Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the Full Moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the New Year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.

According to the Chinese Zodiac, the Year of 2013 is the Year of the Snake, which begins on February 10, 2013 and ends on January 30, 2014.  The Snake is the sixth sign of the Chinese Zodiac, which consists of 12 Animal Signs.  It is the enigmatic, intuitive, introspective, refined and collected of the Animals Signs.  Ancient Chinese wisdom says a Snake in the house is a good omen because it means that your family will not starve.  People born in the Year of the Snake are keen and cunning, quite intelligent and wise.  They are great mediators and good at doing business.  Therefore, you should have good luck if you were born in the Year of the Snake. 

Your Chinese Zodiac is Snake if you were born in the following years: 1917, 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013.

Every year, the fourteenth day of the month of February has millions across the world presenting their loved ones with candies, flowers, chocolates and other lovely gifts. In many countries, restaurants are filled with couples who are eager to celebrate their relationship and the joy of their togetherness through delicious cuisines. There hardly seems to be a young man or woman who is not keen to make the most of the day.