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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark" data-source="post: 660404" data-attributes="member: 5">For the Chinese... The Year of the Goat (Ram, Sheep)The Chinese Lunar New Year is one of 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. 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."<a href="http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html" target="_blank">http://www.educ.uvic.ca/faculty/mroth/438/CHINA/chinese_new_year.html</a>_______________________________________________For the Koreans... The Year of the HorseKoreans celebrate the Lunar New Year. This year it was on February 1st. On this very day the year of the Horse began. Seol is, along with " Chusok", one of the two most important holidays in Korea.The New Year's greeting is "say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh".  Recently people have started to say "Make a lot of blessings this year". It is a more active saying, isn't it? I think that perhaps it's because of the hardships Korea is going through. If we observe the meaning of the greeting "say hay" means 'New Year', "boke" means 'blessings', "mahn he" means 'a lot' and "pah du say oh", 'please receive'. It literally means "Please receive many New year's blessings". Many New Year's blessings to you!<a href="http://www.clickasia.co.kr/about/h0101.htm" target="_blank">http://www.clickasia.co.kr/about/h0101.htm</a>_________________________________________________For the Vietnamese... The Year of the GoatFor the majority of Vietnamese, Tet evokes a magic period of the year when everyone forgets his or her misfortune or misery during the previous year. It is the start of the new year in the lunar calendar. Rich or poor, young or old, everyone is going to celebrate it with solemnity and cheerfulness. It is the moment to dream and to recover hope. It is also the period when peasants let their fields take a break while hoping to have better crops next year thanks to the renewal of nourishing nature.<a href="http://www.limsi.fr/Recherche/CIG/etet1.htm" target="_blank">http://www.limsi.fr/Recherche/CIG/etet1.htm</a>__________________________________________________Where ever you are, who ever you are, Happy Lunar New Year!</blockquote>

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