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jeeza
01-27-2004, 03:14 PM
As you are well aware, the Chinese have a very different calendar from ours. The date (relative to our calendar) of their New Year is based on the Moon's rather than on the Sun's motion.
This year, the Chinese New Year started on January 22nd, 2004 and we are in the Year of the Monkey.

A nice musical monkey animated e-mail postcard :
http://202.64.59.203/ecard/12monkeyX.html

Vic 970
01-27-2004, 05:00 PM
hoppy nu yar

:D

malcore
01-27-2004, 05:15 PM
xin nian quai lo! (sheen nyen kwy le)

kong hsi fa tsai! (gong she fah sigh) ;)

jeeza
01-27-2004, 06:34 PM
Really astounding, malcore. Now if only we knew what it means ???
BTW, is it Mandarin ?

Here some nice Chinese music files you can download :
ftp://sunsite.tus.ac.jp/pub/multimedia/chinese-music
and
ftp://sunsite.tus.ac.jp/pub/multimedia/taiwanese-music