"Unlike dragons, phoenixes, pomegranates, or fish, snakes are generally not associated with auspicious meanings," Luo said.

A symbol of reunion, China’s Spring Festival is a time when families gather together to usher in a new year on the first day of the lunar month, and when people from all corners of the country head to ...

Why is there a year named after the Snake? Mathias, a junior majoring in Chinese translation at the Vrije Universiteit ...

to optimize three-dimensional paper-cutting models based on the Chinese zodiac animals. The products are expected to hit the market before the Spring Festival, or the Chinese Lunar New Year that ...

The snake comes sixth in the 12-animal rotation used by the Chinese to represent the year, following the loong and preceding the horse. Others in the zodiac include rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, sheep/goat, ...