It's Chinese New Year

It's Chinese New Year

Let Fireworks break out;

add General Tso's Chicken to your takeout,

or, if you'd rather not have a Moveable Feast 

a la Hemingway,

then consider, at least,

eating well today

and forgetting future fears---

for it's Chinese New Year's ....

and if you need further intellectual illuminant,

it's going to be the Year of The Ruminant.

Though it is usually  a minor sin

if you'd rather  YIn 

instead of  Yang,

even an Orangutang 

today will  cheerfully  eat a banana

and not  worry much about manana. 

HZL

2/19/15

2. yin and yang definition. Two forces in the universe, according to a Chinese theory: yin is the passive, negative force, and yang the active, positive force.

3. Yin and yang | Define Yin and yang at Dictionary.com

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Orangutan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orangutan



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The orangutans (also spelled orang-utan, orangutang, or orang-utang) are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes. Native to Indonesia and  ...

‎Bornean orangutan - ‎Sumatran orangutan - ‎Ponginae - ‎Pongo hooijeri

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From: hzlehrer@hotmail.com
To: hzlehrer@hotmail.com
Subject: Chinese New Year:
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 03:46:03 -0500

Chinese New Year: The year of the ram, or sheep, or goat, or something like that

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By Justin Moyer February 19 at 1:58 AM  

Fireworks explode over a street in Beijing early on Feb. 19, 2015 — Chinese New Year.  (GREG BAKER/AFP/Getty Images)

Happy Year of the Ruminant.

Ouch. There’s not much ring to that.

On Feb. 19, more than 1 billion people across Asia will celebrate the new year. In China, the annual migration of 700 million people for this holiday is so huge that it’s been called “the largest annual movement of humans in the world.”

But while there’s broad agreement on what animal other years honor – we just finished with the year of the horse, for example – it’s not clear exactly what creature this new year is the year of. The candidates are ram, sheep or goat, but there’s no consensus on a winner.

The confusion relates to the Chinese character yang:

 昜

The exact meaning of the phrase is hard to pin down. Unhelpful English translation: “horned animal.”