This Lunar New Year I appeared on WBBM newsradio 780, on February 1, 2022. Nancy Landt interviewed me on Celebrating the Lunar New Year. As we come to the end of the Lunar New Year season on Lantern Festival February …
Celebrate Lunar New Year like an Expert
Can even celebrity craft and culture experts, like Martha Stewart, make a colossal faux pas? Every year Lunar New Year’s Day changes according to a lunar calendar. For example, the Year of the Tiger arrives on February 1, 2022. On …
Watching a Sunrise on a New Year’s Day
While many western traditions revolve around festivities on New Year’s Eve, a long standing tradition I am familiar with in East Asia is watching the sunrise on New Year’s Day. How about going for a pre-dawn hike on the …
Netflix and Chill in Chinese
Despite Netflix’s scandals this year, this later half of 2021 showed no slowing down of its value in stocks. In fact, since these last three months of 2021, its per share stock value has not dropped below $600 USD. What …
April is a Woman’s Name
In Western naming tradition, children could be named after an ancestor, a historical role model, an idol in popular culture, or even a month of the year. Chinese naming traditions follow many rules. One particular difference is that while children …