Chinese New Year Dates: Chinese Traditions

February 05, 2019 is the first day of the Chinese New Year. Since each year is named after 12 different animals, the Chinese New Year Dates system makes it easily for people, in particular, the old people to remember their age. Like for e.g. 2014 was Year of Horse, 2015 was Year of Goat, 2016 is Year of Monkey. And 2019 is Year of Pig.

A Pig is noble and strong. Pig make great friends, although not always easy friends. Pigs expect their own generosity to be reciprocated equally by friends or Pig may quickly end the relationship.

According to a myth, Lord Buddha invited all the animals on the Chinese New Year. But only 12 came, so he named the 12 years after each of the animals. He Proclaimed that Those those born in each animal’s year would have traits of that particular animal. Since this year is a Pig year, people born in this year can be make great friends, although not always easy friends. Pigs expect their own generosity to be reciprocated equally by friends or Pig may quickly end the relationship.

Chinese New Year Dates: Chinese Culture & Traditions

Animal	Branch	Dates
Rat	Zi	February 19, 1996	February 7, 2008
Ox	Chou	February 7, 1997	January 26, 2009
Tiger	Yin	January 28, 1998	February 14, 2010
Rabbit	Mao	February 16 1999	February 3, 2011
Dragon	Chen	February 5, 2000	January 23, 2012
Snake	Si	January 24, 2001	February 10, 2013
Horse	Wu	February 12, 2002	January 31, 2014
Goat	Wei	February 1, 2003	February 19, 2015
Monkey	Shen	January 22, 2004	February 8, 2016
Rooster	You	February 9, 2005	January 28, 2017
Dog	Xu	January 29, 2006	February 16, 2018
Pig	Hai	February 18th, 2007	February 5, 2019