Feb 12 21021 - There's One Chinese New Year's Joke
It is Chinese New Year. How is the date determined? First new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February I know so little about how it works. Here's an impact - figuring out your Chinese birth-year:
"Many people inaccurately calculate their Chinese birth-year by converting it from their Gregorian birth-year. As the Chinese New Year starts in late January to mid-February, the previous Chinese year dates through 1 January until that day in the new Gregorian year, remaining unchanged from the previous Gregorian year. For example, the 2018 year of the Dog began on 16 February 2018. The year 2018 is generally aligned with the year of the Dog. However, the 2017 year of the Rooster officially ended on 15 February 2018. This means that anyone born from 28 January 2017 to 15 February 2018 was actually born in the year of the Rooster rather than the year of the Dog. Many online Chinese Sign calculators do not account for the non-alignment of the two calendars, using Gregorian-calendar years rather than official Chinese New Year dates."
There are lots of charts in the Wikipedia entry as the Chinese calendar is not continuous but cyclical. That just seems so strange to me now that we've become an arithmetic-based, linear society.
The headline promises easy but funny Chinese New Year Jokes 2021 For Everyone. But there aren't many jokes. Here's one:
If you celebrated Chinese New Year in America do you celebrated American Years in China?
Summer images are so full of colour compared to our current landscape. The statue is in the Powell Garden in Kansas City.
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