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Happy Chinese New Year!!!!!!!
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| Busy Child |
Many of you guys may not know, January 22nd is Chinese New Year!!!
You dont have to be Chinese to celebrate it. . . . .well, im vietnamese and my ancestors are chinese so that's why viets celebrate it and we call it Tet.
The Chinese Lunar New Year is the longest chronological record in history, dating from 2600BC, when the Emperor Huang Ti introduced the first cycle of the zodiac. Like the Western calendar, The Chinese Lunar Calendar is a yearly one, with the start of the lunar year being based on the cycles of the moon. Therefore, because of this cyclical dating, the beginning of the year can fall anywhere between late January and the middle of February. This year it falls on February 12th. A complete cycle takes 60 years and is made up of five cycles of 12 years each.
The Chinese Lunar Calendar names each of the twelve years after an animal. Legend has it that the Lord Buddha summoned all the animals to come to him before he departed from earth. Only twelve came to bid him farewell and as a reward he named a year after each one in the order they arrived. The Chinese believe the animal ruling the year in which a person is born has a profound influence on personality, saying: "This is the animal that hides in your heart."
This year is the year of the Monkey!! |
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| {b.s.e.} |
I'm a pig. :D
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| {b.s.e.} |
| Apparently it's not 1980 anymore. |
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| DJYaNiK |
| quote: | Originally posted by {b.s.e.}
Apparently it's not 1980 anymore. |
Tranceaddict Forums... huh? What's a forum? The internet? Isn't that a government thing? |
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| Maaz |
Happy Chinese New Year :cool:
(thanks for the info, Busy Child, it's very interesting :)) |
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| PhaseFour |
gung hey fhat choy, everyone!
strike: gimme ur lai sees, bitch ;) |
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| astroboy |
May the year of the monkey bring the best of luck to all of you and your families!!
Gong Xi Fa Cai! or Gong Hay Fat Choi if you speak Canto. Or if you speak some other language or dialect: *insert appropriate traditional congratulatory message here* |
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| Mystre |
| chinese new year use to suck had to go eat at some ty ass chinese place, I live next to oakland cant, recall goin to okaland chinatown once for new years. But now im in college so i get money and dont have to go eat ty food and see all the family |
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| benh |
Happy New Year!
It's that time to go out and collect lucky money! hehe |
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| astroboy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Mystre
chinese new year use to suck had to go eat at some ty ass chinese place, I live next to oakland cant, recall goin to okaland chinatown once for new years. But now im in college so i get money and dont have to go eat ty food and see all the family |
If you're knockin Chinese food, we will have no choice but to battle to the death! :D If it's just that particular place then I feel your pain... there are few things quite as bad as bad Chinese food. |
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| Mystre |
| nah bro it just i theres good chinese in chinatown but we never went to chinatown so it sucked |
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