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ISA Holidays: Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year Collection Highlights

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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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