Thursday, February 07, 2008

Happy Lunar New Year!

某年的大年初一夜晚, 擠進新宿一家小小的燒烤店, 店內只能容納十人八人.
明顯不過的遊客Look, 再加上燒烤店的氣氛以及習慣, 不免會跟店主以及鄰座談上一兩句.
談話間說起新年, 大家舉杯, 小心地說了句"Happy New Year!", 因我知道若不慎說了句"Happy Chinese New Year!"的話, 會有可能被鄰座的韓國人殺了, 因為這日子都是韓國人的新年呀!
大部分人都習慣了這節日為Chinese New Year. 中國人人多勢眾, 所以在老外眼中很自然便成了"我們的新年"(看來有點霸道). 卻忘了它有另外一個更正確的稱呼--Lunar New Year. 至少我中學時校曆是這樣寫的.

新一年, 祝各位 (以及我自己, 嘻!)
身體健康, 家人平安, 心想事成

恭喜發財!

1 comment:

Scott McLean said...

Hi, Sounds as though you had a lot of fun on New Year celebration. I'm just enjoying this day with some coffee and reading some blogs. Hope we can be friends. You seem very nice. Take care.

Scott