{"id":479774,"date":"2026-02-17T03:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479774\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T03:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T03:47:09","slug":"lunar-new-year-2026-live-year-of-the-fire-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/479774\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year 2026 live: Year of the Fire Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Timing of Lunar New Year ‘feels right’ for one New York bookshop ownerpublished at 02:18 GMT<\/p>\n

02:18 GMT<\/p>\n

\"\"Sakshi Venkatraman
US reporter<\/p>\n

I caught up with one New York City Chinatown business owner, Lucy Yu, who has decked out her bookstore in lanterns and tapestries for the new year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a particularly harsh winter in New York, with the snow only just starting to thaw after several weeks of below freezing temperatures.<\/p>\n

Yu says she couldn\u2019t wait for the Year of the Snake to be over and for the Year of the Horse to begin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t always feel like it\u2019s the right time to have a new beginning at the end of December,\u201d Yu tells me, adding that this year however, the timing of Lunar New Year \u201cfeels right\u201d.<\/p>\n

Her store, Yu & Me Books, is in the heart of the neighbourhood, and Yu says this time of year always fills the whole block with excitement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s particularly special to her after, in 2023, the entire bookstore burned down. It was a community effort to get the store back on its feet, she said, and she managed to re-open before Lunar New Year the following year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we have a really deep understanding of looking out for each other,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The Year of the Horse is about \u201creally strong, running start beginnings,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\"AImage source, Sakshi VenkatramanImage caption, <\/p>\n

Lucy Yu can’t wait for the Year of the Horse to begin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Timing of Lunar New Year ‘feels right’ for one New York bookshop ownerpublished at 02:18 GMT 02:18 GMT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-479774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}