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This Geocoin was initially set free by PopPop (Dave) Lewis in Scottsdale, Arizona, Arizona, who wants to see it travel the world spreading new years cheer!!
This Geocoin is about 1.75 inches in diameter and about 3 mm thick. It has transparent colors and is antique gold in color.
The face side has an 8 segment basket weave with the Stub Tailed Macaque center (China's most famous monkey) with "Fire Monkey" in traditional script text left and right. There are lucky numbers to the left and right of the head and alternating red, white and blue traditional lucky colors throughout.
The reverse side has a monkey on the appropriate Yang position holding flame as the light-in-the-dark of Yin segment in one hand and the GPS lightning bolt encircled by his tail in the other hand. The words "Happy Chinese New Year" are over head, and the tracking number is below. Red fire indicators highlight lucky poles of N, W and NW for traditional good luck in the Year of the Monkey.
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10/1/22 - RE-RELEASED AS PROXY #2 AFTER PROXY #1 WENT INACTIVE WITH A GEOCACHER THAT HAD RETRIEVED IT OVER 16 MONTHS AGO AND NEVER RESPONDED TO INQUIRIES REGARDING ITS STATUS!! PROXY #1 HAD TRAVELED ABOUT 1,510 MILES BEFORE IT WENT INACTIVE IN MARBLE FALLS, TEXAS!!
8/2/19 - RE-RELEASED AS A PROXY AFTER THE ORIGINAL GEOCOIN DISAPPEARED FROM A CACHE WHWRE IT WAS PLACED ALMOST 2 YEARS AGO. THE ORIGINAL GEOCOIN HAD TRAVELED ABOUT 13,550 MILES BEFORE IT DISAPPEARED IN BRAN, ROMANIA!!
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ABOUT CHINESE NEW YEAR:
Chinese New Year is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Spring Festival, the literal translation of the modern Chinese name. Celebrations traditionally run from the evening preceding the first day, to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first calendar month. The first day of the New Year falls on the new moon between 21 January and 20 February. In 2016, the first day of Chinese New Year falls on Monday, 8 February.
The New Year festival is centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Traditionally, the festival was a time to honour deities as well as ancestors. Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with significant Chinese populations, including Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mauritius, and the Philippines. Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar new year celebrations of its geographic neighbours.
Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the Chinese New Year vary widely. Often, the evening preceding Chinese New Year's Day is an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. 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 color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of "good fortune" or "happiness", "wealth", and "longevity". Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.
Although the Chinese calendar traditionally does not use continuously numbered years, outside China its years are often numbered from the reign of the 3rd millennium BCE Yellow Emperor. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by various scholars, making the year beginning CE 2015 the "Chinese year" 4713, 4712, or 4652.
The Monkey (猴) is the ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Monkey is associated with the Earthly Branch symbol 申.