OT: Happy Lunar New Year
Today is Lunar New Year's Eve and tomorrow (Feb 1) will be the first day of the Year of the Tiger. A big happy Lunar New Year to MGoFans of East Asian descent!
What will you be eating tonight? My household will have a feast with Boston flavors: Lobster and sausage fried sticky rice, slow braised pork, pan fried grey sole, some sort of shellfish, some sort of beef (haven't decided either yet), and homemade dumplings to wrap up the day [pun intended]. And the whole family will be wearing something red.
(Note - I haven't yet met anyone who knows how the lunar calendar works, but somehow calculating the date of the Lunar New Year has some remarkable similarity that of to date of Easter.)
January 31st, 2022 at 9:06 AM ^
I would like to come over for dinner
January 31st, 2022 at 9:10 AM ^
Easter is considered a Lunar Holiday..... it falls on the sunday following the first full moon after the spring equinox.
I was told this by an Army Chaplin about 30 years ago. He said its the 'most mobile' holiday on the calendar.
I never looked it up to verify, figured if anyone should know, he should.
Happy Lunar New Year..... we will probably throw a couple steaks from XM farms on the grill, my taste buds have started coming back around....
January 31st, 2022 at 9:30 AM ^
Ramadan moves around a lot more, but it's a month so maybe it didn't count to the Chaplain.
January 31st, 2022 at 9:36 AM ^
I didn't know that. He was a Christian chaplain (i'm thinking Protestant or may be Methodist) so he was likely referring to Christian Holidays.
January 31st, 2022 at 10:19 AM ^
If you look at all the holidays in the Old Testament, they are lunar based. The Christian holiday of Easter is loosely connected to Passover on the calendar, so they are always near each other.
January 31st, 2022 at 12:05 PM ^
The Hebrews will adjust their calendars (add a month every so many years) so that the Fall Feasts always occur in the fall. They use the sighting of a new moon after the fall equinox to keep things aligned in their lunar calendar. In doing so, the date for a feast changes, but not the season.
The Muslims don't adjust their calendars while following the moon cycles, which is why Ramadan moves into different seasons.
January 31st, 2022 at 11:38 AM ^
Military Chaplains are some of the greatest humans on Earth. They go walk the walk and talk the talk in some pretty horrible areas regardlesss of which religion they believe in.
January 31st, 2022 at 9:36 AM ^
Year of the Tiger -- that sounds promising. And your dinner sounds delicious.
January 31st, 2022 at 9:40 AM ^
No happy Lunar New Years for those of us not of East Asian descent?? /s
I love America, we get to celebrate virtually every holiday of any culture in the world and not feel the slightest amount of guilt that we do. And we get all the foods too!
January 31st, 2022 at 10:12 AM ^
User name fits! Not in a bad way!
January 31st, 2022 at 9:45 AM ^
My wife is from China so it's a big day in our household. We had a big dinner with a few other friends and couples yesterday.
January 31st, 2022 at 9:46 AM ^
Is this the one where we ritualistically drink psilocybin libation while dancing naked around a May Pole?
January 31st, 2022 at 10:02 AM ^
We haven't.... but I'm pretty sure we're going to now.... thanks for the idea!
January 31st, 2022 at 10:32 AM ^
That sounds fun! I can't think of any way for this to be scary.
January 31st, 2022 at 9:57 AM ^
Leftovers!
Does this mean that the Tigers win the World Series? Or, the Tigers make it back to the College Football Playoffs? So many Tigers to choose from...
January 31st, 2022 at 10:02 AM ^
Bengals are tigers...... I know who I'm betting on!
January 31st, 2022 at 10:08 AM ^
xīn nián kuài lè
January 31st, 2022 at 11:15 AM ^
what a coincidence, i was just saying that to a buddy of mine...
January 31st, 2022 at 11:12 AM ^
Chúc Mừng Năm Mới
January 31st, 2022 at 11:16 AM ^
hillbilly, in case you missed it, i suggest you check out the 'bourbon' thread from last night.
January 31st, 2022 at 12:04 PM ^
Thanks, XM. I did just now and put in about 10 cents worth of opinion. Was too preoccupied with celebrating the lunar new year with the family. Always good eats and company.
January 31st, 2022 at 11:40 AM ^
Beat me to it MgoHillbilly. Chuc mung nam moi to you too (I'm too lazy to do the diacritical marks).
January 31st, 2022 at 12:07 PM ^
No worries as they're lost on me anyway. I'm always getting roasted for trying to speak it. It's as if the family is trying to discourage me from trying so I'll never be able to really know what they're saying around the table.
January 31st, 2022 at 12:40 PM ^
just know that they are planning your demise.
January 31st, 2022 at 12:54 PM ^
Likely. Such conversations are usually followed by my wife asking if I've paid my quarterly life insurance premium.
As a side note, I hear Robert Shaw in Jaws whenever I see that word.
"You see this? Now I can't extend that, do you know why? Get to the semi-final, celebrating my third wife's demise, big Chinese fella, he pulled me right over"
January 31st, 2022 at 11:12 AM ^
Gung Hay Fat Choy, peeps!
Probably not doing anything too extravagant since I don't have any family nearby. I have a fish and ginger noodle recipe I've been honing, so I might bust that out since noodles are a traditional CNY dish.
One other thing I might do to celebrate is sneak into the zoo to steal one of their tigers and set it loose in the Woody Hayes building.
January 31st, 2022 at 11:19 AM ^
Let’s get loony!
Said the lunar lunatic…
January 31st, 2022 at 7:08 PM ^
We made spring rolls! Family recipe turned out great.
February 1st, 2022 at 10:29 AM ^
It’s ok to wear red today. Also red wing red is always ok. But fuck Ohio state.