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ON 10 February 2024, it will become the Year 4722 on the Lunar Calendar, or as it is more readily referred to in the UK:- 'Chinese New Year.' The Chinese calendar or Chinese lunisolar calendar is based on the concept of Yin Yang and astronomical phenomena, as movements of the 7 luminaries:- Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. As a result, Chinese New Year falls on different Gregorian calendar dates each year.

Traditionally, the Chinese New Year is celebrated for 15 days, with the Lantern Festival marking the end of the celebrations. Linked to the Chinese Lunar Calendar is the Chinese Zodiac, which has a cycle of 12 years, and is represented by 12 animals:- Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and the Pig. That means the this coming Chinese Year will be the Year of the Dragon, which will end on our Gregorian calendar date:- 29 January 2025, and then will begin the Year of the Snake. These animal signs are further broken into another 4 cycles, with 1 element of 4 elements being associated with them. Those elements are:- 1 - Fire, 2 - Earth, 3 - Air, 4 - Water, and this time Year 4722 will be the year of the Wood Dragon. The 12 Chinese zodiac animals in a cycle were not only used to represent years in China, but also they were believed to influence people's:- personalities, careers, compatibility, marriage, and fortune! So what do you think 2024, sorry, 4722 will have in store for you?

If you are unaware, Liverpool's Chinatown is home to the oldest Chinese community in Europe. Based in the South of the City Centre, Chinatown has many Chinese businesses, restaurants supermarkets, and facilities for the Chinese community, even the street names are bilingual!

Every year the Chinese community in Liverpool celebrates the start of the new lunar year in style. 2024 will be no exception to this, and the area has huge events planned. To help celebrate, Liverpool City Council is holding a huge celebration with the Chinese Community. If you have never been, the mostly free to watch activities on offer include:- traditional dragon, lion, and unicorn parades and firecracker displays. Plus, a 25 metre, illuminated dragon floating through the dock system, fire dancers, Kung Fu displays, captivating animation, and soundscape. And all that plus more! This is an event not to be missed, and events run from:- 9 February to 11 February 2024.

Please go to:- VisitLiverpool.Com for more information about the New Year festivities.

Please note that the biggest day, with the majority of the biggest events, will take place on, is:- Sunday, 11 February 2024.

Southport the Empire Restaurant will be holding its celebrations on:- 9 February 2024, so if you have young kids, this event, at around:- 7 pm outside the Nevill Street venue, which is an ideal place to get them ready for the sights and sounds of the big event in Liverpool. For more information about the smaller scale event, please call the Empire Restaurant at:- 01704547718.

This might be a lucky year for the Empire Restaurant in Southport as we have spotted that for them, with 8 being the lucky number for the Chinese, and with the Chinese Zodiac Lucky Numbers for 2024 being:- 1, 6, 7, we found it interesting that, the phone number of the Empire Restaurant has 3 of the 4 lucky numbers, including the magical number 8 at the end! What is even more interesting is when you add the number of lucky numbers up, it is 6, the only missing lucky number for 2024, sorry 4722!

Did you know? We tend to only associate the Lunar Calendar with China, but it is not just the Chinese who celebrate New Year on this day. Many other countries also celebrate the Lunar New Year, for example, Korea celebrates as well as Vietnam (Tết Nguyên Đán). Interestingly, the Japanese tradition also held the start of the new year using the lunisolar calendars up to 1873, when the official Japanese New Year started to be celebrated according to the Gregorian calendar.