As some of you may know, we Chinese people has a brand new "calendar-system", the Chinese New Year, rather than the world-wide used "Gregorian calendar". It is the most important festival among all the traditional Chinese holidays.

Though there are still a couple of weeks to go for the real Chinese New Year, people around are already celebrating for the "Niu" Year. Yes, the "Niu" Year, I did not misspelled it :)

Niu means Ox (aka, "牛" in Chinese). It is one of the twelve Chinese Zodiacs. In modern Chinese language, it means "very good, very strong".

We Chinese people experienced a lot, like hosted the 2008 Olympic Games for a first time, and won the first position in the golden medal standings. But we also suffered a lot in 2008, like the Big snow and Wenchuan earthquake, and many many other troubles for our current situation. Anyway, we really need a Niu Year of 2009 so much.

There're still some hours to go for saying farewell to 2008, and I'll be a little earlier than those who lived in the U.S. Well, let's enjoy it! Happy Niu Year!!