Yay
Happy Chinese New Year! :)
Year of the boar! :D
Even though it's on Sunday
I'm really bored though.
Tehehe.


新年好!
这是公猪的年
....
The End.

And no one-day-only VMK pin?

whoah how did you do that chinese characters?

Heh, I did the Chinese New Year with my class at the Festival of the Nations ^.^

Gung Hay Fat Choy! (<----- That is how you say it in Chinease)

Gung Hay Fat Choy!!

Ataarii, I am not sure, because in my class, we have someone who lived in China. He said it is
Gun (Goon) Si (See) Fa (fah) Si (sigh)

Haha, I always say "Kung hee fat choy". Dim Sum on Sunday.
Can't wait, gonna eat a lot =P.

I just learned this from my Mandarin class today. Gong Xi Fa Cai, Xin Nian Kuai Le !

Bonne Année à Tous !

Gong xi gong xi!:D

Im a monkey >_< Woooo! Go me!

Jeena
xxxxxx

Happy Chinese New Year Everyone! I found a story about how the zodiac signs or animal things were made. :D

There are several legends about how the animals were chosen for the Chinese zodiac. This is one of them. The Jade Emperor is the name of the Emperor of Heaven.
Long ago, in China, the Jade Emperor decided there should be a way of measuring time. On his birthday he told the animals that there was to be a swimming race. The first twelve animals across the fast flowing river would be the winners and they would each have a year of the zodiac named after them.
All the animals lined up along the river bank. The rat and the cat, who were good friends, were worried because they were poor swimmers. Being clever they asked the strong ox if he would carry them across the river.
'Of course' said the kind ox. 'Just climb on my back and I will take you across.'
The rat and the cat quickly jumped up and were very excited when the ox soon took the lead in the race. They had almost reached the other bank when the rat pushed the cat into the river leaving him to struggle in the water. Then just before the ox was about to win the race the rat leapt on his head and on to the bank to finish first.
'Well done,' said the Jade Emperor to the proud rat. 'The first year of the zodiac will be named after you.'
The poor ox had been tricked into second place and the second year of the zodiac was named after him.
Shortly after the exhausted tiger clawed his way to the river bank to claim third place. Swimming across the river had been an enormous struggle for him against the strong currents. The Emperor was so delighted with his efforts that he named the third year after him.
Next to arrive was the rabbit, who hadn't swum across at all. He hopped across on some stepping stones and then found a floating log which carried him to the shore.
'I shall be very happy to call the fourth year after you,' the surprised Jade Emperor explained.
Just then a kind dragon swooped down to take fifth place.
'Why didn’t you win the race, as you can fly as well as swim?' the Jade Emperor asked.
'I was held up because some people and animals needed water to drink. I needed to make some rain,' the dragon explained. 'Then when I was nearly here I saw a poor little rabbit on a log in the water and I blew a puff of wind so that the log would float to the river bank.'
Well that was very kind of you and now you are here you will have the fifth year of the zodiac named after you.'
The next thing the Jade Emperor heard was the sound of the horse’s hooves. Just as he was thinking the horse would be the next animal to arrive, a sneaky snake wriggled out from around one of the horse’s hooves. The horse was so surprised that he jumped backwards giving the snake a chance to take the sixth place in the race. The poor horse had to be satisfied with seventh place.
Not long afterwards a raft arrived carrying the goat, the monkey and the rooster. They explained to the Emperor how they had shared the raft that the rooster had found. The goat and monkey had cleared weeds and pushed the raft to the shore. The Emperor was very pleased that the animals had worked together. He said the goat would be the eighth zodiac animal, the monkey the ninth and the rooster the tenth.
The next animal to finish was the dog.
'Why are you so late when you are one of the best swimmers?' asked the Jade Emperor.
'The water in the river was so clean that I had to have a bath on the way,' explained the dog.
His reward was to have the eleventh year named after him.
Now there was one place left in the zodiac and the Emperor wondered when the last winner would come. He had nearly given up when he heard a grunt from the boar.
'You took a long time to cross the river,' said the Emperor to the boar.
'I was hungry and stopped to eat,' explained the boar. 'After the meal I felt so tired that I fell asleep.'
'You have still done well,' said the Jade Emperor. 'The last year of the zodiac will be named after you.'
As for the cat who had been pushed into the water by the rat, he finally crawled out of the water but was too late to have a year named after him. He felt very cross with the rat and since then cats have never been friends with rats.
From that day to this the Chinese Zodiac has followed this cycle of years named after these twelve animals.

Poor Kitty.... :(

:tink:AwsomeAdrienne:tink:

whoah how did you do that chinese characters?
Look through your Character Map. Start-->All Programs --> Accessories --> Character Map. Then just look through everything.

Happy Chinese New Year!

K its year of the pig...

whoah how did you do that chinese characters?

