{"id":15762,"date":"2021-02-12T08:27:46","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/?p=15762"},"modified":"2026-01-12T15:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:35:46","slug":"celebrating-lunar-new-year-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libblogs.luc.edu\/noteworthy\/2021\/02\/12\/celebrating-lunar-new-year-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Lunar New Year 2021!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Happy Lunar New Year! For the year of 2021, Lunar New Year starts on <strong>February 12<\/strong> and 2021 will be the <strong>Year of the Ox\/Buffalo<\/strong> (depending on the country celebrating, there are slight variations in the zodiac animals). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/happy-chinese-new-year-year-ox-cute-cow-cartoon-with-chinese-gold-money-vector-flat-design_35029-763.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of cartoon cows\/ox dressed in traditional Chinese New Year clothes\" class=\"wp-image-14896\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Lunar New Year is a festival celebrated in several Asian countries including, but not limited to China, Taiwan, South Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia. It\u2019s called Lunar New Year because it marks the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar and often times is celebrated over the course of several days. In South Korea, Vietnam, and Mongolia, celebrations are typically 3 days, while in China, celebrations are roughly 15 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festivities that we traditionally see in the United\nStates are usually representative of the Chinese celebratory fashion.\nOverlapping themes in each country\u2019s celebrations include cleaning households\nand clearing debts to start the year off right, visiting family, honoring\nancestors, decorating with symbols of good fortune, and eating delicious food\nsymbolic of good fortune and good health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/food.gif\" alt=\"Animated gif of Patrick Star joyfully eating\" class=\"wp-image-14891\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We wanted to throwback to our 2020 Lantern Making Event at both Lakeshore Campus and Water Tower Campus. Red lanterns are commonly used to decorate to celebrate Chinese New Year to scare away Nian, a monster from an ancient Chinese legend (read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.travelchinaguide.com\/essential\/holidays\/new-year\/story.htm\">here<\/a>).&nbsp; For the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration, a lantern festival is held on the 15<sup>th<\/sup> day, marking the end of the Lunar New Year and the first full moon in the Chinese calendar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/Image-from-iOS-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"14886\" class=\"wp-image-14886\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"14887\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/?attachment_id=14887\" class=\"wp-image-14887\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/Image-from-iOS-2-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"14888\" data-full-url=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/Image-from-iOS-2-1-scaled.jpg\" data-link=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/?attachment_id=14888\" class=\"wp-image-14888\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Although we are not able to host the event again this year, you can download the instructions for making the lanterns on your own. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/Lantern-Making-Instructions.docx\">Lantern-Making-Instructions<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/Lantern-Making-Instructions.docx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\"><em>You can learn more about Lunar New Year through the library&#8217;s resources. Here are a few curated options to get you started:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>General information on Lunar New Year<\/strong> (from <em>Britannica Academia<\/em>, formerly called <em>Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em>):  <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.eb.com\/levels\/collegiate\/article\/Lunar-New-Year\/438707\">https:\/\/academic.eb.com\/levels\/collegiate\/article\/Lunar-New-Year\/438707<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn about Chun Jie\/Spring Festival\/Chinese Lunar New Year <\/strong>(from <em>World Religions Online<\/em>):  <a href=\"http:\/\/flagship.luc.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/online.infobase.com\/Auth\/Index?aid=104544&amp;itemid=WE30&amp;articleId=247948\">http:\/\/flagship.luc.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/online.infobase.com\/Auth\/Index?aid=104544&amp;itemid=WE30&amp;articleId=247948<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/nintchdbpict0002961406951-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Chinese New Year lion dance under red lanterns\" class=\"wp-image-14901\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn about T\u00eat Nguy\u00ean D\u00e1n\/Vietnamese Lunar New Year<\/strong> (an excerpt from <em>Asian Americans: An Encyclopedia of Social, Cultural, Economic, and Political History<\/em>):  <a href=\"https:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/doc\/CX6142600531\/GVRL?u=loyolau&amp;sid=GVRL&amp;xid=6c611527\">https:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/doc\/CX6142600531\/GVRL?u=loyolau&amp;sid=GVRL&amp;xid=6c611527<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/TET-HOLIDAY-e1579412040608.jpg\" alt=\"Vietnamese couple shopping during Tet\" class=\"wp-image-14908\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Check out Andrea Ngyugen\u2019s story in <em>the New York Times<\/em> on family celebrations of T\u00eat and T\u00eat food recipes<\/strong>:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/29\/dining\/tet-vietnamese-recipes-lunar-new-year.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/29\/dining\/tet-vietnamese-recipes-lunar-new-year.html <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn about Seollal\/Korean Lunar New Year<\/strong> (an excerpt from <em>Encyclopedia of Modern Asian<\/em>):  <a href=\"https:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/doc\/CX3403702729\/GVRL?u=loyolau&amp;sid=GVRL&amp;xid=87842ed5\">https:\/\/link.gale.com\/apps\/doc\/CX3403702729\/GVRL?u=loyolau&amp;sid=GVRL&amp;xid=87842ed5<\/a>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/kr_familyseollal.jpg\" alt=\"Korean family celebrating Seollal\" class=\"wp-image-14899\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Learn about Tsagaan Sar\/Mongolian Lunar New Year<\/strong> (from the Selena Travel Group in Ulaanbaatar, Monogolia):  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.selenatravel.com\/mongolia-lunar-new-year\">https:\/\/www.selenatravel.com\/mongolia-lunar-new-year<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/thumb_791_default_big.jpeg\" alt=\"Cartoon of people preparing food for Tsagaan Sar\" class=\"wp-image-14898\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if you do not traditionally celebrate Lunar New Year, one thing you can do to celebrate is support local Asian-Pacific Islander-owned businesses, particularly Asian-Pacific Islander-owned restaurants. Among the many disruptions COVID-19 brought into our lives, it has also brought a lot of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia in the form of discrimination, racial slurs, and violence, which continues to this day. Pandemic life is hard enough without having to deal with bigotry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Show your support by ordering takeout or delivery from Argyle, Devon, Chinatown, or your favorite local Asian-Pacific Islander-owned restaurant! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size\">Let\u2019s come together in a socially-distanced format because Lunar New Year is all about spreading joy and celebrating with your family and community! Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.lib.luc.edu\/noteworthy2020\/files\/2021\/02\/lion-1.gif\" alt=\"Animated Chinese New Year lion mascot holding banner with the Chinese character for &quot;spring&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-14897\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Lunar New Year! For the year of 2021, Lunar New Year starts on February 12 and 2021 will be the Year of the Ox\/Buffalo (depending on the country celebrating, there are slight variations in the zodiac animals). 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