A new year begins according to the lunar calendar
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Lunar calendar New Year , the Spring Festival , the first day of the Year of the Goat.
It's Wednesday , February 19 at 7:48 am (Beijing time ) begins the year of the Goat wood ( or Sheep Wood) . In the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar begins " Spring Festival " , the most important celebrations in Asia.
The festivities extend over a week until the " Lantern Festival " which closes this period.The food is not only to satiate the appetites but is also loaded with symbolic meaning. Sens inherited a similar pronunciation of 2 words (product, symbol) in Chinese. And clementines are symbols of luck and good omen , oranges wealth and luck, prosperity grapes , grapefruit abundance .