Se-tenant: Holy Days & Celebrations (Chinese New Year) (Thailand 2008)

Holy Days & Celebrations (Chinese New Year) (Thailand 2008)

01 February (Thailand ) within release Chinese New Year 2008 goes into circulation Se-tenant Holy Days & Celebrations (Chinese New Year) face value 4*5 Thai baht

Se-tenant Holy Days & Celebrations (Chinese New Year) in catalogues
Michel: Mi: TH 2644-2647
Yvert et Tellier: Yt: TH 2466-2469
Stanley Gibbons: Sg: TH 2868a

Se-tenant is square format.

Also in the issue Chinese New Year 2008:

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Se-tenant Holy Days & Celebrations (Chinese New Year) in digits
Country: Thailand
Date: 2008-02-01
Print: Offset lithography
Perforation: comb 14¾ x 14¼
Emission: Commemorative
Format: Se-tenant
Face Value: 4*5 Thai baht
Print run: 1000000

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Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (see also § Names) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, observances traditionally take place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year, to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February

A dragon is a magical legendary creature that appears in the folklore of multiple cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in Western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as winged, horned, and capable of breathing fire. Dragons in eastern cultures are usually depicted as wingless, four-legged, serpentine creatures with above-average intelligence. Commonalities between dragons' traits are often a hybridization of feline, reptilian, mammalian, and avian features. Some scholars believe large extinct or migrating crocodiles bear the closest resemblance, especially when encountered in forested or swampy areas, and are most likely the template of modern Asian dragon imagery

The New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1 (New Year's Day, preceded by New Year's Eve). This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and the Roman calendar (after 153 BC)

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