Thursday, March 28

Happy Lunar New Year. Good luck to all of us!


A lantern depicting a tiger ahead of the Lunar New Year celebrations in Hong Kong in 2022.

As we welcome the lunar new year on Tuesday, let us give a collective hug to the year of the ox because in the last year, the COVID-19 vaccines allowed our family and friends to hug each other again. I’m not even a hugger, but I blatantly and desperately went a little crazy meeting my loved ones.

Because the Lunar New Year is tied to the first new moon of the year, it starts anytime from mid-January to mid-February. Last year, the holiday fell on February 12; This year it is February 1. The Middle English word for fortune, chance, luck or luck was “hap” or “happening”. That’s where it comes from fortuitous, unlucky, chance, maybe. If you have experienced more good luck than bad, you are happy.

“Happy”, then, like “lunar” has no possibility of being constant. Unlike January 1 New Year’s Day.




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