From memory, although my memory may be faulty, there are some slight differences between the animals assigned in the Chinese calendars and the animals assigned in the Vietnamese calendar.

in the Vietnamese sequence, it is goat. while most chinese sources indicate sheep (occasionally they say ram, but sheep is most common)

at least thats what i seem to remember. But then three's been so many fire crackers going off over the three days of tet, that something might have rattled loose in my memory.

Andrew

Michael Everson wrote:
At 10:19 -0800 2003-02-01, Eric Muller wrote:

Michael Everson wrote:

Happy New Year of the Yáng to everybody! (I can't work out whether it's the Year of the Sheep, the Goat, or the Ram.)

Ram.

europe.cnn.com (which I was looking at for other, sadder reasons), says Goat. My local Superquinn's (large grocery chain) has had signs on all the Chinese food for weeks which says Ram. My Chinese dictionary says Sheep.



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