Chinese New Year: Card & Frame

Happy Chinese New Year!

Chinese New Year is coming, send your greetings now.

Chinese New Year: Cards & Frames allow you to choose from many cards which you can type your messages, or just send the readily e-cards. Or you can also select and use the Chinese New Year frames application to capture your photo and send your greetings.



Chinese New Year (CNY) Greetings feature:
1. CNY cards that you can type your messages / greetings.
2.Readily e-cards that you can send instantly.
3. Chinese New Year photo frames application to capture your photo and send your greetings.
4. You can also set the e-cards as your mobile devices wallpapers or backgrounds.
5. Instructions details are explained in the application.

Chinese New Year is an important traditional Chinese holiday celebrated at the turn of the Chinese calendar. In China, it is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Chinese New Year celebrations traditionally run from Chinese New Year's Eve, the last day of the last month of the Chinese calendar, to the Lantern Festival (otherwise known as Chap Goh Mei) on the 15th day of the first month, making the festival the longest in the Chinese calendar. Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year".

The source of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. Regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck or feng shui. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity." Other activities include lighting firecrackers / fireworks and giving money in red paper envelopes or angpow.

The lunisolar Chinese calendar determines the date of Chinese New Year. In the Gregorian calendar, Chinese New Year falls on different dates each year, a date between January 21 and February 20. In the Chinese calendar, winter solstice must occur in the 11th month, which means that Chinese New Year usually falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice. In traditional Chinese Culture, lichun is a solar term marking the start of spring, which occurs about February 4 or 5, which is the median date of Chinese New Year's Day.

The dates for Chinese New Year from 1912 to 2101 (in the Gregorian calendar) are below, along with the year's presiding animal zodiac and its Stem-branch. In generally, Chinese New Year follows the Metonic cycle, and returns to the same date in Gregorian calendar roughly. Alongside the 12-year cycle of the animal zodiac there is a 10-year cycle of heavenly stems. Each of the ten heavenly stems is associated with one of the five elements of Chinese astrology, namely: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water. The elements are rotated every two years while a yin and yang association alternates every year. The elements are thus distinguished: Yang Wood, Yin Wood, Yang Fire, Yin Fire, etc. These produce a combined cycle that repeats every 60 years. For example, the year of the Yang Fire Rat occurred in 1936 and in 1996, 60 years apart.

Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai!

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