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 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 7:11 am
Gung hay fat choy, sun nien fy lok!
Yep yep. It's 4705! Year of the pig!
This is one of my favorite events in the year...
The food, the money, what would be better?
Do you celebrate it? Have you ever?
And is anyone here born in the year of the pig?
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:08 am
actually, its the year of the boar.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:34 am
Happy Lunar New Year!
Chuc mung nam moi!
In Vietnamese, we also say pig. o__O
And the year of the rabbit is the year of the cat, I believe.
My mom usually sets up a little shrine for her ancestors and prays to them at midnight. The rest of us white-washed people just go over to a relative's house and party. We give warm wishes to our elders, they give us red envelopes, and we gamble and play dice and card games and eat weird foods and sweets.
Usually everybody wears red for good luck. And when we play our games, we hope for red cards, the red sides of the dice, and eat these red seed things that I can never crack open. It's a lot of fun.
I was born in the year of the tiger - 'nother 3 or 4 years to go.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:29 am
I'm whiter than white. I don't celebrate. o_o (Sounds fun, though >>)
Incidentally, I'ma horse.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:21 pm
Pigs. PIGS! I want money too.
But happy New Year! I'm a wooden Ox.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 12:46 pm
nemesiss actually, its the year of the boar.
Actually, in Chinese, it's pig.
There are so many superstitions I have to follow on new years.
Like not washing your hair, which is actually kind of gross because traditionally, new years in celebrated for 15 days...
You're not supposed to "wash out" the good luck and all.
And the cleaning. Good lord, the cleaning beforehand.
gonk
I haven't eaten any fat choy yet, which is sad- that stuff is soooo good.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 1:02 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:42 pm
We don't really celebrate it, or at least we don't make a big deal out of it. I usually get some candy, hum bao, or whatever kind of treats are available. No money or anything else particularly special though. Sometimes there is dinner, usually not though.
And yeah, the calender changes depending on what country you're talking about because the different legends change slightly. Usually it's a pig though. With the exception of the cat, it's usually just a different type of the animal. Boar-pig, Cow-Ox, etc.
I'm also an Ox.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 2:54 pm
Wow, that is all reall neat. I'd love to be able to see how you celebrate. I'm american so out new yeats was last month and we don't have animals that mmm.... well, what do your animals for? I know that i'm an Ox though so what would that do?
Have a happy new year, good luck with the no washing things.lol
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:38 pm
I am an ox. Wood, I believe. It's kinda funny, given the legend of how the animals raced and were give years. Because Aries is the first Western zodiac, and Ox would be the first Eastern zodiac if it weren't for that pesky rat.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:45 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 4:48 pm
I bet Setzer's a rat. ninja
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:51 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 5:52 pm
Well, the Chinese zodiac animals have the same uses as the solar zodiac signs.
I'm a metal horse, and the description is freakishly accurate to me.
More so than the description of a cancer.
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 6:18 pm
i found out it was this weekend by accident, by overhearing some girls talking about it on the subway. duh. i like it but i am a honky and so i only sort of glom onto other people's traditions. i would have liked to have gone to the parade if they'd had one here. maybe they don't. boston is lame.
i'm a Dog, beeyatch
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