CNY Is Coming

Why would someone that claims to be from China call it CHINESE New Year rather than just, you know, New Year?
 
The restaurant down the street does the same thing with calendars.

I would not know it is a Chinese calendar without being told.
 
Why would someone that claims to be from China call it CHINESE New Year rather than just, you know, New Year?


Well, even in China, the lunar new year is only considered as a festival, the most important festival though. We still take 1st January as new year.
 
CNY is almost over, next Mondy will be Lantern's Day which is normally considered as the last day of CNY...

I put 2 kgs of holiday weight.:(
 
Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) was the 23rd of January (big fireworks on new year's eve the 22nd)

It is the Year of the Dragon!

"Breaking through the new year" was on Friday the 27th (also big fireworks in China)

Lantern Festival ends Spring Festival (the last big fireworks in China)
 
I always wanted to be a rabbit. But I'm a sheep. Or a goat. Depending on what restaurant I'm in. WTF is that? All the rest are the same, but mine's one or the other, and they're both mind-numbed pack animals.
 
Your suppose to eat dumplings and fish...

My wife stayed up until midnight on the 22nd, just to eat her fucking dumplings. The Chinese believe it brings good luck as they are shaped like old money.
 
Your suppose to eat dumplings and fish...

My wife stayed up until midnight on the 22nd, just to eat her fucking dumplings. The Chinese believe it brings good luck as they are shaped like old money.

i'd stay up til 1 to eat her dumplings.
 
I always wanted to be a rabbit. But I'm a sheep. Or a goat. Depending on what restaurant I'm in. WTF is that? All the rest are the same, but mine's one or the other, and they're both mind-numbed pack animals.

There is no goat. So, you can be a sheep or a rabbit.
 
Sweet. I'd be a rabbit if I could pick- but 1991 is a sheep right? August?

It's the year, not the month. There are 12 different ones, naturally. Next is the snake year. It's a bogus Chinese restaurant if they show you a goat as part of their zodiac. A ram yes, it would be the sheep.
 
It's the year, not the month. There are 12 different ones, naturally. Next is the snake year. It's a bogus Chinese restaurant if they show you a goat as part of their zodiac. A ram yes, it would be the sheep.

I mention the year because the Chinese year is different from the Gregorian year, so the beginning of the year is in a different Chinese year then the end is.

I just confused myself- so that may sound like gibberish; but there was an idea of coherency behind it.

:confused::confused::confused:
 
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