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The Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is one of the most celebrated holidays globally. It is deeply rooted in ancient traditions, with its origins dating back to the 14th century when it was a spring carnival to honor gods and ancestors.

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All about Chinese New Year and how immigrants brought it over to America.

Chinese exclusion act

The Chinese Exclusion act of 1882 ws the first significant law restricting immigration into the united states.
Many Americans on the west coast attributed declining wages and economic ills to Chinese workers.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is more commonly known as the spring festival.
Chinese New Year has become one of the worlds top five most celebrated festivals.

The Chines calendar is also divided into lunar cycles of 60 years, and each cycle is further divided into five smaller cycles of 12 years each. Each year is represented by and animal in the Chinese Zodiac: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.

In the 14th century as a spring carnival in which people offered sacrifices to gods and ancestors at the end of the winter, welcoming the arrival of spring.

Chinese New Year 2020

The holiday was traditionally a time to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors.
time to bring family together for feasting.

Chinese New Year is based on the ancient Chinese Lunar calendar.

Oracle bones inscribed with astronomical records indicate that the calendar existed as early as 14th century B.C., when the Shang Dynasty was in power.

Chinese New Year typically begins with the new moon that occurs between the end of January and the end of february

Asain Americans then and now

beginning in the 1850s again immigrants played a vital role in the development of this country.
Asian Americans have confronted a long legacy of exclusion,

in 1882, congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, the only United States law to prevent immigrant and naturalization on the basis of race.

Chinese Exclusion act restricted Chinese immigration for the next sixty years.