It's interesting to read one of my friends' fb statuses on chinese new year...do we say Happy Chinese New Year or Happy Lunar New Year? Is it sheep or goat? A few wrote "ram" (male sheep).
It's not only the Chinese having this new year celebration..friends in Vietnam (who do not consider themselves Chinese) are also busy celebrating.For them, it's the lunar new year.
For Europeans, sheep makes more sense than goat so according to my BBC correspondent friend (now based in Bangkok) for consistency purpose, BBC has decided to use sheep instead of goat so if you see sheep images, itu European version.Chinese version is kambing gurun.
Chew invited over but I could not find his email which carried his home add and I don't have his tel no.There goes one free lunch.Haha.
Watch for CNY news later.
It's not only the Chinese having this new year celebration..friends in Vietnam (who do not consider themselves Chinese) are also busy celebrating.For them, it's the lunar new year.
For Europeans, sheep makes more sense than goat so according to my BBC correspondent friend (now based in Bangkok) for consistency purpose, BBC has decided to use sheep instead of goat so if you see sheep images, itu European version.Chinese version is kambing gurun.
Chew invited over but I could not find his email which carried his home add and I don't have his tel no.There goes one free lunch.Haha.
Watch for CNY news later.
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