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Originally Posted by Ck
Why do the Chinese have a different New Year to the rest of us?  |
Because our calendar has Western/Christian origins and the Chinese have had their own calendar for thousands of years, before our calendar (the Gregorian and before that the Julian) was even invented. They only adopted ours as their official calendar in the 1940s but still use their own one to determine certain events, the most important of which is the new year.
There are other types of calendar from other cultures as well, e.g. the Jewish and Islamic calendars, that are used alongside the Gregorian one in many countries around the world, and they also have their own new years. The Islamic one gets earlier every year (this year Jan 10 and Dec 29) and the Jewish one happens in September or October.
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