給中外人士的賀年致詞（中英文）

老幾

Hi,

For those who don't know and are interested in knowing - 

According to the Chinese calendar, Sunday February 10^th will be the beginning of a Chinese new year, the Year of Snakes! The traditional Spring Festivals start from that day and last for five days.

The Chinese calendar is based on the moon movement with full moon being the middle of each month. A normal Chinese year consists of 354 days in 12 months. The differences with western Gegorian year are accumulated in a precise way so every few years there will be a moving duplicated month - say you may have two Aprils, August, etc. (to be exact 7 duplicated months out of 19 years)

The Chinese New Year is typically in the late of January or early February.

The big advantage of the calendar is its application in agriculture as it provides accurate information to farmers on when they should plant and when they should harvest etc.

Something of a little interesting:  there are groups of superstitious people who use the calendar for fortune prediction purpose.  Believe or not ，some of the conclusions were quite amazing – don’t count on that ! Don’t say I have not warned youJ.

For those who celebrate like me, Chun Jie Huao!

Cheers！

Laoji

大家好！

對於那些不知道，有興趣了解的人們：

按照中國的農曆，2013年2月10號星期天，將是新年蛇年的第一天！傳統的春節從星期天開始要持續五天。

中國的農歷是根據月亮的運動制定的，以每月中旬為滿月。正常中國年有12個月354天。它與西方所用的回歸年的差異，是通過精確計算，採用每間隔幾年增加閏月的辦法解決的，也就是說您可能碰到有兩個四月或兩個八月的情況等等（準確的說是十九年七閏）。

中國的春節通常是在一月底或二月初。

中國農曆的一大優勢是其在農業中的應用。因為它會準確的告訴農民，什麼時候他們應該種植，什麼時候他們應該收獲等等。

有一個有趣的現象：在迷信的人群中，有使用農歷算命的。相信不相信由你，有些結果是相當驚人的 - 不要指望它！不要說我沒有警告過你。J

對於跟我一樣的慶祝者，大家春節好！

乾杯！

老幾