Women's Day - 8 March

International Women’s Day, initially called International Working Women’s Day, is celebrated every year on March 8.

Celebrate Women’s Day by wishing her, greeting her, and making her feel how important and special she is. Send her your warmest greetings and wishes and make her Women’s Day bright.

- A woman can make happiness bloom all around them! Happy Women’s Day!

-Feel special, unique, on top of the world.Its your day!! Happy Women’s Day!

-I just want you to know how special and fortunate I find myself to be blessed with a woman as loving, caring and wonderful as you. Happy Women’s Day!

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- May the glory and glamour of womanhood be abundantly bestowed upon you. Happy Women’s Day!

- Sending you wishes to say you blossom up the world around me! Happy Women’s Day!

-Thank you for making my life so special by your mere presence. Here’s wishing you a very special day and lots of love & happiness. I love you so much! Happy Women’s Day!

-The willingness to listen, the patience to understand, the strength to support, the heart to care & just to be there. That is the beauty of a lady! Happy Woman’s Day!

Free Chinese New Year ecards

Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year! Send warm wishes to your family and friends with a free Chinese New Year eCard! The Chinese New Year, or Lunar New Year, begins with the first new moon of the year and ends with the full moon fifteen days later. It is the most important holiday in China and millions of people travel home to be with their families.

I would like to take the opportunity to wish you all a Happy Chinese New Year! Don't forget to wish good fortune, peace and happiness on Chinese New Year to all your friends and family.

恭喜發財! - Gōngxǐfācái (aprox 'Congratulations and be prosperous!')

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Chinese New Year Greetings and Chinese New Year ecards

There are many saying and greeting associated with the Chinese New Year. Family members, friends and neighbors greet each other with congratulations and wishes for prosperity.

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General regards and best wishes to all

新年好(xīn nián hǎo) -Happy New Year
过年好 (guò nián hǎo) -Happy New Year
新年快乐 (xīn nián kuài lè) -Happy New Year
恭贺新禧 (gōng hè xīn xǐ) - Happy New Year
万象更新 (wàn xiàng gèng xīn) -Wish your all things take on a new start
心想事成 (xīn xiǎng shì chéng) -May all your wish come true
万事如意 (wàn shì rú yì) -hope everything goes your way


To businessman

恭喜发财 (gōng xǐ fā cái) -Congratulations for getting rich
财源滚滚 (cái yuán gǔn gǔn) -May your profits pouring in from all sides


To students

学有所成 (xué yǒu suǒ chéng) -May you harvest your studies
学习进步 (xué xí jìn bù)-May you make progress in study


To politician

步步高升 (bù bù gāo shēng) -May you promoted to a higher position
官运亨通 (guān yùn hēng tōng) -May you had a successful official career

Chinese New Year - The Year of the Snake

Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. In China, it is known as 'Spring Festival', the literal translation of the Chinese name 春節 (Pinyin: Chūnjié), since the spring season in Chinese calendar starts with lichun, the first solar term in a Chinese calendar year. It marks the end of the winter season, analogous to the Western Carnival.

The festival begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: 正月; pinyin: Zhēngyuè) in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day. Chinese New Year's Eve, a day where Chinese families gather for their annual reunion dinner, is known as Chúxī (除夕), literally "remove evening" or "Eve of the Passing Year." Because the Chinese calendar is lunisolar, the Chinese New Year is often referred to as the "Lunar New Year" and Agriculture / Agricultural / Agrarian Calendar's New Year.

Chinese New Year is the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions.

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Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic neighbors.

Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese new year vary widely. People will pour out their money to buy presents, decoration, material, food, and clothing. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly cleanse the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red colour paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity." On the Eve of Chinese New Year, supper is a feast with families. Food will include such items as pigs, ducks, chicken and sweet delicacies. The family will end the night with firecrackers. Early the next morning, children will greet their parents by wishing them a healthy and happy new year, and receive money in red paper envelopes. The Chinese New Year tradition is to reconcile, forget all grudges and sincerely wish peace and happiness for everyone.

Mythology

According to tales and legends, the beginning of Chinese New Year started with the fight against a mythical beast called the Nian (Chinese: 年; pinyin: Nián). Nian would come on the first day of New Year to eat livestock, crops, and even villagers, especially children. To protect themselves, the villagers would put food in front of their doors at the beginning of every year. It was believed that after the Nian ate the food they prepared, it wouldn’t attack any more people. One time, people saw that the Nian was scared away by a little child wearing red. The villagers then understood that the Nian was afraid of the color red. Hence, every time when the New Year was about to come, the villagers would hang red lanterns and red spring scrolls on windows and doors. People also used firecrackers to frighten away the Nian. From then on, Nian never came to the village again. The Nian was eventually captured by Hongjun Laozu, an ancient Taoist monk. The Nian became Hongjun Laozu's mount Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

Free New Year ecards and New Year wishes

New year is the the most celebrated festival in the modern world. New Year's has always been a time for new beginnings and fresh starts.

