I just posted a “Morning Coffee with Doug” video in which I talk about Chinese New Year and how someone from Canada might be confused about or not know about certain aspects and traditions of Chinese New Year.
In particular, I chatted about the name Spring Festival and commented on how from a Canadian perspective it feels like the Spring Festival comes six weeks too early. For a typical Canadian, early February is still far, far away from anything remotely feeling like Spring.
This happens, of course, because the Chinese calendar and the awesome 24 Solar Terms divide the days up and groups them into categories differently than we might in Canada. The technical spring season starts much earlier in the Chinese calendar. It is technically the beginning of Spring even if it doesn’t feel like it. But once we do some reading and learn about the Solar Terms, we get it.
