{"id":7125,"date":"2015-02-19T12:19:48","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T12:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/?p=7125"},"modified":"2024-01-30T09:42:06","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T14:42:06","slug":"celebrating-the-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/celebrating-the-lunar-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese_New_Year.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7126\" alt=\"Chinese_New_Year\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Chinese_New_Year-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Did you know that the largest human migration in history is taking place right now in Asia? Every year, millions of people make their way home to celebrate the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lunar_New_Year\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lunar New Year <\/a>(also widely known as the Chinese New Year), effectively shutting down all business operations to welcome the year of the sheep. Some of the countries that celebrate this holiday include China, Korea, Mongolia, Tibet and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the Lunar New Year so important? It goes way, way back. If you don\u2019t know the history, you can learn a little bit about it <a href=\"http:\/\/go.edu.chegg.com\/e\/54752\/pics-holidays-chinese-new-year\/r41x\/31116159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. Oh, and did you want to see what the largest human migration in history looks like? Go <a href=\"http:\/\/go.edu.chegg.com\/e\/54752\/2015-02-18\/r41z\/31116159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> for a fascinating look!<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\nFollow us on:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SPCStudyAbroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fb logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/fb-logo.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/SPCStudyAbroad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"twitter logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/twitter-logo.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/stpetecollege\/study-abroad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"pintest logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/pintest-logo.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLA201A05FC9F5F728\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"youtube logo\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/study-abroad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/youtube-logo.png\" width=\"30\" height=\"30\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the largest human migration in history is taking place right now in Asia? Every year, millions of people make their way home to celebrate the Lunar New Year (also widely known as the Chinese New Year), effectively shutting down all business operations to welcome the year of the sheep. Some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/celebrating-the-lunar-new-year\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Celebrating the Lunar New Year<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-7125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22311,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7125\/revisions\/22311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}