Chinese New Year for 2024 begins on Saturday, February 10th, and continues for 15 days, with the ‘Lantern Festival’ marking the end of the celebrations.
Chinese New Year 2024 is the year of the ‘Green Wood Dragon’.
The Chinese zodiac sign of the Dragon is considered one of the luckiest and most powerful animals in the Chinese zodiac. In Chinese culture, the Dragon represents power, success, honor, and luck. Many Chinese parents want to have children born in a Dragon year.
The Dragon is related to success, intelligence, and honor in Chinese culture. Wood Dragons are said to be full of energy and dream of changing the world.
The Year of the ‘Green Wood Dragon’ is believed to be able to foster growth, progress, and abundance, and this year is anticipated as being a good year to build a solid foundation for something new with long-term potential.
The last ‘Year of the Wood Dragon’ was 60 years ago, in 1964.
Let’s look back at some of the things that happened back in 1964.
- That year, the Beatles took America by storm — which deeply influenced Western music development for the next half-century.
- The US Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President Johnson.
- The Soviet Union launched Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit. It was the first space flight to carry more than one person and the first without using spacesuits – which set an important mark for all of us humans to further explore the universe.
- China, meanwhile, successfully carried out its first nuclear test in 1964.