Welcoming the Year of the Ox in Tokyo
December 27th, 2008 by James
Japan prepares to welcome the Ox, which will be the Chinese zodiac animal of 2009:
More details and a stupid pun can be found at Reuters.
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I find it strange that although the japanese no longer celebrate lunar new year they still follow the zodiac
The Chinese zodiac and the lunar calendar are not based on the same systems. The Chinese zodiac signs are based on an agricultural solar calendar and overlap with the lunar calendar by two weeks.
Westerners no longer observe the Babylonian system of time, but we’ve adapted the Astrological signs to the Gregorian calendar.
Why didn’t they just use a rat and an ox….?
And that calf is unfortunately gonna be on a plate in several pieces in a couple of months…
Wow, if they couldn’t track down those oh-so-rare rat and oxen, why even bother with the so called “ceremony”?