Title Chinese Calendrical System © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University draft as of 27 Jan 2014.

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title Chinese Calendrical System © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University draft as of 27 Jan 2014

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Twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac

In the Vietnamese zodiac, the rabbit yields to the cat

Ai Weiwei with dog-head, (Chengdu, 2010)

even MicroSoft Word©…

Calendar from Great Wall Supermarket

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Spring Festival

– traditional art forms: cut paper ( ) and tangrams ( )

But, wheres the horse?

15-piece tangram

Centennial of the 1911 Revolution

Qing period nianhua

New Year poster

title

Arrival of Happiness

Safeway – Davenport St NW DC

Baidus tracking of Spring Festival Migration qianxi.baidu.com

Lantern Festival in Taiwan / Pingxia

Dragon Boat races

Dragon Boat race, Okinawa (USMC)

Ghost Festival ( )

Kitchen God ( / )

He knows when you are sleeping, he knows when…

Elf on the Shelf

Sending off the Kitchen God

title

Dispelling-cold Pictures ( )

Jiayi, Taiwan

water-ghost city god

Jinmen, 2012

(the end)

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