Chinese Lunar New Year 2025
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Rock Hopper Steve
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Is this when they announce the yearly spirit animal.
Halbrowne61
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Already known, Year of the Snake.
Snidest 0
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Rock Hopper Steve
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Year of the snake comes up a lot how is it determined
Halbrowne61
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There are 12 signs of the Chinese Zodiac so each one comes up every 12 years.
Rather than write out a long winded post suggest you visit Chinese Zodiac on Wikipedia which will explain in detail.
Hope that helps RHS.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Cheers the 12 signs cycle explains enough hard enough keeping up with the forum lol.
upthetigers
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I call BS on that, it's the year of the Tiger!
Rock Hopper Steve
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Stop it you're killing me mate.
Isn't it just Lunar New Year? I've got a few Vietnamese friends who get the irrits if you call it Chinese New Year!
Dr Google says this:
"The two holidays are technically different as Lunar New Year refers to many different countries celebrating the new year according to the lunar calendar, while Chinese New Year refers specifically to the customs that the Chinese people celebrate."
AmericanHistoryX
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So Dr. Google must be right. I bow down on my knees. Thank you Dr. Google. I dont have to think for myself nor do any research. Better than the Bible, Torah, and Koran. Without intetepration. Just pure clean facts written by a man.
Rock Hopper Steve
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Don't know how many Asian countries follow it anybody know.
AmericanHistoryX
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Absolitely. The Chinese are predominantly living from heritage in other countries of similar chaste. Google it.
upthetigers
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I always knew it as Chinese New Year. Visited China town once and saw the walking dragons and whatnot. Eastern culture fascinates me.
Winston Churchill
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Whats it mean if you are the year of the 'cock' ?
Winston Churchill
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Lived in China for a long long time. Id guess I had 10-15 Lunar new years there over the years.
Its the be all and end all in Chinese culture. The entire country shuts down for 2 weeks. The first week is very structured spent visiting family and in-laws on certain days, the last week is usually a piss up with friends that are home visiting their families. Then back to 15hr days earning $100 a week for the next 50 weeks to pay for the next Lunar new year.
I know China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines (most if not all of SE Asia) celebrate it. Pretty much wherever there is a large Chinese population.
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It might be that you follow the Roosters in the NRL, or Spurs in the EPL, or some other appendage like that ..........
But it's the same date right?
Winston Churchill
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The Vietnamese call it Tet Nguyen Dan or 'Tet' and there are some minor differences to China but still based on the lunisolar calendar.
Tet was a very important date in context of the Vietnam war.
