Publisher's Synopsis
- The United States Postal Service has succesfully marketed a series of stamps with the Chinese Zodiac animals. 12 stamps have been issued one per year beginning with 1992's Year of the Rooster. 2005 featured a collector's set which has sold out. - January 29, 2006 = 4704 in the Chinese Lunar Calendar, which billions of people around the world celebrate. - Chinese New Year is a two week Spring festival celebrated for over 5,000 years in China and now worldwide. For example, The San Francisco Chinese New Year celebration originated in the 1860's and is now the largest Asian event in North America as well as the largest general market event in Northern California.