I downloaded NJ Star, which is like Chinese Word.
Or you can go to http://http://babelfish.altavista.com/
type in something,
and select English-Chinese Simp
and just copy, paste the characters :)

Or as they say in Mandiran, Gong Xi Fa Chai!
Happy Chinese New Year, All! It's the year of the pig!
How do you celebrate the Chinese New Year? Since I'm not Chinese, I don't celebrate it; but I'd love to hear any traditions anyone else has.
Gong Hey Fat Choy!
:mickbar:DisneyRoxie

Gong Hey Fat Choy to you too.
I have been thinking about learning Chinese.

Happy Year of the Pig!! I forgot what I am, lol.

-blueotter

I always say Kung Hee Fat Choy haha. I guess you can pronounce the 'hee' as 'xi'. Year of the Boar, woohoo.
It's not my year though, I'm a Sheep -_-.

I always say Kung Hee Fat Choy haha. I guess you can pronounce the 'hee' as 'xi'. Year of the Boar, woohoo.
It's not my year though, I'm a Sheep -_-.
I've found many different spellings for "Happy New Year". I just used this one.
:mickbar:DisneyRoxie

Yay! It's my year!

Yay! It's my year!
Happy year! Have a Chinese New Year 2007 Pin!

http://www.bogursky.com/VMK/yearoftheboar.jpg

Or as they say in Mandiran, Gong Xi Fa Chai!
Happy Chinese New Year, All! It's the year of the pig!
How do you celebrate the Chinese New Year? Since I'm not Chinese, I don't celebrate it; but I'd love to hear any traditions anyone else has.
Gong Hey Fat Choy!
:mickbar:DisneyRoxie

Traditions? :)
Every new year parents give their kids money in a small red envelope. (Usually $50 or $100)
And there's parades and the dragon dance.
Oh, and those fireworks things.
And a lot more, but I'm too lazy to type them :P

Traditions? :)
Every new year parents give their kids money in a small red envelope. (Usually $50 or $100)
And there's parades and the dragon dance.
Oh, and those fireworks things.
And a lot more, but I'm too lazy to type them :P

Really? I get like.. €2 per envelope T_T.
I love the Dragon-thing, it's cute haha. Can't forget 'Dim Sum', I just love to eat. Heh.

lol :] Neoteny, is that pin real? Can't find it on VMK, lol.

lol :] Neoteny, is that pin real? Can't find it on VMK, lol.
It's very rare. So rare that it doesn't even exist!

Haha, Chinese New Year is the best holiday
My family always goes to the big cities to see the Lion Dances
This year we went.. Hah its awesome and i got awsome pics cause i was right in front.. Always good food too.. and the money :P
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That's supposed to be a lion? I'd always thought those were dragons.

Haha, Chinese New Year is the best holiday
My family always goes to the big cities to see the Lion Dances
This year we went.. Hah its awesome and i got awsome pics cause i was right in front.. Always good food too.. and the money :P
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Ah I remember for one Chinese New Year, I acutally traveled to China and got to see amazing professionals do the lion dance, and it was simply stunning. I love watching it. My red packets contained, say $20, but I got 2 so it's okay. So far, they have been spent on track shoes for the upcoming season.

LOL

Anyway, someone asked about traditions, as a matter of fact, one of the biggest I've seen is the exchanging of the tangerines, or oranges. You place one in each palm of your hands, and push together, while saying "Gung Xi Fa Chai!" It's to symbolize good luck. Then you pass on the oranges. It seems simple, but it's really cool.

-coolgogogirl

The chinese pronouns it like this : Gong Xi Fa Cai

and there's a movie how those animals bacame the zodiac, it's awesome xD and yes Neoteny that's a lion Lol

~me~

It's very rare. So rare that it doesn't even exist!

-.-


(too short )

That's supposed to be a lion? I'd always thought those were dragons.

They are... I think...

Yup, it's a lion.

I saw a movie ( which is a cartoon xD) that tells you all about chinese new year. They're wearing lion because lion is the one who protects them from the dragon (long time ago) you'll understand more if you check in the wiki though :D

xD

~me~

True it's a lion...the dragon is one of the Zoidiac animals I believe...I remember when I was like really little I went on a flight to China and the lady on the plane gave me this picture book about the Zodiac animals and how they came to be. Was very interesting, but then she came around with chocolate pudding and I was distracted.

-coolgogogirl

Even though it's a bit late, Gung Hay Fat Choy or as I like to say it, Chuc Mung Nam Moi :)
I kept getting $2 bills this year, but apparently that's good luck.
The festival this year was AWESOME.
I hope you all had a great new years.

That's supposed to be a lion? I'd always thought those were dragons.
lol, same here!

:wave2: Maybe they should of released a pin? :D

~lil

Eh???
I always thought it was a dragon.
-.-