{"id":485603,"date":"2026-02-19T15:55:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485603\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:55:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:55:09","slug":"surrey-schools-north-surrey-secondary-highlights-east-and-south-east-asian-cultures-for-lunar-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485603\/","title":{"rendered":"Surrey Schools &#8211; North Surrey Secondary highlights East and South East Asian cultures for Lunar New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Feb. 17 marks the start of the Lunar New Year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/northsurreypasa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">North Surrey Secondary&#8217;s Pacific Asian Student Association (PASA)<\/a> is hosting events and activities to shine a spotlight on the many cultures that celebrate the Spring Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Observed by Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese and other South East Asian communities around the world, the Lunar New Year marks the first new moon of the lunisolar calendar and serves as a time to reflect on a year of hard work, as well as wish for a prosperous and luck-filled future in the year ahead. Many cultures adhere to the animal zodiac, with 2026 being the Year of the Horse, symbolizing strength, energy, passion and a free-spirited, independent nature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.surreyschools.ca\/north-surrey-secondary-highlights-east-and-southeast-asian-cultures-for-lunar-new-year.200016\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Feb. 17 marks the start of the Lunar New Year, North Surrey Secondary&#8217;s Pacific Asian Student Association&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-485603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485603","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=485603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}