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Happy New Years, Tildes! 新年快樂!
There's been a bit of discussion recently I've seen with "Lunar New Year" vs "Lunisolar New Year" vs "Chinese New Year" so I'm just keeping it simple, happy new year!
There's been a bit of discussion recently I've seen with "Lunar New Year" vs "Lunisolar New Year" vs "Chinese New Year" so I'm just keeping it simple, happy new year!
Yay, happy new year!
Time to find some moon cakes.
You might find more around Moon Festival time. You could try some nian gao (new year cakes).
I haven’t had those, I’ll look for them at the market. Thanks!
+1 for what mantrid said! Also can get noodles (for long life) and dumplings (for wealth)!
/* guiltily looks at the tin of moon cakes left over from Mid Autumn Fest *
Do you....do you want some?
I don't have any lunar new year foods at home today :/ haven't been to places that sell them for a long time. Maybe I'll make and eat noodles and dumplings today
Oooh, good idea. I have jiao zi in the freezer.
Happy new year! It's the year of the Snake/Serpent on some calendars (and the Wood Snake in specific).
I hope it's a healthy and auspicious year for everyone, especially my Snake cousins (I'm a Dragon). :)
haha idk how exactly it works but I was told that your "year" was supposed to be kinda bad luck-ish? (according to my parents at least)
Fair! I should've said "good fortune" instead of "luck!"
I think the fun thing about the chinese zodiac at least is I know now you're either 12, 24, 36, or 48 too now haha. (+1 if your birthday already passed lol)
Hah, yeah I was going to mention something else about being a dragon and remembered that would narrow my age down to a very specific birth month but also specific birth year because of the cyclical elemental cycle. :P
A while back I went down the rabbit hole of reading about different Southeast Asian zodiac calendars because, due to -- we'll call them cultural changes -- some countries have changed their calendars or reverted to an older system for "cultural" use, while still generally celebrating the Chinese New Year because of inertia (just as much of the world celebrates the Gregorian calendar's new year). Various calendar systems are really interesting. Was there just a thread about them?
I don't think there was a thread about them, but I've been seeing a lot of posts on my other social media feeds recently about specifically Vietnamese and Korean new year! It definitely would be nice to learn though.
It's my year, and I'm also a Wood Snake :) Thank you for the good wishes
I'm Korean, so happy 설날/seollal!
Edit: we typically eat this rice cake soup called tteokguk. Link to the recipe: https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/tteokguk
Side note: Honestly, it is hard encompass all of different new year from different countries, so I agree with keeping it simple!
a lottt of my friends are korean and I love celebrating new year with them, tteokguk is so nice especially in the winter months!! happy seollal fo you too!
Happy 설날!!
That looks like a delicious and comforting food item omg I want it so bad right now
Happy New Year! I used to think that new year makes more sense in spring, but I've been re-thinking that a bit. I like to think of it as a transition between the death of one year and the birth of another, and it does make sense for that to be in the midst of the stillest part of the year. Instead of spring being the beginning, it is instead the youthful, fast-moving period. January 1st doesn't seem great, but for me, today does. I'm through the darkest period of winter and seemingly through my personal darkest part of it (not that it was dark for me; this has actually been my most positive winter I can remember), and I feel like I'm starting the new year rather than just finishing off the last one or preparing for a new one. I hope you're feeling similarly positive!
haha in that case, happy 春節 to you! :)
Happy New Year!
Funny enough, when the Gregorian/Julian calendar was 10 months rather than 12, before the addition of July by Julius and August by Augustus, the calendar did start closer to the spring (mid march). So most calendars did function the way you're thinking - but you know, ego and bureaucracy.
I do love that happy new year 新年快樂 just bypasses the awkwardness :)
By the way, since I'm married, I'm handing out Tildes digital lucky pockets (利是) to anybody who is single. Reply here with 恭喜發財 (gung hei fat choi)
(Sorry poly folks I don't know what to do in your case. In fact, do you give me 利是 because the formular is giving them to people with yours minus one partner????)
恭喜發財! (but in Mandarin because I don't actually know the Canto pronunciation!)
Hope you're taking care of yourself chocobean! I'm in agreement of your interpretation of poly friends giving you 紅包 but I'm wondering if I as a single person would get that doubled or squared.
OH, Happy New Year! Red Pocket for you~ (image credit copilot + edits by me)
bonus (Cantonese) wishes generator for you to play with. There's a lot of Cantonese slangs though, hope the humour translates well