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2:59 Maen! More from the Year of the Rat... must have been a very good year :)

Well, I'm glad I wasn't born in the year of the RAT!

9:16

But I was!
That snake makes me think that maybe... just maybe.... that i'd like one snake!

Well... NOW I understand where the Rats are.... The snake ate 'em!!!

7:17 Hi to all.

maen all! nice friendly looking guy...for a snake!

12:30 Someone tell me if I'm correct or not: The years listed are for babies born from one Chinese New Year to the next, so that a baby born in Jan or Feb or Early March of a year actually belong to the previous "calendar year" sign, for example, this Year of the Rat lists 1989, but if a More...

Many confuse their Chinese birth-year with their Gregorian birth-year. As the Chinese New Year starts in late January to mid-February, the Chinese year dates from 1 January until that day in the new Gregorian year remain unchanged from the previous Gregorian year. For example, the 1989 year of the More...

Great photo Kate fron Lane Cove!!

11:24, no possibilities. Hi all.

Kathy - thanks for the info! So I was right that the Chinese year isn't the same as the western calendar year (Gregorian). But how is the date of the Chinese New Year determined? (If it's too complicated, maybe I just need to go to Wikipedia or someplace like that ...)

Thanks Kate LC Sydney!

Chinese New Year can be as early as 21st January as it was in 1966 so my husband (born one week later) is, in fact, a horse not a snake. But my cousin's child of 1st Feb 1991 is actually a 1990 Horse because the Sheep/Goat year didn't start till later in February that year. By the time he was More...

Wikipedia gives the full range of dates plus the elements that go with each year. For example we have fire horses and water horses in our family. BTW Chinese New Year is never in March.

The Chinese Calendar is a lunisolar calendar which reflects both the cycles of the moon and the sun. This means that most Chinese years have 12 months of a lunar cycle but every so often a thirteen month has to be added to bring the Chinese New Year back into cycle with the sun. Because all the More...

11.29

Intereting friendly snake! Glad it is not a real one!