Americans may think they know how to celebrate the 31st and bring in the new year, when the actual truth is the Chinese seem to practice the new year celebration with much more vigor. This is a fifteen-day festival that is celebrated in the metropolitan area of China that begins the New Year.
     The year of 2009 is known as the Year of the Ox to the Chinese, Ox years occur second in sequence and recur every 12 years in rotation. The purpose of  the Chinese New Year animals is to predict the personalities and achievements of those born in the certain year. According to www.usbridal.com those who are born in the Year of the Ox are “pragmatic and down-to-Earth”. They are motivated workers and very dependent on looking for answers in themselves, rather than looking to others.
     The Chinese New Year animals can even go as far as predicting what occupations would suit a 2009 born child. For example, job opportunities for those ranges in the artistic fields such as painters, interior designers, architects, and engineers.
     This tradition of predicting the New Year with an animal and personality traits has been growing since month 10 of 221 B.C. and is still popular to research to this day.
     To find out your Chinese horoscope using your animal, visit www.chinese.astrology.com.