Asia Greets Year of the Pig, Farewells the Dog

Happy Year Of the Pig wishing everyone a prosperous year ahead!

STXfilms chairman Adam Fogelson told Yahoo Finance, the company was approached by Alibaba to exclusively distribute the film in the USA in time for Lunar New Year.

In Hong Kong, worshippers stood in line for hours at the Wong Tai Sin Temple to welcome the lunar new year by lighting incense.

These temporary capacity reductions have been relatively successful.

The gift symbolizes good luck and prosperity in East Asian cultures.

The Chinese film market saw more than 1.4 billion yuan (about 215 million US dollars) in sales on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday.

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With Chinese New Year in full swing, babies born in 2019 will be born in The Year of the Pig - and according to the Chinese zodiac, they'll share personality traits with people born in 1935, 1947, 1959, 1971, 1983, 1995, and 2007. It is the Year of the Pig, an animal which symbolises wealth.

"On the eve of Chinese New Year, our whole big family has dinner together, then my grandparents prepare a bowl of food for the "Kitchen God", which we bring home and put on the stove", said Qian.

In London, lanterns are hung in Chinatown ahead of the Chinese New Year celebrations, a celebration marking the start of a New Moon and Spring. The Pig was also the Zodiac symbol for the years of 1935, 1947, 1959, 1983, 1995 and 2007.

The growing popularity of the celebrations was a sign of deepening ties between the two countries, as well as a recognition of historic links. The dates of the Lunar New Year are determined by the lunisolar Chinese calendar. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) In this Sunday, Feb. 3, 2019, photo, vendors carrying pig-shaped balloons for sale to mark the Lunar New Year in Hanoi, Vietnam.

What does the year of the pig mean?

It is also the most important holiday in Vietnam, where it is celebrated as Tet.