What Is Lunar New Year ? What does it mean if you're born in the year of the Pig?

 Lunar New Year is Also called "Spring Festival" and "Chinese New Year" since it comes in the springtime and is dated dependent on the Chinese lunar Calendar. The date vacillates, from a Western viewpoint, however comes in either January or February.
Every Lunar New Year is assigned as "the time of" one of the 12 creatures of the Chinese Zodiac, which creature should describe that year and each one of those conceived in it.

Lunar New Year is the most imperative every year repeating celebration for individuals of Chinese lineage everywhere throughout the world. It has been commended for more than 1,000 years – perhaps any longer, and the customs included are profoundly instilled in Chinese culture. For some, it is likewise a religious occasion, loaded with petitions, contributions, and different demonstrations of dedication.

In Malaysia, as somewhere else, individuals get ready for Lunar New Year well ahead of time. Houses are gotten out altogether before it touches base to "clear out any misfortune," however floor brushes are covered up away on New Year's Day inspired by a paranoid fear of "clearing ceaselessly the good fortunes" that the landing of another year brings.

New garments, to be worn on New Year's Day, and a substantial reserve of nourishment for New Year's Eve supper, are likewise bought ahead of time, making the strip malls exceptionally bustling this season. Welcome cards are likewise generally traded.

Lunar New Year is really celebrated for 15 back to back days, however the initial three days are generally vital. The fifteenth and last day, Chap Goh Mei is likewise a major occasion, where houses are improved with a bounty of splendidly shaded lights. It is a method for consummation with an amazing finale as opposed to the celebrations simply blurring endlessly progressively.

On the eve before the main day of the new year, family-just suppers and reunions are held. On the consequent days, in any case, many will welcome companions and inside and out outsiders to come feast with them. This "open house" approach is additionally worked on amid other Malaysian occasions and everywhere open Lunar New Year get-togethers put on at Malaysian people group lobbies. It ought not be difficult to get welcomed to a gathering.

Other Lunar New Year conventions include: "Yee Sang," a vegetable mixture dish eaten by tossing its pieces high noticeable all around with chopsticks to bring good fortunes; hanging up "duilian," scrolls bearing acclaimed lines frame Chinese verse; going to lion and mythical serpent moves; wagering on card diversions, insofar as the wagers are unobtrusive; giving out endowments of cash in little red ang-pao bundles; and going to firecrackers shows, the greatest of which are in Chinese regions of Kuala Lumpur and in urban areas with substantial Chinese populaces.

What is the year of the Pig?

lunar New Year in 2019 is on Tuesday, the fifth of February (5/2/2019). 
As per the Chinese 12-year creature zodiac cycle, the Chinese year starting in 2019 is the time of the Pig. Every Chinese zodiac year starts on Chinese New Year's Day. 

Pig years are accepted to be the most unfortunate for individuals conceived in earlier long periods of the Pig. 
Lunar New Year, Also called as "Spring Festival" in present day Mainland China, will be China's most critical conventional celebration, celebrated at the turn of the customary lunisolar Chinese timetable, which comprises of both Gregorian and lunar-sunlight based date-book frameworks. Chinese New Year can start whenever between late January and mid-February.

Lunar New Year Food

The Chinese Reunion supper is a standout amongst the most essential components amid Chinese New Year. The get-together supper which is hung on the eve of New Year is where families assemble over an indulgent feast with heaps of clamor and chuckling. 

Sustenance assumes an essential job for the Chinese and also generally Malaysians. Thus, amid the get-together supper, one will have the capacity to see a wide range of dishes on the table including the renowned Yee Sang, stir-fry leeks, stick cakes and others.