we are a multi cultural board.
as such i extend the compliments of the lunar new year to one and all.
to those that observe this i wish you prosperity for the year of the Goat.
DD, I understood it was the year of the sheep?
One of our local supermarkets is doing a PR stunt tomorrow with folk in Oriental clothes and a flock of lambs.
Are they wrong in an embarrassing fashion?
- Trout
OOOOOOHHHHHH YES
so much so its funny.in fact there may even be room for a few column inches ( fnar fnar)in some local newspaper by an esteemed and undervalued writer.
it is without doubt year of the goat. there being
NO SHEEP IN CHINA and little things like that.
in fact you highness.may i request.
if you chaps run anything on it in your newspaper could you send a link.it would raise a few smiles around here.
BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
I can feel a story about "red-faced supermarket bosses" coming on.
No sheep in China? News to me...
What do their teutchers have sex with?
- Trout
Doh ! i thought it was dragon, that was last year then?
Very happy new year to one & all...just think another chance at those resolutions.
sorry i meant
no sheep in china a couple of thousand years ago when they wrote the calendar.
sheep are from the western hemisphere and where introduced by traders.
Goat was the animal which shepards tended many moons ago.
and is rather tasty i might add.especailly curried.
I'm now given to understand the Chinese Year of the Goat, or Ram, can also be described as the Black Ram, or Black Sheep.
It's pretty tenuous but apparently you can get away with saying sheep.
Rats. Foiled again.
- The evil one
it's supposedly a ram. anyway, i didn't think the chinese new year started until feb...
don't wash your hair or brush the floor on that day i believe....
ok research complete
the ram is JAPANESE> not chinese.the lunar calendar jumps around a bit. but it is confirmed chinese is goat. japanese is ram.
chinese have goat because when they invented the calendar the cheep where still in the western hemisphere.
the japanese adapted the calendar and altered it slightly to suit there own golden week festival of holidays.
pretty much as the pagan did with the winter soltice and christmas i think.
and correct clean the house the day before and dont sweep away the good fortune and prosperity on the first and second day of the lunar new year.