What? Again?!YES - today is the biggest holiday of the year here in China, New Year's Eve in the Chinese Lunar Calendar.
In the Chinese zodiac, the coming year will be The Year Of The Ox, the second in the twelve-year cycle of zodiac animals (the Rat won first place by a despicable subterfuge). In your own animal year (work backwards in multiples of 12 years to see if you are an Ox: 1997, 1985, 1973, etc.) challenge and ill fortune tend to threaten. You are therefore advised to wear lots of 'lucky red' to ward off this possible doom. Red underwear is especially recommended.
I think the Ox is about the coolest of the zodiac animals (not non-existent, like the Dragon... or in imminent danger of becoming non-existent, like the Tiger... or vermin, like the Rat... or irritating, like the Monkey... or merely dull, like the Sheep and the Dog...). Unfortunately, I am not an Ox. But then again, I don't have any red underwear, so perhaps that's just as well.
Gongxi facai, everyone!!
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