Lunar New Yr 2026 reside: Yr of the Hearth Horse

[ad_1] Timing of Lunar New Yr 'feels proper' for one New York bookshop proprietor printed at 02:18 GMT 02:18 GMT

Sakshi Venkatraman US reporter

I caught up with one New York Metropolis Chinatown enterprise proprietor, Lucy Yu, who has decked out her bookstore in lanterns and tapestries for the brand new 12 months.

It’s been a very harsh winter in New York, with the snow solely simply beginning to thaw after a number of weeks of under freezing temperatures.

Yu says she couldn’t look ahead to the Yr of the Snake to be over and for the Yr of the Horse to start.

“It doesn’t all the time really feel prefer it’s the best time to have a brand new starting on the finish of December,” Yu tells me, including that this 12 months nonetheless, the timing of Lunar New Yr “feels proper”.

Her retailer, Yu & Me Books, is within the coronary heart of the neighbourhood, and Yu says this time of 12 months all the time fills the entire block with pleasure.

It’s significantly particular to her after, in 2023, all the bookstore burned down. It was a group effort to get the shop again on its toes, she stated, and he or she managed to re-open earlier than Lunar New Yr the next 12 months.

“I believe we have now a very deep understanding of looking for one another,” she says.

The Yr of the Horse is about “actually sturdy, operating begin beginnings,” she says.

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