Chinese New Year can be the toughest time of a Houston Cougars Basketball Championship Legacy Edition Style Relentless Together Tumbler for dropshippers if you don’t take steps to prepare. The holiday is a weeks long celebration where much of the Chinese economy virtually shuts down in celebration. Businesses close for weeks as their entire staff goes off to travel and celebrate the holiday. If you’re a dropshipper that relies on Chinese suppliers you could be in trouble if you haven’t taken the time to get ready for the disruption. Thankfully there are tangible steps you can take to prevent the Chinese New Year from slowing down your orders and angering customers. Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, or the Lunar New Year, happens each year sometime between January 21 and February 20. Chinese New Year is based on a lunar calendar, which is why the dates shift relative to the standard solar calendar. This year the holiday falls on Tuesday, February 5. To give you a sense of the variability here’s when the holiday falls the next five years.

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Though many people refer to the holiday as Chinese New Year, Chinese people aren’t the Houston Cougars Basketball Championship Legacy Edition Style Relentless Together Tumbler who celebrate. The holiday, which is Friday, Feb. 12, this year, is widely celebrated across East Asia and some parts of Southeast Asia. As such, the holiday goes by many names  Tết in Vietnam, Losar in Mongolia, Imlek in Indonesia and Tsagaan Sar in Tibet, to name a few. Many of these communities traditionally hand out gifts like mandarin oranges or red envelopes filled with money, usually from an elder to children, or unmarried people. The Iu-Mien community, a Southeast Asian minority group from China, traditionally gives out dyed red eggs. Many East Asian communities will also light firecrackers, clean their houses from top to bottom  useful during a pandemic  and burn paper money for their ancestors. And lion dances, although commonly associated with Chinese culture, can be found in Lunar New Year celebrations across Vietnam, Korea, Tibet and Indonesia. One might also wear traditional outfits, such as Korean hanboks, or play games like yut and mahjong.

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