Happy Chinese New Year

[redstorm]

Gong Hay Fat Choi

Nouvelle Année Heureuse

Just wanted to wish my fellow Asian and non-Asian friends best wishes and good luck in the New Year.

It's the Year of the Boar (Pig).

Hope to personally hand out Red Envelopes the next time in town to some lucky girl(s), I mean people.

Have a good one.

Redstorm

 

[Fat Happy Buddha]

Hi Redstorm,

Gong Hay Fat Choi (or Gong Xi Fa Cai) to you and yours also.

If I can get my work done tonight, I might be able to attend a nice Chinese New's Years dinner tomorrow evening.

It was great meeting you at the last GT.

FHB

 

[jacep]

Why is it always called "Chinese" New Year when other Asian people also observe it like the Vietnamese?

Before anyone writes why I'm anti-Chinese, I'm not. I'm 50% Chinese.

 

[Agrippa]

Why is it always called "Chinese" New Year when other Asian people also observe it like the Vietnamese?

I'm taking a stab at the question:
+ because to westerners 'all Asians look/are Chinese'
+ because the population of China is 1.3 billion whereas Vietnam's is 'only' 332 million.

Is it called the Chinese New Year in Mandarin or Cantonese also?

 

[SomeGuy]

Gong Hay Fat Choi

Nouvelle Année Heureuse

Just wanted to wish my fellow Asian and non-Asian friends best wishes and good luck in the New Year.

It's the Year of the Boar (Pig).

Hope to personally hand out Red Envelopes the next time in town to some lucky girl(s), I mean people.

Have a good one.

Redstorm

Year of the Pig, so in other words, it is the year of Merbites?

 

[joelcairo]

My mistake: I thought it was the year of Paul Martin.

 

[jacep]

Is it called the Chinese New Year in Mandarin or Cantonese also?

Not sure since I only know a little bit of Chinese being 50% and all but I think that it is just called "New Year" in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese). However, when 2 Chinese people say it to one another in English, they will say "Chinese New Year" when it is in fact a celebration of the "Lunar New Year".

 

[vtguy]

It's the Year of the Boar (Pig).

My fav MP (asian) said it's a special "Golden Pig" year, which happens every 60 years only. Lot's of pregnancies planned. 2008 won't be so great...

 

[Fat Happy Buddha]

Not sure since I only know a little bit of Chinese being 50% and all but I think that it is just called "New Year" in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese). However, when 2 Chinese people say it to one another in English, they will say "Chinese New Year" when it is in fact a celebration of the "Lunar New Year".

In the Chinese language, the entire holiday usually is called the "Spring Festival" (chun jie), while the change of the year is simply called the "New Year". It is celebrated is most East Asian countries, including Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and so on. The holiday is based on the lunar calender.

 

[AllOverHer]

I don't know who was quick enough to think about that one but I think it's the funniest thing I read in decades.

Happy New Year to the Chinese and the Cops

It's the year of the pig