TD
#0
So I suppose it\'s pointless to ask what people are doing for the Lunar New year...
but then I thought that maybe the old calendar is affected by lunar new year....
in Asia, things pretty much shut down for the day (thursday)... and roads are crowded for the surrounding day
At St Nicholas in Seoul we will be having a memorial service, and eating \"ddok kuk\" (rice cake soup)... Korean tradition on lunar new year is to eat ddok kuk, and they say you \"eat a year\" (funky system for calculating your age... at birth you are 1, and every lunar new year you gain a year - not on your birthday... something like that... it reminds me of calculating pascha!)
anyway, happy new year everyone!
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John Chan
#4
Happy New Year!
My mother never gave much effort to maintaining Chinese traditions in our family. The seven of us kids grew up in a very \"Joy Luck Club\" environment.
Oddly, however, Mom always used the Chinese calendar to calculate her birthday and age. Her birthday would fall from anywhere between late July to early September, and occasionally she would have two birthdays if her month was the one that repeated in the cycle.
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Elena Ribarevski
#3
I was planning to go to my favorite Chinese restaurant this week. They usually have some special foods this week. I read something interesting about my Chinese Zodiac sign. I was born in the year of the fire horse (1966). During the previous year of the fire horse (1906), virtually NONE of the women born that year were able to get married, due to the personality characteristics attributed to the fire horse. (headstrong, stubborn, independent, etc.) Many women actually lied about the year of their birth, so that men would be willing to marry them. By 1966, more people were \"open minded\" enough not to shun women with \"fire horse\" personality traits. On a side note, I\'m not married;-)
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KR
#2
In Russia celebrate new year as the majority on the Earth on the night of January, 1st. Here rare families celebrate Old new year on January, 14th. But in Ukraine very cheerfully celebrate old new year -
sing, glorify the born Christ (kalyadyut), go on a visit with a den, play Christmas*s theme [URL=http://img119.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc00337nz2.jpg][/URL]
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KR
#1
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