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Chinese version of the story of the Phoenix

It is wonderful, some to find the same or similar numbers in Western and oriental cultures. This mythological bird is one of them. In the Western world, it is the "Phoenix" or "Fire bird." called Oriental culture represented the Chinese call the bird "Fenghuang." Japanese used the same Chinese characters and call it "Houou." This sacred bird is in various mythologies. It is not only a European and East Asian creature. The bird is in the mythology of the Greeks, Romans, Persians, Egyptians and Indians. The common feature is that this bird has eternal life. You jump into a volcano, the life and the text to update and flies again. The Chinese version of this bird is an old story of a Chinese philosophers, such as the huge bird with eternal life called "Huang." in the Zhuangzi, According to the Zhuangzi, a giant bird in the Northern Ocean living history. The sea such as big fish eggs is formed under water. If the stormy season comes, flying...

What is the Chinese new year?

Most of us already have new year according to the Gregorian calendar, the date 1 January is celebrated. But there is a huge population in the world, which is done with your celebration not. In fact there are to an upcoming 15-day party full of reunions and some collect this data. It begins on the first day of the new moon and ends in the full moon on the fifteenth day. The Chinese new year is this traditional celebration. The Chinese new year or the lunar new year is the famous and spectacular under Chinese holiday. It is based on the Moon calendar where time displays phases of the Moon and the solar year. The lunar cycle is typically 29 and half days. But the Chinese, make up time with the solar year, a further month every few years. This is the same as the leap years, the Gregorian calendar. This is also the reason why the actual holiday ends on the last week of January or the first week in February. Not only this holiday celebrate China with the largest population in the world, by ...