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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 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
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.
