Happy Chinese New Year, Best known as the Lunar New Year. OH YEAH! Another reason to celebrate, I’m so happy that America adopted the Lunar New Year as a reason to boogie down. You can ask anybody I am a party animal, and in the Asian culture Lunar New Year is a big reason to celebrate.

The Lunar New Year is usually overlooked by us westerners but still our brother to east invite us to celebrate their new year party with them. When east meets west it turn into a big party real quick, and I mean real quick. Just like the west the east knows how to party, just in a different ways.

In Asian culture Lunar New Year is a big deal. The first accounts of the Lunar New Year celebration can be traced back to about 400 b.c. The celebration was established to combat illness and bring forth prosperity. Lunar New Year is also called the “Spring Festival” as it marks the end of winter and the start of spring.

There are plenty of parties to celebrate the Lunar New Year, people all over China and the rest of the world are known to party hard for up to 40 days. Giving hung bao “red envelopes” to whoever. What’s in those hung bao? Good ol’ hard-earned cash money, although nowadays they might contain gift cards.

The Chinese even have there own zodiac base on the year. This year (2025) is the year of the snake. Yeah, so trickery might go down this year, what something for a bad year, blame the snake. Legend has it that an emperor set a race between 12 animals and that is how the zodiac was made.

Moon Cakes are a traditional snack to bring in the Lunar New Year. Those round cakes with different kinds of filling are a happy way to celebrate the start of spring. Know to grant well wishes and good luck for the new year. Moon Cakes are a must-have on your to-do list for the Lunar New Year. Every Asian friend I have said you are not celebrating Lunar New Year right without a moon cake.

Well, I hope I inspired you to get your feet wet in Asian culture and go forth and celebrate Lunar New Year this year. Go forth and find your local Asian community and simply ask to party for the Lunar New Year, trust me they will take care of the rest. Have some plum wine, some moon cakes, and some ming ( noodles). Just remember, what happens in Chinatown stays in China town… (-_^)