2009 China Spring Festival

2009 Spring Festival: the Ox Year

The Chinese calendar is based on solar and lunar cycles and thus the new year falls on a different day of the Western solar calendar each year. On the Western calendar, the start of the Spring Festival falls on Monday, January 26, 2009 -- The Year of the Ox. If you were born on the date below you are under the sign of the ox.

People Born in the Year of the OX are stable, strong, dutiful, reliable, tenacious, practical, industrious, determined, honest, loyal, sincere, persevering and down to earth and tolerant. They can sometimes be lonely but they form firm bonds with home and family. The OX people cherish their private lives and are not usually very adventurous. They can be loners. They know the way to succeed is by a slow, steady, sustained effort. OX people are great traditionalists, they like the familiar. Year Ahead:

The OX year is a conservative year, one of traditions and values. This is a slow but steady year, not a year to be outrageous.

This OX year will bring stability and growth where patience and diligence pays off.

This is a year of Harvest - when we reap what we have sown. Take care of business this year, do not let things slide.

The Lunar New Year dates from 2600 BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the Chinese zodiac.

Because of cyclical lunar dating, the first day of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. On the Chinese calendar, 2009 is Lunar Year 4706-4707.

Famous people born in the Year of the Ox: They include Margaret Thatcher, Boxer Oscar De La Hoya, Bollywood actress Aishwarya Rai, and soccer star Wayne Rooney. Sport star Catherine Freeman, Hollywood star Heather Locklear, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Juliette Lewis, Meg Ryan, Meryl Streep, Vivien Leig, George Clooney, Princess Diana.

The Birthday of Ox: 02/19/1901 to 02/07/1902 02/06/1913 to 01/25/1914 01/25/1925 to 02/12/1926 02/11/1937 to 01/30/1938 01/29/1949 to 02/16/1950 02/15/1961 to 02/04/1962 02/03/1973 to 01/22/1974 02/20/1985 to 02/08/1986 02/07/1997 to 01/27/1998 01/26/2009 to 02/13/2010

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