Millions of Chinese people around the world are celebrating the start of the Lunar New Year today! Chinese astrologers and bankers alike worry that the year of the ox will be gloomy, especially in the financial hub Hong Kong. Even so, test your New Year's luck with this quiz all about the most important festival of the Chinese calendar!
1 of 5Question 1
Untold
I already called my grandma and all of my friends in Japan to wish them a Happy Lunar New Year.
And our President and George Clooney were born in the year of the OX
1wow I suck
23/5 For me. I was born in the year of the dog.
34/5 pretty pretty pretty good!
4ROFL Hain - I only got 1 right - you obviously don't suck as bad as I do! Cheer up!
54/5...missed the first one. I'm year of the Sssssssnake.
6Kim I only got 1 as well
7Japanese and Koreans celebrate lunar new year too, no? It's not only for Chinese people.
8LOL Hain!! Well then we equally suck - nice to have someone in the boat with me
9President Barrox Obamox
10Whooo! I was telling everyone about this today! I was born in the year of the Ox, and I call shenanigans on the people claiming it'll be a gloomy one!
11As someone who's chinese... no one evers told me the red represented fire. I've long been led to believe it's a lucky colour...
12me too georgie, ive been celebrating chinese new year ever since i can remember and i don't really know much about what everything symbolizes.
13i love chinese new year! all the goodies, red packets from relatives, food, lo hei, and catching up with relatives, new clothes and shoes!
14I got the last one wrong!
15The holiday is called the LUNAR NEW YEAR. More cultures than the Chinese observe the lunar calendar such as Vietnamese & Koreans.
16Yes, I also read that red symbolizes luck not fire...
173/5 Funny how I got #3 wrong when I clicked "true" & at the end it came up as "false"...
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Oh well, I was born in the "Year of the Dragon"!
eh? im chinese and red is more widely recognised as a colour of luck, not fire..
19Question 5 has nothing to do with CNY tradition
20Chinese invented the lunar calendar, that's why it's chinese new year.
21I took Chinese in High school and I only got 2 out of 5. Red symbolizes lcuk.
Ms.Chen would say "AAYYYAA!!! Sleeping beauty. You should have been woke with your big eyes and paying attention" She was cool.
22question 3 is FALSE!! red doesn't symbolize fire, it symbolizes luck and prosperity.
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