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 Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:47 pm
The lunar new year is *finally* here! In our family, we have a tradition of leading up to the lunar new year with a series of unfortunate events (tm), so I'm pathetically glad to mentally cross off the old year as gone and done. We're celebrating by being snowed in and sending me out into the bitter snowy cold to go pick up some Chinese carryout... wink Yes Laren, that's me trying to guilt-trip you.
Does anyone else here celebrate the Chinese New Year?
Is this *your* year (the same sign you were born under)?
I'll post my sign later, as it's time for my snowy trek in search of Chinese goodness...
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 8:47 pm
Happy Chinese New Year! I don't know if my family is aware of when the Lunar year is, let alone celebrate it...
I'ma Horse, but my Mom is a Boar..so, yay for her?
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Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 9:09 pm
I'm a snake, so personally I want to eat boars.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:57 am
I'm a rat (but I'm secretly a dragon in disguise!) so my year will be 2008! Yay!
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:21 am
Joshua_Ritter I'm a snake, so personally I want to eat boars. Woot! Me too as well! Okay, except that part about wanting to eat Boars. My mom's a Boar. Actually, I'm a Fire Snake. Each year has an element as well. This year is the Fire Pig, which I take to mean this is going to be a great year for barbecue. Last year was Wood Dog (also sometimes called Wolf), and the year prior was the Wood c**k. Heh. I was amused all that year... Next year will be a Fire year as well - they go two at a time around the sheng cycle, as far as I can tell. That being the cycle of creation. Wood feeds Fire feeds Earth feeds Metal feeds Water feeds Wood. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 10:32 am
I don't realy celebrate the chinese new year, but i know i was born in the year of the rooster. and my bro was born in the yaer of the dog.
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:13 pm
We had a special study break for it. ^_^ I was quite happy.
I'm a Fire Tiger, born in the hour of the Rat, if memory serves. (It's been a while since I looked at that book that elaborated on it.) I'm very tiger-ish, I've realized, so I'm quite happy.
Hmm...going backwards, my boyfriend would be a...Wood Ox, perhaps? I really need to look this stuff up again. >_<
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:29 pm
I'm a Ram, and an Aries... Somehow seems I was destined to be a Goat confused
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:51 pm
Yvaine Joshua_Ritter I'm a snake, so personally I want to eat boars. Woot! Me too as well! Okay, except that part about wanting to eat Boars. My mom's a Boar. Actually, I'm a Fire Snake. Each year has an element as well. This year is the Fire Pig, which I take to mean this is going to be a great year for barbecue. Last year was Wood Dog (also sometimes called Wolf), and the year prior was the Wood c**k. Heh. I was amused all that year... Next year will be a Fire year as well - they go two at a time around the sheng cycle, as far as I can tell. That being the cycle of creation. Wood feeds Fire feeds Earth feeds Metal feeds Water feeds Wood. Lather, rinse, repeat. What's the element for 1991, then? ^_^
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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 8:22 pm
Si, whats the element for 1990?
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:42 am
Yarg, my copy of the book with the elements listed has some sort of weird camouflage. Every time I go hunting for it, it takes me *hours*. Gimme a bit, I swear it will eventually turn up. I never lend it out.
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:55 am
Aila-al-Jehan Si, whats the element for 1990? metal, I know cause I am a metal horse and I was born in 1990... well if your past the Chinese new year date, but yeah, metal is apparently people whom are better at working for what they want >.< *dances the robotic horse dance*
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Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:04 am
General Stank Aila-al-Jehan Si, whats the element for 1990? metal, I know cause I am a metal horse and I was born in 1990... well if your past the Chinese new year date, but yeah, metal is apparently people whom are better at working for what they want >.< *dances the robotic horse dance*
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:16 pm
Found the book! Lemme just post the years following mine, since I seem to be the oldest person in the guild. I'll list the year, the day the Chinese year started, the Kua number (that's been translated as "star" in other books) for Male/Female, then the element and animal:
1977 (Feb. 1 cool - 5/1 - Fire Snake
1978 (Feb. 7) - 4/2 - Earth Horse
1979 (Jan. 2 cool - 3/3 - Earth Sheep
1980 (Feb. 16) - 2/4 - Metal Monkey
1981 (Feb. 5) - 1/5 - Metal c**k ( whee )
1982 (Jan. 25) - 9/6 - Water Dog
1983 (Feb. 13) - 8/7 - Water Pig
1984 (Feb. 2) - 7/8 - Wood Rat
1985 (Feb. 20) - 6/9 - Wood Ox
1986 (Feb. 9) - 5/1 - Fire Tiger
1987 (Jan. 29) - 4/2 - Fire Rabbit
1988 (Feb. 17) - 3/3 - Earth Dragon
1989 (Feb. 6) - 2/4 - Earth Snake
1990 (Jan. 27) - 1/5 - Metal Horse
1991 (Feb. 15) - 9/6 - Metal Sheep
1992 (Feb. 4) - 8/7 - Water Monkey
1993 (Jan. 23) - 7/8 - Water c**k
1994 (Feb. 10) - 6/9 - Wood Dog
1995 (Jan. 31) - 5/1 - Wood Pig
1996 (Feb. 19) - 4/2 - Fire Rat
1997 (Feb. 7) - 3/3 - Fire Ox
And after that, if anyone's too young for that list, I'm surprised. If you are, extrapolate. You've got a fair chunk to work with. Does anyone have any good links to sites that explain about Kua numbers? I can post, but it'd involve basically typing in an entire long chapter from a book.
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Posted: Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:18 pm
...Which also reminds me - does anyone have a break-down of the hours for the different animals? I had one, and I have no idea where I put it. All I know is that the hour of the Dog is around dinnertime, which is about no help.
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