<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/blog/2019/lunar-new-year.php" dsn="blogs"><type>Internal</type><external_link/><featured/><category>The Charger Blog</category><pubDate>02/04/2019</pubDate><title>University of New Haven Student Describes Lunar New Year as a Time of Happiness</title><description>This year, the Lunar New Year – also called the Chinese New Year – falls on February 5. For Xuanfeng Fang ’20 M.S., a graduate student in computer science from China, it is a time of celebration that brings families together for much more than one day.</description><hide-description/><author>Xuanfeng Fang ’20 M.S.</author><author-details/><hide-author/><date>February 4, 2019</date><image><img src="https://newhaven.edu/_resources/images/news/non-college-specific/blog/2019/lny-lion-dance.jpg" alt="lion dance and writing couplets"/></image><image-caption>Lunar New Year celebrations typically include the lion dance and writing couplets.</image-caption><hide-image/><tags><tag>News</tag><tag>news-all</tag><tag>news-blog</tag><tag>year-2019</tag></tags></item>