PORTALJABAR, BANDUNG CITY - Chinese New Year will fall on February 10 2024. This year the zodiac sign is the Wood Dragon which symbolizes strength, prosperity, luck, honor and success.

The Chinese zodiac sign in the year of the Wood Dragon 2024 brings opportunities for leadership and self-reflection. The Dragon can anticipate a period that brings great accomplishments and opportunities for significant personal growth.

Meanwhile, the wood element symbolizes growth, flexibility and care for objects in nature.

Similar to a tree growing to reach the sky, wood represents the idea of becoming bigger and adapting to new situations.

"The Year of the Wooden Dragon 2024 will be a year of new changes full of potential and opportunities," said the Trustee of the Tanda Bakti Temple, Tan Tjong Boe.

Tan said, apart from the previous year which was hit by the COVID-19 disaster, 2024 is more ambitious and has positive energy.

"We hope that this year will be very good, because the year of the dragon is unique, especially as the wood element is innovative and creative. It is interpreted as having high flexibility," he explained.

He said that various dragon elements, from fire to wood, have unique characteristics.

"Beginning before wood was fire, then wood, earth, metal and water. It's all related to supporting each other. We believe this year has an extraordinary, ambitious mission, so that this year is more advanced than the previous year," said Tan.