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Happy Chinese New Year! Wishing You that the New Year be a Messenger of Happiness, Joy, Peace and Prosperity, Fun, Love and Luck. May this New Year bring you Wealth, Longevity and Good Fortune! While rats may not have the most outstanding reputation as animals in the West, the characteristics associated with the Chinese Zodiac sign are very positive. So should this be your Chinese zodiac sign, take heart. You are in good company.  Mozart, William Shakespeare, T.S. Eliot, Rosa Park, Milton Friedman and Mark Zuckerberg were all born in the Year of the Rat. In Chinese culture, rats are used to symbolize wealth and surplus. Traditionally married couples would pray to these rodents hoping some of their reproductive success would rub off on them. Rats are found all over the world and regarded in the Chinese zodiac as being smart and nimble with plenty of vitality and enterprising spirit. Personality People born in Rat years are said to share some of these characteristi...

Don your red dresses! Southern California is hosting the biggest public events for the Lunar New Year in the U.S. We celebrate the Year of the Goat or Sheep, depending on how you interpret "yang". We consider ourselves lucky to have such easy access to so many exciting, public, global events right in our backyard! What an inspiration! New Year Lion/©Caruso Affiliated You can't miss it. Increasingly every year, Los Angeles is really getting into the mood! Our malls - here the beautiful Grove - feature lanterns, dragons and wishing trees.  The Grove Central Street with Lantern/©Marion Renk-Rosenthal The God of Wealth/©Caruso Affiliated - hank you to Caruso Affiliated for sharing the photos! Get in the mood! Here some pointers: Those born in 1919, 1931, 1943, 1967, 1979, 1991 or 2003 are goats, who can count their lucky colors as brown, red and purple. Their characters are supposedly kind and peaceable, Creative, thoughtful, frank and honest whi...