{"id":187,"date":"2010-02-13T23:53:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T03:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/?p=187"},"modified":"2010-02-13T23:53:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T03:53:50","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from <strong>\u8001\u631d<\/strong> (Laos) and <strong>\u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u4e50<\/strong> (Happy New Year) to everyone!\u00a0 This year is <strong>\u864e\u5e74<\/strong> (the year of the TIger), which marks the end of my own <strong>\u672c\u547d\u5e74<\/strong> (one&#8217;s own birth year), said to be the unluckiest\/hardest year for people born in that year.\u00a0 For those of you born in the Year of the Tiger, remember to <strong>\u6234\u7ea2\u8272\u7684\u4e1c\u897f<\/strong> (wear red things) all year to ward off bad luck.\u00a0 It may sound strange for the year in which someone was born to be difficult every time the zodiac cycle repeats, but I&#8217;d much rather have 1 year out of 12 be difficult than 11 out of 12.\u00a0  This year I missed a chance at <strong>\u5e74\u591c\u996d<\/strong> (New Year&#8217;s Eve dinner), but rest assured that <strong>\u5bb6\u5ead<\/strong> (families) across China were <strong>\u56e2\u5458<\/strong> (reuniting) for this special occasion.\u00a0 Here are some other phrases for you to use during the upcoming week:\u00a0 <strong>\u4e07\u4e8b\u5982\u610f<\/strong>! ( may everything go as you wish),  <strong>\u606d\u559c\u53d1\u8d22<\/strong> (may you become prosperous), and for your friends\/family still in school, there is also <strong> \u5b66\u4e1a\u8fdb\u6b65<\/strong> ( may you do better in your studies).<\/p>\n<p>\u8001\u631d lao3wo1 &#8211; Laos<br \/>\n\u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u4e50 xin1nian2kuai4le4 &#8211; Happy New Year!<br \/>\n\u864e\u5e74 hu3nian2 &#8211; Year of the Tiger<br \/>\n\u672c\u547d\u5e74 ben3ming4nian2 &#8211; one&#8217;s own zodiac birth year<br \/>\n\u6234\u7ea2\u8272\u7684\u4e1c\u897f dai4hong2se4de dong1xi1 &#8211; wear something red<br \/>\n\u5e74\u591c\u996d nian2ye4fan4 &#8211; New Year&#8217;s Eve dinner<br \/>\n\u5bb6\u5ead\u56e2\u5458 jia1ting2tuan2yuan2 &#8211; family reunion\/families reuniting<br \/>\n\u4e07\u4e8b\u5982\u610f wan4shi4ru2yi4 &#8211; May everything go as you wish<br \/>\n\u606d\u559c\u53d1\u8d22 gong1xi3facai2 &#8211; May you become prosperous<br \/>\n\u5b66\u4e1a\u8fdb\u6b65 xue2ye4jin4bu4 &#8211; May you do better in your studies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from \u8001\u631d (Laos) and \u65b0\u5e74\u5feb\u4e50 (Happy New Year) to everyone!\u00a0 This year is \u864e\u5e74 (the year of the TIger), which marks the end of my own \u672c\u547d\u5e74 (one&#8217;s own birth year), said to be the unluckiest\/hardest year for people born in that year.\u00a0 For those of you born in the Year of the Tiger&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/happy-new-year\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[3,13],"tags":[2659,378679],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-culture","category-vocabulary","tag-chinese-language","tag-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}