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What Is The Lunar New Year ?

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Gromit | 00:44 Sun 22nd Jan 2023 | News
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I don’t remember any fuss about this in previous years.
We had the New year, then the Chinese New Year.
Is the Lunar New Year some muslim or Asian thing ?
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It encompasses the Chinese New Year

“Lunar New Year is the beginning of a lunar calendar or lunisolar calendar year, whose months are moon cycles. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in different ways and at different dates.
The more well-known celebrations include New Year's Day (or week) in the Chinese calendar (and related national calendars) of the East Asian cultural sphere;the Hindu and Buddhist calendars of South and Southeast Asia; the Islamic calendar; and the Jewish calendar that originated in the Middle East. It is also celebrated by other cultures, such as the Nisga'a people of Canada. The determination of the first day of a new lunar year varies by culture.”
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So they have just rebranded the Chinese New Year.
^^^ It's simply giving the event a more accurate name, Gromit.

Quote:
"The Lunar New Year is a public holiday that is observed across multiple days in China, North and South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, and Vietnam. Filial ties typically take center stage during this time as people return to their hometowns to observe the holiday with their families."

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https://time.com/6248736/lunar-new-year-celebrations/

Western nations, especially the UK, have tended to refer to 'Chinese New Year' simply because there are large populations of Hong Kong Chinese descent in several parts of those countries. So we see fireworks and street celebrations in, say, London's China Town. However we don't have many large populations here who've descended from families in, say, Vietnam. So we don't as readily link celebrations for the Lunar New Year to Vietnam as we do to China.
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Thank you Chris.
I wonder who suddenly decided that Chinese New Year was passé and implemented the change ?
People who realised it's not just the Chinese that celebrate a lunar new year?
We don't call January 1st Roman New Year
I blame Brexit
The Islamic year is based on the moon cycles which is why it's 11 days short each year and Ramadan for example is earlier every year.
an ABer writes
a lunar year 'as firteen monfs, yeah?
Poncey P: thirteen months, year?
AB - yeah dat wot I said, yeah?
PP - o gawd ! (thx Naomi) [ shows distain and yet inexhaustible Good Humour on a cold day].
AB: and if there are firteen ( thirteen, yeah I said dat, you deaf?) firteen den, the New Year aint gonna be Jan 1st
PP - your logic is impeccable ( Blackadder)
AB yeah well dat's it !
PP for another year. thank you
and Prince harry has gone on U tube with a comment
" all these things I learn. Loony isnt it?"
We don't call January 1st Roman New Year
yeah but no but
we DO call it the New Year according to the Gregorian calendar
the sdifference is that that the -00 years, 1600, 1700 is only a leap year if divisible by 400 ( all are divisible by 4) and this gives the second or third decimal place correction

year is not QUITE 365 1/4 d
I wonder who suddenly decided that Chinese New Year was passé and implemented the change ?

it could just have happened

I wanted Manchester in Chinese and the shirt seller in San Francisco said - there will be ( Manchester) characters for Manchester and I dont know what they are.
I asked who decided
and he said - oh just is.
I get lunar pay. Every four weeks, thirteen paydays per year.
qong hey fat choy - babies !
leng ma?

cries of foo what he just written
and other cries of " dat not Duke of edinburgh-eyed forrin innit?"
I get lunar pay. Every four weeks, thirteen paydays per year.

foo! you on benefits den?
No. Many employers pay on the lunar calendar. It works well.
Once a year you get two paydays between monthly rent or mortgage payments.
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Year of the Rabbit.
///Rabbit is a tame and tender animal, and swift in move. People born in the Year of the Rabbit usually have soft and tender personality traits. They keep a modest attitude and maintain a pleasant relationship to people around. They will not be irritated easily, and they also avoid quarrels as much as possible.///
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/intro/social_customs/zodiac/rabbit/

Not so many of them on AB perhaps.

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