Happy Chinese New Year!!!

[jonesy]

Oh come on. They must count the years somehow. How else would they know how many times that cycle has gone through? Or are you suggesting they just say "long time ago"?

 

[DragonSword]

Come on, nothing beats "long time ago".

Ok, seriously, the CHinese use the stem-branch system.

A year is a branch - they are named after animals like I said before.

A cycle is a full twelve years, and there are ten stems, named after five elements, each with a "yin" and a "yang" (Wood, Earth etc...)

The year of 2005 is the year of the Wooden Rooster (also called the Green Rooster).

Cycles are then numbered I guess. 2005 is the 4702nd Chinese year.

 

[DragonSword]

I'm not Chinese so if I got any of that wrong, please tell me.

 

[jonesy]

...2005 is the 4702nd Chinese year.

And that right there is what I was curious of. Thanks anyway.

 

[DragonSword]

Phew. Okay, made it in the end.

 

[Wombat]

As a kid, due to a Chinese friend of my dad's, we kids always got 2 New Years parties.

We always looked forward to "the second one" because it had better food

Have some bao, blow off some firecrackers, dress in red & gold, and may luck follow you throughout the year!

 

[FireLance]

Hi, ayrwind, Gong Xi Fa Cai right back atcha.

 

[Hand of Evil]

As a rat I say happy new year!

 

[diaglo]

Knee How Ma


Happy New Year

 

[ender_wiggin]

Knee How Ma?

How am I doing? Don't you love caucasian phoenetic translations?