BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:0d9d5da0-0bab-44b9-8f87-19ddd68105aa.193717@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20190107T162905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T162905Z LOCATION:To Be Determined SUMMARY:Lunar New Year DESCRIPTION:Religion/Culture: China and other Asian Countries\n\n\nThis is the beginning of a three-day celebration of the Chinese New Year\, altho ugh traditionally the New Year celebration extends for fifteen days until the Lantern Festival. The festivities mark the beginning of year 4709 (T he Year of the Rabbit) since the mythical founding of the Chinese people. On New Year's Eve\, the Kitchen God returns from heaven to the shrine pr epared by each family\, where he is welcomed back with firecrackers and o fferings. New Year's Day is a day when all business accounts are settled and grudges forgotten. Traditional Chinese celebrate New Year's Day as a birthday and count themselves one year older. The Chinese celebrate by ea ting noodles to signify a long life and pork dumplings called jiao zi\, w hich means "midnight" or "the end and the beginning of time." A Chinese c oin is hidden in one of the dumplings\, and the person who finds it will have good luck over the coming year. Children receive decorated red envel opes with good luck money inside. Celebrations include fireworks\, a drag on dance and the beating of drums and cymbals\, visits to temples\, and p rayers for blessings in the new year.\n\n\nRecognizing the Festival/Holid ay: An appropriate greeting is "Happy New Year." In Chinese\, the greetin g is Gung Hay Fat Choy (Cantonese pronunciation)\, Gungshi Shin Nien (Man darin pronunciation).\n\n\nThis calendar listing is intended to provide i nformation about the named cultural/religious observation and is not inte nded as an actual campus event. If a campus event is associated with this observance\, it will be listed separately on the master calendar. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Re ligion/Culture: China and other Asian Countries</p>\n<p>This is the begin ning of a three-day celebration of the Chinese New Year\, although tradit ionally the New Year celebration extends for fifteen days until the Lante rn Festival. The festivities mark the beginning of year 4709 (The Year of the Rabbit) since the mythical founding of the Chinese people. On New Ye ar's Eve\, the Kitchen God returns from heaven to the shrine prepared by each family\, where he is welcomed back with firecrackers and offerings. New Year's Day is a day when all business accounts are settled and grudge s forgotten. Traditional Chinese celebrate New Year's Day as a birthday a nd count themselves one year older. The Chinese celebrate by eating noodl es to signify a long life and pork dumplings called jiao zi\, which means "midnight" or "the end and the beginning of time." A Chinese coin is hid den in one of the dumplings\, and the person who finds it will have good luck over the coming year. Children receive decorated red envelopes with good luck money inside. Celebrations include fireworks\, a dragon dance a nd the beating of drums and cymbals\, visits to temples\, and prayers for blessings in the new year.</p>\n<p>Recognizing the Festival/Holiday: An appropriate greeting is "Happy New Year." In Chinese\, the greeting is Gu ng Hay Fat Choy (Cantonese pronunciation)\, Gungshi Shin Nien (Mandarin p ronunciation).</p>\n<p>This calendar listing is intended to provide infor mation about the named cultural/religious observation and is not intended as an actual campus event. If a campus event is associated with this obs ervance\, it will be listed separately on the master calendar.<span></spa n></p></body></html> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190205 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190206 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://calendar.missouristate.edu/viewevent.aspx?eventid=102340&occur renceid=193717 CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR