Today, February 5, is the end of the Chinese New Year celebration. Chinese New Year, known as the Spring Festival, typically lasts 15 or 16 days and always ends with the Lantern Festival \u2014 that\u2019s today\/night. Chinese New Year begins with the first new Moon of the year and ends with the following full Moon<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tonight\u2019s full Moon is commonly known as the Full Snow Moon because February is usually the snowiest month in the United States. Various cultures, of course, had their own names for each month\u2019s moon. The Cherokee tribe called February\u2019s full moon the Bone Moon because by this time of the year, the tribe\u2019s winter food supplies had usually dwindled down to the point where people had to gnaw on bones and cook bone marrow soup in order to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last evening the Moon was spectacular \u2014 I expect nothing less when tonight\u2019s full Moon rises.
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Today, February 5, is the end of the Chinese New Year celebration. Chinese New Year, known as the Spring Festival, typically lasts 15 or 16 days and always ends with the Lantern Festival \u2014 that\u2019s today\/night. Chinese New Year begins … Continue reading