The Chinese dragon is one of the world’s most globally recognized monsters. Playing a major role throughout Chinese history, they were both creators and destroyers and controlled the elements ...

Let the countdown to Chinese New Year begin! According to the lunar calendar, Chinese New Year — also called the Spring Festival — falls on Feb. 10 and celebrates the year of the Wood Dragon.

For 20 years, it gathered dust. "A lot of people in Portland, even Chinese, haven't seen the dragon dance," said Fred Wong, a soon-to-be 82-year-old who grew up in Chinatown.

Your zodiac animal is determined by your year of birth, meaning those born in 2024 will fall under the Dragon sign. Those born in 2025 will be Snakes, and so on. But that’s only the start. For ...

The Chinese dragon years over the last century were 1916, 1928, 1940, 1952, 1964, 1976, 1988, 2000, 2012 and 2024. The next Year of the Dragon won’t come again until 2036.

As we enter the Year of the Dragon, we can expect the dragon’s traits—nobility, confidence, and strength—to reign supreme, giving us the energy we need to really get after it in 2024.

When Lunar New Year begins Saturday, initiating a new Year of the Dragon, some experts anticipate —or even hope for—another dragon-year rise in Chinese birth rates, however slight. “Dragon years are ...

But some Chinese state media have been calling it the year of the loong in their English reports. Loong (pronounced like the English word “long”) sounds like the Mandarin term for dragon.