Asian people what you doing for the New Year

[mackle]

I think my Chinese friend told me last year he got about $900 from his relatives and Dam!!! that's alot. As tradition, Chinese relatives (I think)put alot of money in the red pouch. 😀

 

[abc]

Originally posted by: mackle
I think my Chinese friend told me last year he got about $900 from his relatives and Dam!!! that's alot. As tradition, Chinese relatives (I think)put alot of money in the red pouch. 😀

and they say azns are cheap. you could go either way at least. because of occasions like this they have to be the rest of the yr!

relatives give more to family. Casual acquiantances get less.. the envelope becomes more of a NYrs courtesy.

 

[dym]

staying home, doing homework...

 

[iversonyin]

Originally posted by: abc

Originally posted by: mackle
I think my Chinese friend told me last year he got about $900 from his relatives and Dam!!! that's alot. As tradition, Chinese relatives (I think)put alot of money in the red pouch. 😀

and they say azns are cheap. you could go either way at least. because of occasions like this they have to be the rest of the yr!

relatives give more to family. Casual acquiantances get less.. the envelope becomes more of a NYrs courtesy.

I don't know about you guys, I just don't like recieving those kind of money. There is no enjoyment spending it.

For me that is. I'm just a fool. I rather earn it myself.

Anyhow, happy dog year to everyone!!!

 

[DVK916]

Originally posted by: dighn

Originally posted by: DVK916
Vietnamese too, a very significant portion of the words in Vietnamese come from Chinese. Specifically cantonees.

We use to write like Chinese people too. This is only vietnamese. Some might mistaken it for Chinese.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Kim_van_kieu_chu_nom.JPG

wow that really does look like chinese. in fact a good portion of the characters are identcal

In English this is what it translates to:

A hundred years ? in this life span on earth
talent and destiny are apt to feud.
You must go through an event in which the sea becomes mulberry fields
and watch such things as make you sick at heart.
Is it strange that who is rich in this is poor in that?
Blue Heaven?s wont to strike rosy cheeks from spite.

 

[mackle]

Originally posted by: iversonyin

Originally posted by: abc

Originally posted by: mackle
I think my Chinese friend told me last year he got about $900 from his relatives and Dam!!! that's alot. As tradition, Chinese relatives (I think)put alot of money in the red pouch. 😀

and they say azns are cheap. you could go either way at least. because of occasions like this they have to be the rest of the yr!

relatives give more to family. Casual acquiantances get less.. the envelope becomes more of a NYrs courtesy.

I don't know about you guys, I just don't like recieving those kind of money. There is no enjoyment spending it.

For me that is. I'm just a fool. I rather earn it myself.

Anyhow, happy dog year to everyone!!!

You not proud of recieving these kind of money it becuz you didn't make them? Then you are a fool. It's not about how much money you get during this event and specially where it came from. The more money you get which mean you know alot of people and they all love you, care about you that why they gave you that money. And how to use this money is also important. You can give this money back to the younger kids in your family as tradition or just go blow all on whatever becuz you don't know the special value of this kind of money.

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: kogase

Originally posted by: Skyhanger
Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese actually have words that sound suprisingly alike to Chinese. It has to do w/ all the historical cultrual exchanges that happened over the centuries, not unlike relationships between many european languages.

I read that something like 50% of the Korean language is Chinese. And in Japanese each character has a Japanese reading and a Chinese reading. The two readings are used for specific contexts.

Partially yes and no

Spoken Korean language has nothing to do with the Chinese language. A lot of words have their roots in chinese words, much like the way English inherited many words from Latin. Does that mean contemporary english language is like 50% Latin? Probably not. For one thing, use of chinese letters is neither mandated, nor as prelevant as it once used to be. Even when they are written in chinese letters, they are "localized", meaning they are read differently and sometimes even drawn differently.

In the past, newspapers used to be filled with Chinese letters to conform to the belief that it is required for a sense of "authenticity" and "seriousness". Few decades have past, and while they still have a class on Chinese letters starting in junior high, the younger generation isnt quite in touch with the Chinese letters as their parents once were. There are newspapers without a single Chinese letter on it, and you wont see much Chinese letters on Korean webpages anywhere. That says a lot, with korea being the most wired nation in the world.

Actually, the influence of Latin on English is an excellent analogy of what significance Chinese language has over the Korean (or the Japanese, to a certain extent) language IMO.

As for the japanese language using Chinese letters, you are pretty much right. Gotta love how mangas have little subcrits in Hiragana, that way I could at least read and understand most of it. I was told you need to know at least 2000 of those letters to function as a normal human being in Japan, dont quote me on that number though. What a PITA, need to finish like 3 books on it and havnt it got to start on that yet 😛 Again, you would probably guessed its mostly the written launguage, not as much of spoken language.

 

[EmperorIQ]

when I was around 13-16 i remember seeing kids saying "my parents gave me 500 bucks each" or some of them get 1000. I really don't konw what the heck a 13yr old would need with 1k. Seriously. =\ At most i'd ever get is 80 and i'd be happy with that. heh

 

[konakona]

Originally posted by: EmperorIQ
when I was around 13-16 i remember seeing kids saying "my parents gave me 500 bucks each" or some of them get 1000. I really don't konw what the heck a 13yr old would need with 1k. Seriously. =\ At most i'd ever get is 80 and i'd be happy with that. heh

wow... you must be rolling with some rich folks around you there 😱