week's theme -- words about pig.
This is the Chinese year of pig. Februray 18 is the last day of lunar
2006 in China. Starting from the next day, a year of pig started.
Although Chinese Web news has bogged against the saying of a year of
"gold pig" so that not so many Chinese choose to deliver babies in
this blissful year. A guy named Jeff Eertmoed who to some extend
understands Korean culture sent a feedback to AWAD talking that the
year of the pig is a special "year of the golden pig" in Korea.
Meanwhile, lots of Koreans are trying to conceive children in Korea
this year
Another guy named Thao Tran argues that "As [so] many Asian countries
aside from China follow the lunar calendar, I have found it more
appropriate to call it Lunar New Year as opposed to 'Chinese' New
Year. The Chinese have invented a lot of things, as it did its
lunisolar calendar, but we don't attribute a title of origin to the
majority of those inventions. As an honorary pig, I felt compelled to
send this comment; otherwise, I absolutely adore this week's theme!
Happy Lunar New Year!"
>From the name spelling, I can tell Thao Tran must be from Vietnam.
Either he or she is a Vietnam Chinese or a pure Vietnamese, I think
s/he wants to share a part of the glory that Chinese culture has
infused to the Oriental world throughout its 2000-year of feudalism
history.
