From: Andrew Cunningham (andrewc@mail.vicnet.net.au)
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 01:05:56 EST
From memory, although my memory may be faulty, there are some slight
differences between the animals assigned in the Chinese calendars and
the animals assigned in the Vietnamese calendar.
in the Vietnamese sequence, it is goat. while most chinese sources
indicate sheep (occasionally they say ram, but sheep is most common)
at least thats what i seem to remember. But then three's been so many
fire crackers going off over the three days of tet, that something might
have rattled loose in my memory.
Andrew
Michael Everson wrote:
> At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote:
>
>> Michael Everson wrote:
>>
>>> Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether
>>> it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)
>>
>>
>> Ram.
>
>
> europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons), says
> Goat. My local Superquinn's (large grocery chain) has had signs on all
> the Chinese food for weeks which says Ram. My Chinese dictionary says
> Sheep.
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