Thing is, @Singing Gardener that the Jewish NY is also governed by moon phases and this year it's on the new moon in September so I don't think Lunar NY is accurate.
Maybe Taoist NY would be better as that includes the Vietnamese and Koreans. Either way, it's a good excuse for a feast and is yet another holiday originally designed to give farmers and agricultural workers a winter holiday - like the old 12 days of Christmas or Saturnalia in Europe.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Didn't know that @Obelixx! Korea seems to have an exeptionally large number of holidays throughout the year including buddhist, national and Christian. They do work long hours the rest of the time though.
And while we're being curmudgeonly, how come we don't have a special meal for St George's day - or should I be eating roast beef and the trimmings on that day?
I think Taoism predates Buddha and certainly Christianity and Islam @Singing Gardener so the other holidays are add-ons.
The Irish, Welsh and Scots are far more keen to celebrate their patron saints than the English but then a lot of English don't do saints which tend to be an RC and C of 2 domain. I know of at least one St George's society which celebrates on April the whatever but that's up in Leicestershire so won't be pie, mash and liquor @B3 - bit parochial Cockney that!
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
And while we're being curmudgeonly, how come we don't have a special meal for St George's day - or should I be eating roast beef and the trimmings on that day?
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Maybe Taoist NY would be better as that includes the Vietnamese and Koreans. Either way, it's a good excuse for a feast and is yet another holiday originally designed to give farmers and agricultural workers a winter holiday - like the old 12 days of Christmas or Saturnalia in Europe.
And while we're being curmudgeonly, how come we don't have a special meal for St George's day - or should I be eating roast beef and the trimmings on that day?
The Irish, Welsh and Scots are far more keen to celebrate their patron saints than the English but then a lot of English don't do saints which tend to be an RC and C of 2 domain. I know of at least one St George's society which celebrates on April the whatever but that's up in Leicestershire so won't be pie, mash and liquor @B3 - bit parochial Cockney that!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.