Lexx Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Happy New Year Ho! We'll have to arrange a North East meet at some point soon I was born year of the Monkey - Quite apt for someone from Hartlepool I think Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixy Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTheForce Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 So call me stupid but I've always wondered why is there a Chinese New Year but not, say, a Japanese New Year? I could understand if it was maybe the Buddhist New Year or some kind of religious annual event but why would one country do this and another would not? What do they do in Beijing on Dec 31st, just stay at home?! I probably should understand it better after my years training in martial arts but no-ones ever mentioned it! Oh and I can swear quite colourfully/badly in Mandarin thanks to Firefly (Best show ever and my Avatar) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Maybe they celebrate Western New Year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Gung Hei fat choi, sun leen fai lock (Yup, chinese myself too) Think thats cheating, we had to google it Cheeky git, I didn't! 60%+ of my clients are Chinese so you pick these things up. I can speak it, I just cant spell it 我是聰明的 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cara Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 我是聰明的 Now that's just asking for a google search to translate... which I have... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilTheForce Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Is there a difference when writing between Mandarin and Cantonese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Chinese has regional dialects, one of which is Mandaarin. This is used by the majority of the population so is adopted as the national language. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wanta350 Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 So call me stupid but I've always wondered why is there a Chinese New Year but not, say, a Japanese New Year? I could understand if it was maybe the Buddhist New Year or some kind of religious annual event but why would one country do this and another would not? What do they do in Beijing on Dec 31st, just stay at home?! I probably should understand it better after my years training in martial arts but no-ones ever mentioned it! Oh and I can swear quite colourfully/badly in Mandarin thanks to Firefly (Best show ever and my Avatar) It's to do with the way the Chinese calculates the annual calender, they call it the moon calender, so because they adhere to a different format of dates, hence it's new years like two days ago..... Japanese don't use this method....so no Japanese new year.... I think the mexicans may have also a different way of calculating days...the old aztecs.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilsheepshagga_turbo Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 i think for say december 31st people in china celebrate... well the youth do... the elderly folk generally try to stick to the lunar calendar.. but its all a bit of a con/faf as every other day of the year they just use the western calendar... not really complaining though.. think i was given about 400 quid... put a tenner in the roulette machine (my families tradition) and came away with an extra 300 quid so all in all a good day.. my best mate actually does the lion dance (he' the head of the red one..hsi arse is his brother in law.. hahaha).. its his dad that runs the chollerford gym.. they did like a 10 minute show at aspers and got paid 3 grand for it -ho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilsheepshagga_turbo Posted January 27, 2009 Author Share Posted January 27, 2009 Is there a difference when writing between Mandarin and Cantonese? no there's no difference... they write chinese.... just words are said differently as martin says regional dialects.. i mean put it simply.. us northerners dont really understand scousers.. so imagine the size difference between china and england.. thats why the variation in languages... -ho Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digsy Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 Is there a difference when writing between Mandarin and Cantonese? no there's no difference... they write chinese.... just words are said differently as martin says regional dialects.. i mean put it simply.. us northerners dont really understand scousers.. so imagine the size difference between china and england.. thats why the variation in languages... -ho Eh, la? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martinmac Posted January 27, 2009 Share Posted January 27, 2009 :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Personally I celebrate both. And most Hong Kong people celebrate both too, as well as the UK born ones Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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