2023.01.10
Happy New Year!
I’d like to wish all our students a very happy 2023! I hope you had a lovely winter holiday and are excited to be back at school to see your friends and study hard!
As you probably know, this is the year of the rabbit. It’s a special year for people who will be 12, 24, 36, and so on in 2023 as they were also born in the year of the rabbit. According to Chinese tradition, the rabbit is the luckiest of all the twelve ‘’year’’ animals. “Rabbit people” are calm and peaceful. They do not fight. They are also artistic. What do you think? Was anyone in your family born in the year of the rabbit? Are they peaceful and lucky people?
Interestingly, although it is the year of the rabbit in both Japan and China, it is the year of the cat, not the rabbit, in Vietnam. The other eleven years are the same in Vietnam as in other countries; only this year is different. I read on the Internet that the old word for rabbit in Chinese sounds like the word for cat, and that is maybe why the difference happened. Anyway, there are many stories about why there is no ‘’cat year’’ in Chinese tradition, so it’s interesting to see that in Vietnam, there is in fact a cat year.
Best wishes to everyone – rabbits, cats, and all other animals! – in 2023.
As you probably know, this is the year of the rabbit. It’s a special year for people who will be 12, 24, 36, and so on in 2023 as they were also born in the year of the rabbit. According to Chinese tradition, the rabbit is the luckiest of all the twelve ‘’year’’ animals. “Rabbit people” are calm and peaceful. They do not fight. They are also artistic. What do you think? Was anyone in your family born in the year of the rabbit? Are they peaceful and lucky people?
Interestingly, although it is the year of the rabbit in both Japan and China, it is the year of the cat, not the rabbit, in Vietnam. The other eleven years are the same in Vietnam as in other countries; only this year is different. I read on the Internet that the old word for rabbit in Chinese sounds like the word for cat, and that is maybe why the difference happened. Anyway, there are many stories about why there is no ‘’cat year’’ in Chinese tradition, so it’s interesting to see that in Vietnam, there is in fact a cat year.
Best wishes to everyone – rabbits, cats, and all other animals! – in 2023.
