Free Chinese New Year Greeting Cards 2009

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. Send this day Chinese happy new year email greeting cards to your loved ones and wish them happy and prosperous year 2009. 26th January 2009 will bring in the Year of the Ox!

Chinese New Year Cards


Chinese New Year Cards

The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. In order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every few years (seven years out of a 19-yearcycle). This is the same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is why, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.


New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.

The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.

The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. The communal feast called "surrounding the stove" or weilu. It symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.

Now Chinese New Year is just some day ahead! Reach out to your loved ones with our warm and bright Happy Chinese New Year Greeting Cards. Wish them good luck and good fortune in the New Year with these beautiful cards. Just pick your beautiful Chinese greeting cards from our Happy New Year card gallery.

Tamil Pongal Greetings Cards 2009

India is a land of festivals. A majority of the population here depends on agriculture. As a result, most of the festivals are also related to the agricultural activities of the people. These festivals are celebrated with different names and rituals in almost all the states of India. Pongal is one of such highly revered festivals celebrated in South India to mark the harvesting of crops by farmers. Held in the middle of January, it is the time when the people get ready to thank God, earth and their cattle for the wonderful harvest and celebrate the occasion with joyous festivities and rituals.

Tamil Pongal Greetings

Choose your favourite tamil pongal greeting cards and send it to your friends family and loved ones to wish tamil pongal. Many free tamil pongal email greeting cards available in the pongal cards gallery. Just select yours!!

Free Pongal Greeting Cards

Pongal is one such big festival, celebrated every year in mid January - mostly in the south of India and especially in Tamil Nadu - to mark the harvest of crops and a special thanksgiving to God, the sun, the earth and the cattle.

Pongal is directly associated with the annual cycle of seasons. It not only marks the reaping of the harvest, but also the withdrawal of the southeast monsoons in southern India. As the cycle of season rings out the old and ushers in the new, so is the advent of Pongal connected with cleaning up the old, burning down rubbish, and welcoming in new crops.

pongal greeting cards


pongal greeting cards

Don’t forget to wish your friends, family and loved ones, Select beautiful wording written free pongal greeting cards and send them.

In this collection lots of pongal wishes greeting cards available for you just select yours. All pongal greeting cards are totally free!!