Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year

by | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, Holidays 2025 | 0 comments

Chinese New Year falls on January 29 this year. This festival marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year and is celebrated with colorful, engaging traditions designed to usher in prosperity, health, and happiness. 2025 is the Year of the Snake, which symbolizes wisdom, elegance, and mystery in Chinese culture. 

From dazzling dragon and lion dances to the snap and crackle of firecrackers, every element of Chinese New Year celebrations is steeped in history and cultural significance. Chinese New Year festivities often include family reunions, feasting on symbolic foods like dumplings and fish, and giving younger family members red envelopes (Hong Bao) filled with money. These customs are about celebrating, bringing NormaJeanHillCraft@gmail.comd fortune, and warding off bad luck for the coming year.

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Groundhog’s Day

Groundhog’s Day

by | Jan 16, 2025 | Featured, Fun Facts! | 0 comments

EARLY SPRING . . .

“To Be or Not To Be”

February 2 is Groundhog’s Day in the United States and Canada! The tradition involves the adorable pudgy Groundhog emerging from its and HOPEFULLY NOT SEEING its shadow, since according to folklore, those in cold climates will be doomed to six weeks of winter. Who wants that?!

Here are a handful of fun Groundhog’s Day facts from a Good Housekeeping article!

  • Groundhog’s Day dates back to the Germanic holiday Candlemas, which denotes the end of winter. 
  • Groundhogs CAN predict the end of winter! Ok, that could be a stretch. The logic is that spring is around the corner if a Groundhog is inclined to come out of its hibernation burrow without immediately retreating back.
  • The 1993 movie Groundhog’s Day made the holiday widely popular. Tens of thousands of people across the United States participated in Groundhog’s Day festivities! 

Come what may, an early spring or more wintry days and nights, the cute and pudgy Groundhog graces us with its presence and gives a spring of hope, although fleeting. 

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