15/01/2017
Are you ready for Vietnamese lunar new year?
2017 in Vietnamese calendar will the year of Rooster.
If you ask why is that, here is our answer:
In Vietnam, the calendar was devised based on the regularly changing phases of the moon. Most Vietnamese, even city dwellers and overseas Vietnamese, have a lunar calendar in their homes to consult for festivals and auspicious dates. Because of the use of the lunar calendar, the actual days of the New Year vary from year to year.
The equinoxes and solstices that marked the beginning of the European seasons were taken as the midpoint by the Asian calendar with the result that each Vietnamese season begins six weeks earlier than its European counterpart.
Each year is "sponsored" sequentially by one of the twelve animals of the Vietnamese zodiac: the rat comes first, then the water buffalo, followed in order by the tiger, cat, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster,dog, and lastly, the pig. Of these animals one is mythical (the dragon) and four (rat, tiger, snake and monkey) are wild, shunning contact with humans. Seven are domesticated. Every twelve years, the sponsorship reverts to the same animal.
2017- The ROOSTER year represents a period of hard work and activity as the rooster is busy from morning to night. His comb is a mark of high intelligence and of a literary spirit. People born in the year of the c**k are considered profound thinkers. At the same time, he is a symbol of protection against fires. Pictures of a red c**k are hung in houses for that reason. People born in the c**k year earn their living from small businesses they practice with diligence like a "c**k scratching the soil for worms". Because ghosts disappear at sunrise it is believed that the c**k drives them away with his crowing. A white c**k is sometimes placed on the coffin of funeral processions to make the way free from demons. The c**k controls the hours between 5pm and 7pm.
Wish you all the best for 2017!
Say bye bye to 2016 - year of monkey and say hello to 2017!
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