Happy New Year to you also.  We celebrate it and we are in America.   We are 
pretty much a Chinese family.  I have some Chinese genes and my wife is all 
Chinese so we celebrate the New Year.  Our kids are still at home so it's a 
family thing.  Kind of neat because we celebrate New Year in January and 
Chinese New Year in February.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Xiaofan Chen" <xiaofanc@gmail.com>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 11:51 PM
Subject: [OT] Happy Chinese New Year!


> Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate it (people in China,
> Malaysia and Singapore as well as oversea Chinese in other country
> and others).
>
> According to Wikipedia, it is celebrated by non-ethnic-Chinese as well.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year
> "Celebrated in areas with large populations of ethnic Chinese, Chinese New
> Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had a
> strong influence
> on the new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours, as well as
> cultures with
> whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These include
> Koreans, Mongolians,
> Nepalese, Bhutanese, Vietnamese, and formerly the Japanese before 1873.
> In Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, and
> other countries with
> significant Chinese populations, Chinese New Year is also celebrated,
> largely by
> overseas Chinese, but it is not part of the traditional culture of
> these countries."
>
> In Singapore and Malaysia, it is a public holiday. I take three days of 
> leave
> so I do not need to work this week. Nice.
>
> Xiaofan
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