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Happy Chinese New Year -- the Year of the Horse

LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
edited 2014-01-31 01:53 in General Discussion
Well, it is officially the day of the eve of Chinese New Year here. Everyone has been cleaning house, shopping up and in another 18 hours or so, the whole of Taiwan will pretty much shut down for about 5 days.

Gong Xi Fa Tsai ( Everybody get rich).

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  • davejamesdavejames Posts: 4,047
    edited 2014-01-29 09:41
    Hey Loop - what type of tasty treats are common for the celebration?
  • mindrobotsmindrobots Posts: 6,506
    edited 2014-01-29 09:54
    Party like it's 4712!!! Happy New Year!!!!

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  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-01-29 18:56
    davejames wrote: »
    Hey Loop - what type of tasty treats are common for the celebration?

    Horse meat is NOT on the menu. To tell you the truth, I have no idea what we will have this evening. I am going to a restaurant with a family that I have spent many Chinese New Year's eves with. Menu is likely to be very tradition bound to what is auspicious for the new year with a lot of items that symbolize prosperity and good fortune. If you really want five star dinning, any Chinese holiday is likely to restrict your choices to the traditional. Weddings tend to be very traditional menus as well, unless the wedding is between a couple of very rich families.

    Last time we ate out in a non-holiday venue, it was Ruth Chris's Steak House... good, but not exactly Chinese.
  • MacTuxLinMacTuxLin Posts: 821
    edited 2014-01-30 03:41
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  • John A. ZoidbergJohn A. Zoidberg Posts: 514
    edited 2014-01-30 04:08
    Happy CNY too! Doing some last minute housework and shopping. Quite tiring, but it's normal every year! :)
  • Tracy AllenTracy Allen Posts: 6,664
    edited 2014-01-30 08:30
    Back to you too Loopy. Is the greeting the same in all Chinese dialects? Say, I want to send wishes to my friends in Shanghai.
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-01-30 10:12
    Hi,
    I used the Mandarin... good to go for Shanghai, Singapore, and Beijing. But this might be spot on. Gōng Xǐ Fā C
  • TymkrsTymkrs Posts: 539
    edited 2014-01-30 17:20
    Wan4 shi4 ru2 yi4! (May everything go according to your desires)

    :) Happy Chinese New Year!!
  • LoopyBytelooseLoopyByteloose Posts: 12,537
    edited 2014-01-31 01:53
    Hmmm... we seem to be entering the world of Chinese New Year couplets. There are a lot of them.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Couplet_%28Chinese_poetry%29

    Meanwhile, I opened my Taipei Times today and a banner across the top says.

    ' Kung Hsi Fa Tsai', not 'Gong Xi Fa Cai'

    Why so? Well the Xi and the Cai clearing indicate the Mainland Chinese Roman Pinyin. And historically, it was created based on the phonology of the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, other alphabetical phonologies generallly originated out of American and English use of the alphabet.

    This stuff seems to never get settled. Near my house, I can see 3 different spellings for Ching Dao on the street signs at three consecutive corners. When in doubt you the Chinese characters and just select either the Simplified or Traditional. They transcend the 6 or so regional dialects of Chinese pronunciation.

    Simply put, when you get 1.2 billion people using the same language.. standardization is not easy to hold together.
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