Angry_Tsutomu
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I just recently saw a thread like this on the serebiiforums in rememberance that today is the beginning of the Chinese New Year, Year of the Ox. Although I don't contain a 2009 calendar as of yet that could've told me this before the day came. So today started the first day of the Chinese New Year, Year of the Ox in which yesteryear was the year of the rat. Anyone who had a birthday (as in was born) prior to this date in the calendar of the year 2009 is still considered a person born in the Year of the Rat and can be anywhere from 0, 1, 13, 25, 37, 49, 61 etc. years old. More information can be found here when you check out this link by clicking: http://www.chinapage.com/newyear.html#animal
Now I'm not sure about when this day started last year, but you could be sure to tell me from the fact that since the Chinese Year is based on the lunisolar calendar of some sort in which it'll take the moon 27.3 days to go around the Earth once, but 29.5 days to appear from its Full Moon position to its next Full Moon position, that with 12 months in the solar year, that it takes the moon 354 days total to complete 1 full lunar year cycle around the whole entire Earth while the Earth still has to orbit the sun for another 11.2422 days, merely slightly less than 11.25 more days to orbit the sun some more to complete its solar year cycle, thus inserting the leap year with a leap day or intercalary day in February almost every 4 years. So depending on which shape the moon is toward the first few weeks of the year, at the very beginning of it, the day that a Chinese New Year can begin can vary. I don't know what Moon this is as I got my Starry Night Program to check for it. I assume it's a New Moon tonight, but I'm not sure.
Edit: I just checked my Starry Night Program, and I'm pretty sure that the moon is a New Moon tonight, thus the reason why we can't see it in the sky lit up somehow tonight. Starting tomorrow it'll be a waxing crescent.
This Chinese New Year stuff is interesting and the facts about where it came from and how long a Chinese Year is, different from the solar or lunar year. So Happy Chinese New Year to everyone. And to insert the random phrase in here that's from some Cantonese language or something, knock yourselves out as I represent this phrase I learned from my English Class today. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Edit: Also if this thread doesn't belong here, and since I didn't know where else it'll go, feel free to move it.
Now I'm not sure about when this day started last year, but you could be sure to tell me from the fact that since the Chinese Year is based on the lunisolar calendar of some sort in which it'll take the moon 27.3 days to go around the Earth once, but 29.5 days to appear from its Full Moon position to its next Full Moon position, that with 12 months in the solar year, that it takes the moon 354 days total to complete 1 full lunar year cycle around the whole entire Earth while the Earth still has to orbit the sun for another 11.2422 days, merely slightly less than 11.25 more days to orbit the sun some more to complete its solar year cycle, thus inserting the leap year with a leap day or intercalary day in February almost every 4 years. So depending on which shape the moon is toward the first few weeks of the year, at the very beginning of it, the day that a Chinese New Year can begin can vary. I don't know what Moon this is as I got my Starry Night Program to check for it. I assume it's a New Moon tonight, but I'm not sure.
Edit: I just checked my Starry Night Program, and I'm pretty sure that the moon is a New Moon tonight, thus the reason why we can't see it in the sky lit up somehow tonight. Starting tomorrow it'll be a waxing crescent.
This Chinese New Year stuff is interesting and the facts about where it came from and how long a Chinese Year is, different from the solar or lunar year. So Happy Chinese New Year to everyone. And to insert the random phrase in here that's from some Cantonese language or something, knock yourselves out as I represent this phrase I learned from my English Class today. Gung Hay Fat Choy!
Edit: Also if this thread doesn't belong here, and since I didn't know where else it'll go, feel free to move it.
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