Gung Hay Fat Choy!!

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Gung Hay Fat Choy!!

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Happy Chinese New Year everybody!!! :party: :party: :D The year of the rat is now.
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The Whistle Collector wrote:Happy Chinese New Year everybody!!! :party: :party: :D The year of the rat is now.
Rat now? :wink:

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Wow, I thought that smell was just my dog. :party:

Tom

p.s. Why the heck does our New Year start in the middle of winter instead of the spring? That's really when things start over, isn't it?

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Bummer! I got confused and thought this was one of Wanderer's recipe threads. Gung Hay Fat Choy sounds kinda yummy to me :lol:
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'bout midway 'tween solstice and equinox ain't we?

I think the Chinese divide the year into 24 parts...
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The Whistle Collector wrote:Gung Hay Fat Choy!!

Happy Chinese New Year everybody!!! :party: :party: :D The year of the rat is now.
Hay is for horses.
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Yay! It's a big deal in this part of the world. My daughter's school held a Lunar New Year assembly today, and tomorrow I'm going to a won ton party hosted by a fellow choir member.

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...agus déanfaidh mé do mholadh ar an gcruit a Dhia, a Dhia liom!
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Actually, the right greeting would be

"xin nian kuai le" (mandarin, and yes i left out all the ´ ` stuff)

"Gung hay fat choy" is cantonese and roughly translates as "may prosperity be with you"

I still have to wait a few years for the snake to return.
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We had a huge New Years party here at our school, it was great.
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I write for a Vietnamese magazine. For them, Tet is the year of the mouse.
I have no idea why the difference with the Chinese. Well, I do know the differences with the Chinese but not between rat and mouse.

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Sandy McLeod wrote:I write for a Vietnamese magazine. For them, Tet is the year of the mouse.
I have no idea why the difference with the Chinese. Well, I do know the differences with the Chinese but not between rat and mouse.

Sandy
The mouse is smaller.

Actually, in Chinese, the word 鼠 may refer to either the rat or the mouse.
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