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Year of the Fire Ox

No matter which sky, climate or reign we may be under, the Chinese New Year, celebrated for 2 weeks, remains the Gordian knot of the cyclical time of 12 moons and 12 years, the juncture of winter and spring, the pivotal moment of eternal re-beginning and the passage from old to new. Two weeks of partying, good food, games, drunkenness, carnivals, family get-togethers and a community-based unity before the field-tilling cycle starts again… The Middle Empire thus links together its past and its present. China is perpetually waking up to itself, its future sealed in its past. Time is but a loop, just like a dragon chasing his own tail.