Sunday, February 14, 2010

Happy Chinese New Year: This "Year of the Tiger" has to be better than this past year of "Tiger Woods"

I wanna give a huge shout out to my Chinese peeps here in Cerritos has they celebrate "Chinese New Year" today. 

2010 is the Year of the Tiger,  which is also known by its formal name of Geng Yin.

Chinese calendar has been in continuous use for centuries. It predates the International Calendar (based on the Gregorian Calendar) in use at the present, which goes back only some 430 years. Basically, a calendar is a system we use to measures the passage of time, from short durations of minutes and hours, to intervals of time measured in days, months, years and centuries. These are fundamentally based on the astronomical observations of the movement of the Sun, Moon and stars.

Days are measured by the duration of time of one self rotation of the earth. Months are measured by the duration of time of rotation of the moon around the earth. Years are measured by the duration of time it takes for the earth to rotate around the Sun.
2010 is Year 4707 in the Chinese Calendar

So, as we put the "Year of Tiger Woods 2009" behind us, its time to celebrate the real "Year of the Tiger" for the next many moons.

So start passing out them "red envelopes" and head over to Panda Inn in La Palma, and party like it's 4707!

Drop me a note to RREconomy@aol.com, or click the headline from this Post and tell me what you think!

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