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Since no-one else's posted something about it, I thought I'd better do so before the day ends (it will in about 10 minutes for me ).

Today (9th February) is the first day of the year of the Rooster, year 2005 in the Gregorian Calendar, although according to the Chinese Calendar, which is based on lunar cycles and observations of the Sun's position, it is the year 4703.

Although we do recognise it as a festival, we personally don't celebrate it much, since we're quite far from the rest of our relatives (who live in Malaysia), and aren't part of an Oriental community, so I can't really say that I know much about the traditions and cultures behind it. However, I did find this Wikipedia article on it, which is quite informative, and maybe someone who knows about it a bit better than I do can also step in to mention something too.

Anyway, to the DROD.net Forum, "kung hei fat choi" (this is the Cantonese version of the standard greeting, which we use, although my parents mainly speak Hokkien, which is a little odd. It roughly translates as "congratulations and be prosperous"), and if you do celebrate it (or even if not), have a great Chinese New Year!

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Happy Chinese New Year! An if you're curious as to what year you were born on, look at this chart (I was born in the Year of the Snake 1989).

Taken from http://www.new-year.co.uk/chinese/calendar.htm :

   	
Rat   	1924 	1936 	1948 	1960 	1972 	1984 	1996
Ox 	1925 	1937 	1949 	1961 	1973 	1985 	1997
Tiger 	1926 	1938 	1950 	1962 	1974 	1986 	1998
Rabbit 	1927 	1939 	1951 	1963 	1975 	1987 	1999
Dragon 	1928 	1940 	1952 	1964 	1976 	1988 	2000
Snake 	1929 	1941 	1953 	1965 	1977 	1989 	2001
Horse 	1930 	1942 	1954 	1966 	1978 	1990 	2002
Sheep 	1931 	1943 	1955 	1967 	1979 	1991 	2003
Monkey 	1932 	1944 	1956 	1968 	1980 	1992 	2004
Rooster 1933 	1945 	1957 	1969 	1981 	1993 	2005
Dog 	1934 	1946 	1958 	1970 	1982 	1994 	2006
Boar 	1935 	1947 	1959 	1971 	1983 	1995 	2007 

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I always thought it was a very strange theory to classify personality types by the year in which people are born. Wouldn't that mean something like half the people in your graduating class have exactly the same personality type as you? Would we really have so much in common with people our own age? Maybe I have been reading too many placemats in Chinese restaurants, but that's how it's supposed to work right? Me and Brittany are both rats, by the way.

-Erik

[Edited by ErikH2000 at Local Time:02-10-2005 at 12:18 AM]

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I'm a sheep (1991).

-Noah

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I'm a dragon (1976), as my father before me (1952) ...and so is my son, Seth (2000).

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NoahT wrote:
I'm a sheep (1991).

It's ram, not sheep, BTW.

Happy Chinese New Year!



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Maybe Noah follows fashion trends blindly...

Nah. He plays DROD.

Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! Anyone go to the New Year celebrations?

Matt

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You know, there's actually a not-so-close friend of mine that is always bragging about his Chinese girlfriends. He even went to China to get a girlfriend! Last time I saw him, he was already married to her! (I'm not that old yet...)

Anyway, he also told to me that Chinese people consider Chinese New Year more important that Christmas. And that it's really important to celebrate it even when you're outside China.

I must say, they do play something like a dressed up dragon dancing around. I find it really cool

Agaricus, so what did you do yesterday for celebration?

And Happy Chinese New Year to anyone who likes it

-- Tim

[Edited by Tim at Local Time:02-11-2005 at 12:09 AM]

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