Chinese New Year  will begin on 14 February 2010 which marks the start of the Year of the Tiger, Chinese New Year or Spring Festival is the most important of the traditional Chinese Holidays It is sometimes called the “Lunar New Year” the festivities begin the first day of the month with celebrations fireworks and gift -giving and end on the 15th day of the month, this day is called Lantern Festival. Chinese New Year’s Eve is known as chú xī. It literally means “Year-pass Eve”.  The fact that the date of Chinese New Year varies within a lunar month is a clue that it’s linked to the new moon.  A rough, and almost infallible guide, is that the Chinese New Year date falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice.  The winter solstice always falls on December 21st, the next new moon is January 15th, and the second new moon February 14th 2010.  The precise rules for determining ‘When is the Chinese New Year date’, are far more complex.  For example, one problem with any lunar calendar system is that some years there are 13 new moons.  The Chinese deal with this be slotting in an extra intercalary month.  However, the Chinese have been calculating the New Year for a long time, and 2010 and will be lunar year 4708 in the Chinese calendar system.Right across the globe, wherever there is a substantial Chinese community, there will be Chinese New Year Celebrations followed by a major holiday, with countries neighbouring China quite often joining in the season too, from Bhutan and Korea to Japan and Hong Kong. One of the places to celebrate The Chinese New Year will be Birminghams China Town, after the great success of 2009′s celebrations, Birmingham’s 2010 Chinese New Year looks set to come back bigger than ever before.  Adrian Boult Hall Birmingham is holding a Chinese New Year Concert on the 13th february. An extraordinary group of Chinese virtuosos will be touring Chinese New Year Concert in the UK from 13 – 19th February, performing a selection of Chinese masterpieces that have endured for centuries. In the lucky Tiger year 2010, the Chinese New Year day falls on western Valentine’s Day, February 14th. These exceptional musicians, Dong Qui-Ming, Zhu Xiao-meng, Wang Wei-ping, Chen Da-can and Zhou Jin-yan, guarantee an enthralling evening of both solo and ensemble performance, and bestow an atmosphere of elegance, beauty and wonder,The concert takes place:
Birmingham Conservatoire Saturday 13th Feb. You can also join in the Join in the Chinese New Year Festivities on Sunday 14th February 2010 from 12 noon until 4.30pm.  The free event will be showcasing Chinese Acrobats, Singing, the Chinese Dragon Dance and Martial Arts in the Arcadian, Birmingham. Not forgetting Brindleyplace the award winning business and leisure destination in the heart of Birmingham city centre. 

Why not celebrate The Chinese New Year in style  by hiring a hummer limo for up to 16 passengers to take you to the Wing Wah in Coventry where the genuine authentic tastes of Far East Asia. The Wing Wah Chinese Restaurant’s are owned and run by master chefs from some of the most prestigious restaurants in London

Below is a chart that shows the beginning day of Chinese New Year and the animal sign for that year. 

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