Looking back and being thankful for the wonderful memories of the previous year, and the hope for beautiful times ahead is what the New Year is all about. With your loved ones all geared up for 2013, you should not stay behind and let them know that they are in your prayers by sending them New Year Greetings for the year.

Send warm New Year greeting messages to your near and dear ones and wish them an year full of joys and reasons to celebrate.

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- As the New Year approaches us with hopes anew, here is wishing you and your family a wonderful year ahead. Happy New Year

- Wishing you a year that is filled with all the fragrance of roses, illuminated with all the lights of the world and be blessed with all the smiles on the planet. Hope this year will be the year when all your dreams come true. Happy New Year 2013.

- On this New Year, may you change your direction and not dates, change your commitments and not the Calendar, change your attitude and not the actions, and bring about a change in your faith, your force and your focus and not the fruit. May you live up to the promises you have made and may you create for you and your loved ones the most Happy New Year ever.

- On this New Year I wish that you have a wonderful January, a lovely February, a Peaceful March, a stress-free April, a fun-filled May, and Joy that lasts from June to November, and finally a happy December. May my wishes come true and may you have a charming and lucky New Year 2013.

- There are things that are sometimes left undone and there are things that can be left sometimes unsaid. There are things that can be sometimes left unsaid, but wishing someone like you can't ever be left, so I take this moment to wish you and your loved ones a joyous and wonderful New Year.

- New year comes with glows of hopes in our mind
It gives us new confidence and courage for a fresh start
Happy New Year and all the best for new ventures

-New year comes to give us a fresh hope,
For a better future and success
New Year gives us dream for that
We will face challenges with confidence
On this new year may your dreams and hopes
Succeed with the blessings of god
Happy New Year and Seasons greetings

Christmas provides an opportunity for us all to pause, reflect and celebrate the things that we rightly cherish. It is a time when we, as families turn our minds to what is really important – family, friendship, neighbourliness and homecoming. At Christmas we have an opportunity to renew our appreciation of these gifts, gifts which we hope will sustain us through the coming year.

As a season of festivity and happiness, Christmas involves a lot of communication and greetings.

Here we present you with a hand picked collection of the best Christmas and New Year Greeting for friends, family, office colleagues and other official purposes. Find the message and spread the cheer of the season.

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- May all the Joyfull sweet magic / Of Christmas conspire / To gladden your hearts / And fill every desire / Wishing you a season of blessings / from heaven above. Happy Christmas!

- May the good times and treasures of the present become the golden memories of tomorrow. Wish you lots of love, joy and happiness. MERRY CHRISTMAS.

- New is the year, new are the hopes and the aspirations, new is the resolution, new are the spirits and forever my warm wishes are for you. Have a promising and fulfilling new year!

- It’s Christmas and I just wanted to say “Thank You” & that….It’s been a pleasure working with you this past year… Hope you & your family have a wonderful Holiday &… A Happy New Year ! May the miracle of Christmas fill your heart with warmth & love. (Christmas message for colleagues, boss, team, etc)

- Christmas is the time of giving & sharing. It is the time of loving & forgiving. Merry Christmas to Everyone!

Ōmisoka - Japanese New Year's Eve

We’ve all heard of New Year’s Eve, but not everyone has heard of Omisoka, a similar holiday celebrated in Japan. Omisoka is a very important holiday for Japanese people, and is celebrated at the same time as New Year.

Just like New Year’s Eve, Omisoka is celebrated as the beginning of a new year with new possibilities, but their celebrations are a little different. Omisoka takes place on the last day of the year (December 31st).

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In order to usher in the new year feeling fresh, families have to finish up cleaning their house and making preparations for the New Year holidays. It is common to clean the whole house on this day, a ritual called Ôsouji, which literally means “big cleanup”; primary schools also perform Ôsouj before they go into their winter vacation.

On Omisoka it is traditional to eat noodles to see the old year out; at the very end of the day, usually around 11 o'clock at night, special noodles called toshikoshi-udon—literally “crossover year noodle”—are consumed.

A few minutes before midnight, crowds gather at the temple to hear the bell struck 108 times, a precaution intended to drive away all of the previous year’s sins and thus ensuring a fresh new start. This practice is based on a belief that humans have 108 earthly passions they have to overcome in order to attain enlightenment, and each ring is thought to drive away one such passion.

The breaking of dawn the next morning is much more than just the beginning of a new day. Oshogatsu (the first three days of the year) is Japan's biggest holiday, and people flock to temples and shrines to pray for a healthy and prosperous year - regardless of their religious affiliation.

Greetings:

When seeing someone for the last time before the new year, it is conventionally to say 良いお年を (yoi o-toshi wo), "Have a good New Year"; once the new year has started and one sees someone again for the first time, one instead says a greeting such as 明けましておめでとう (akemashite o-medetō) "Happiness on the opening (of a new year)".