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Author: lycfmtkl
Date: 2007-02-17 16:11
Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year of the Pig.
Wishing all of you, especially those Chinese members of this board, a prosperous and happy Chinese Year.
Richard Lui
Hong Kong
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-02-17 20:15
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Mark,
just see it as yet another opportunity to celebrate! Happy new year, everyone, Chinese and otherwise!
--
Ben
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-02-17 20:21
My Chinese New Years Party is next Wednesday (my wife's Japanese and literally 50% of my co-workers in my department are Chinese, so I qualify )
My Party!
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Author: mk
Date: 2007-02-17 21:03
kong shi shing knien fa tai....something like that....come on give me help with this one bilinguals out there.
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2007-02-18 01:38
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We Koreans celebrate Chinese (or Lunar) New year, too.
We call it 'Seol Nal'.
It's more like Christmas in the US. All the family members gather -- in my case, at my house! (due to the fact that my husband is the eldest son of the family... and so forth..^^)
Please see how we (=males of the family) say hello to our ancesters. (in our case, my husband's grandparents and aunt who passed away.) Sorry I put the picture of last year's Harvest Day. But the food and the ceremony are exactly the same.:)
Happy Lunar New Year!
Lucy Lee Jang
Post Edited (2007-02-18 01:42)
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Author: BassetHorn
Date: 2007-02-18 03:41
In Mandarin Chinese: "Gong Shii Fa Tchai"
"Congratulations and wish you a prosperous year!"
Some famous people born in the Year of the Pig are (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_(zodiac)):
Alfred Hitchcock
Ronald Reagen
Henry Ford
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Bryan Adams
Jacques Villeneuve
Carlos Santana
Chiang Kai-shek
David Letterman
Elton John
Ernest Hemingway
among others...
and our clarinetist representative: Woody Allen!
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Author: Koo Young Chung
Date: 2007-02-18 14:26
I don't have any problem with Chinese or Koreans celebrating "Chinese New Year".
But it's very strange they don't use Lunar calendar at all.
They use the same Solar calendar as Americans do,but celebrate this new year's day as a biggest holiday of a year.
Most these people doesn't know their birthday in lunar calendar!
And srangest of all,they celebrate Jan 1st in solar calendar too.
How many new year's days do you need?
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-02-18 16:02
> How many new year's days do you need?
Ask your wife how many shoes she thinks she needs... (or Glenn how many clarinets). The answer will be along the same lines, I think. ![[tongue]](http://test.woodwind.org/clarinet/BBoard/smileys/smilie6.gif)
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Ben
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Author: mk
Date: 2007-02-18 18:04
Forgive my ignorance in this topic, but why do they call the chinese new year cake "moon cake" if they do not recognize the lunar calendar
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Author: claclaws
Date: 2007-02-18 23:46
In many of Korea's calendars, each day is marked with a small number underneath indicating the lunar calendar date.
I keep my birthday according to solar calendar, but all my inlaws keep theirs according to the lunar calendar, and my husband, both! (making me celebrate it twice ^^.. )
One of the things we do on the lunar new year's day is to mark every body's (lunar) birthdays on the (solar) calendar!
Lucy Lee Jang
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Author: Chris P
Date: 2007-02-19 14:14
Is next year the 'Year of the Rat'?
Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.
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Author: Roger Aldridge
Date: 2007-02-19 23:23
After everyone has had a great time celebrating Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) then gear up for the Mayan New Year...on February 23rd this year. It's the beginning of the Haab solar cycle of 365 days.
Post Edited (2007-02-19 23:24)
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-02-20 02:30
Mark:
I don't know a lot about computers, so I don't know how to fix your post of 2/17 @ 16:33 hrs, but all that showed in my screen was 4 rectangles - no words. Do I have to have a certain program to see what was there?
Eu
(Had to edit the time - got it wrong)
Post Edited (2007-02-20 02:35)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-02-20 02:47
EuGeneSee wrote:
> all that showed in my screen
> was 4 rectangles - no words. Do I have to have a certain
> program to see what was there?
You need Chinese fonts installed to see it.
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2007-02-20 02:54
Thanks, Mark: I guess it is just as well that I don't have the right font as I wouldn't be able to read it anyway . . . I never learned any Chinese except the symbol for "man". Eu
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