KXLY February 11, 2021 8:10 PM Elenee Dao SPOKANE, Wash – Every year families gather to celebrate the Lunar New Year, and for the second year in a row, the Spokane Chinese Association has had to change its traditional celebrations. Eastern Asian countries like China, Vietnam, Korea and more go off of the lunisolar calendar. 2021 is the year of the ox, which in the Chinese culture represents health, strength and prosperity. That’s been tough to feel in the last year of the pandemic. “It’s very hard, I just have to say,” said Weiling Zhu, the president of the Spokane Chinese Association. It’s hard because in the Chinese culture, Lunar New Years means coming together and celebrating as one family, one community and one country.