LANTERN FEST

The Lantern Festival (traditional Chinese: 元宵節; simplified Chinese: 元宵节; pinyin: Yuánxiāo jié), also called Shangyuan Festival and Cap Go Meh, is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month in the lunisolar Chinese calendar, during the full moon. Usually falling in February or early March on the Gregorian calendar, it marks the final day of the traditional Chinese New Year celebrations. As early as the Western Han dynasty (206 BC–AD 25), it had become a festival with great significance.

We celebrated it in our garden as it was a warm Summer night and it was fun to light up the lanterns and sip cool drinks.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!

Best wishes for the New Year. May health, happiness and creativity light up every day of your year. Be well, be joyful, be kind. Enjoy the good moments, give back tenfold the love you receive once. Share your joys, they will be multiplied and will lighten up many lives around you. Share your sadness, it will be divided and will dissipate.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025!

THIS WAS THE YEAR THAT WAS

A mosaic of photos, one from each month of the past year. Once again, a busy year, full of good and not so good things, surprises and routine happenings, some things old and cherished, others new and exciting. Goodbye to 2024, hello to 2025.

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****May the New Year 2025 be a better year for everyone!****
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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2024!

Chinese New Year is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, observances traditionally take place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year, to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.

Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture. It has influenced similar celebrations in other cultures, commonly referred to collectively as Lunar New Year, such as the Losar of Tibet, the Tết of Vietnam, the Korean New Year, and the Ryukyu New Year. It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries that house significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, especially in Southeast Asia. It is also prominent beyond Asia, especially in Australia, Canada, Mauritius, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as in many European countries.

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

With best wishes for health, peace and happiness in 2024!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Best wishes for a New Year filled with health and happiness! Let's all hope that this year brings healing and restitution of normality.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020!

Fireworks over the Yarra River in Melbourne City.

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