as an OX! (much like President Obama) I will be celebrating by reaffirming our OX-known resolve and determination through maintaining a job and helping others get back theirs.
I'm an American living in Chongqing, China. I spent New Year's Eve at my girlfriend's mom's house up in the mountains (they're from here), cooking BBQ on the roof with a friend from Uganda, my girlfriend's 80-something year-old grandmother, her mom and some other Chinese friends. As each New Year here passes, even "second-tier" cities like this one become more international. One thing I really wish Americans could witness is the fireworks here on "the 30th" (Chinese calendar), New Year's Eve. In a dense, hilly city like this one, it's an amazing spontaneous display from every altitude and direction. Far better than any planned display!
Last thing: it's technically not a "lunar" but a "lunisolar" calendar, incorporating both solar and lunar factors.
I used to live in Harlem and love listening to your show everyday from here online!
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