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Using Chinese astrology for travel guidance

  RootOfAllLight Lunar New Year 2024 has just ended, landing us in the year of the Dragon, and it got me to thinking: there´s quite a bit out there on where/how to travel according to Western star signs, aligning destinations with your astrological characteristics, but you don´t hear much of anything on the subject when it comes to Chinese astrology. As someone who´s studied Chinese and Sinic culture, I looked into it a bit, and here´s what I came up with, with a couple of destination…

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How they celebrate New Year's in China

  You might wonder why this is even a question. But in fact, the Chinese-speaking world has its own big Lunar New Year celebration (in 2021, it's 12 February), and so while much of the rest of the planet makes a big deal out of New Year's Eve tonight, for many of the nearly 1½ billion inhabitants of this vast country, it simply isn't all that much of a thing. There are of course exceptions, and that's what I'm here to talk about. read post

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  • Meryl Pearlstein December 11, 2009 at 2:51am
    Anyone know where I can learn Mandarin in NYC?
  • David Paul Appell December 10, 2009 at 2:12am
    欢迎，余先生！
  • José Balido October 5, 2009 at 8:19pm
    真有意思！谢谢！I don't usually like to look at the animals I'm going to eat in their pre-cooked stage, but I have to confess this clip made me hungry!
  • Bernard Cleary October 5, 2009 at 8:01pm
    This clip doesn't belong under songs, so I'm putting it here. This is the opening scene of the Ang Lee film "Eat Drink Man Woman," a wonderful movie I highly recommend. If you love Chinese food, you'll love this film. The actor doing the cooking is Lang Hsiung, a regular in Ang Lee's Chinese language films who is sadly no longer with us.

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  • José Balido September 22, 2009 at 12:24am
    Welcome, Skip!
  • Bernard Cleary September 2, 2009 at 11:48pm
    Well, I'll start a discussion thread to post Mandarin songs I like. Maybe others will, too.
  • José Balido August 28, 2009 at 10:55pm
    The Discussion module certainly makes it easier to stay on topic; whether or not a thread is created in the way that you're thinking, I'm not sure. I will look into it!
  • Bernard Cleary August 27, 2009 at 11:47pm
    Re: Buddha riddle: Yes, I knew it sounded strange. Actually, that line is the key to the whole thing. Still not entirely satisfied, but your rendition definitely works better than mine!
    BTW, would the creation of threads be facilitated by use of the "start a discussion" module that appears above? It only just occurred to me now!
  • José Balido August 27, 2009 at 11:39pm
    Re: the Buddha riddle, I agree, Bernie, it should be "the past, the present and the future." I also think "They can only have four times" sounds a wee bit off, so how about "It's only possible four times?"

    And you thought translating legal documents was hard!
  • Bernard Cleary August 27, 2009 at 11:38pm
    Ah, OK, I didn't know. Now I know! So here's the other one (S.H.E.'s cover:)
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