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ISA Holidays: Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year Collection Highlights

Year of the Horse via Google

Destiny Collection - Lunar New Year Collection

Author Grace Lin makes a paper cut for the Year of the Fire Horse

✂️ 🐴 Author/Illustrator Grace Lin shows how to make a Chinese paper cut of the Horse to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Find the template for the Lunar New Year Horse Paper Cut Instructions By Grace Lin (www.gracelin.com): https://gracelin.com/wp-content/uploads/horseinstructions_complex.pdf

Grace LIn's One Minute Myth: Rice Cake or New Year Cake

🧧 Author/illustrator Grace Lin ("Chinese Menu") tells how the interesting legend behind Nian Gao, or New Year Cake.

One Minute-Myth: Dumplings for Getting Rich During New Year

🥟 Author/illustrator Grace Lin ("Chinese Menu") tells the legend of how dumplings were invented!

Lunar New Year and the Year of the Fire Horse Calendar

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The Lunar New Year 2026 ushers in the Year of the Fire Horse, starting February 17, 2026, and lasting until February 5, 2027, bringing a dynamic mix of the Horse's traits (freedom, energy, passion) with the Fire element's intensity, signaling a year for bold action, innovation, and rapid transformation, following the strategic Wood Snake year. This rare 60-year combination encourages decisive steps and new horizons but requires mindful management of its powerful, potentially volatile, energy.

Kids Ask Authors podcast - Special LUNAR NEW YEAR EPISODE

🎙️ Episode #110: Special Lunar New Year Episode: “The Legend of Fortune Gods” storytime with Grace Lin:

"Just in case you don’t know, the Lunar New Year is a very important Asian holiday! Many countries celebrate it—China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and more! It is when the new year begins according to the moon calendar. The calendar that we use today is based on the sun but in ancient times, most people followed a calendar based on the moon. It was called the Lunar calendar. And when the year began according to that calendar it was called the Lunar New Year!

Now the story I am going to tell you is a story I was told as a child and since then I have read many different versions of it. So I’m going to tell you my own personal adaptation. This is the “Legend of the Fortune Gods” by me, Grace Lin..."

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BrainPOP Lunar New Year
Not all New Year's celebrations take place on January 1. For billions of people around the world, Lunar New Year festivities begin anywhere between January 21 and February 20—and can last up to two weeks. It's the most important holiday of the year in China, Korea, Vietnam, and many other East Asian countries. You’ll also see festivities in cities where there are large populations with roots in those places. People travel from far and wide to return home and spend time with family. Lunar New Year traditions vary from country to country, but often involve similar themes. There are rituals to start the new year with a clean slate, such as sweeping your home and getting new clothes and haircuts. Many celebrants eat lucky foods for prosperity and put up decorations to attract good luck. And most traditions include a big family feast on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day. In some places, the festivities eventually move from private homes to public streets with firecrackers, elaborate lion dances, dragon-filled parades, and a spectacular lantern festival. Ready to ring in the new year, lunar-style? Click "play" to learn more!

Britannica School Foundation - Lunar New Year

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