PM Modi wishes Chinese people on Year of Rooster
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday wished Chinese people on the Year of the Rooster on Chinese social media platform 'Weibo'. The Chinese Year of Monkey formally ends on Friday, starting the Year of Rooster on Saturday. China has declared an official week-long holiday for the new year which is also celebrated as a Spring Festival.
From K J M Varma Beijing, Jan 27 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wished Chinese people a happy and prosperous year of the Rooster. "On the occasion of the Spring Festival, I wish all the people of China a happy and prosperous Year of the Rooster," Modi said in his greeting posted on his Chinese social media platform, Weibo. China formally bids farewell to the year of Monkey today and will herald the year of Rooster tomorrow. China has declared official holiday for a week. Chinese celebrate the new year as Spring Festival. Chinese lunar calendar years are grouped into a 12-year cycle, with each year assigned an animal symbol: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. The Prime Minister opened an account in Weibo, a twitter like social media platform which is very popular in China during his visit here in 2015 and continued to make use of it to interact with Chinese people. 