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Originally Posted by cuonglhvt
Thank you for your attention!
I've already edit my post.
But my question is: Will the children born in the January of 2008 will have age of Rat (Nezumi).
Because in my country, it was "the year of boar/pig" until January 6th.
If you don't have impresssion of japanese people feeling, can you kindly tell me your personal feeling (opinion).
Do you think that I am crazy when I say: "Japanese! Pls use the day 1/1, 3/3, 5/5, 7/7, 15/7 of Lunar calendar for Shogatsu, Hinamatsuri, Kodomo no hi, Tanabana and Obon! Because that will be traditional"?
I ask because in my country, when I said "We can use Western calendar for festivals and holidays as Japanese can" people think that I am crazy.  , that I am "counter-cultural", "counter-traditional"...
I think that Japanese people is not traditional very much. But people in the world know more about Japanese traditional culture. That proves that if we do the same, we will not be "counter-traditional".
Do you agree?
I think that Japanese traditional believe is a mix of Buddhist and Shinto. I think that is similar to our country, only about 10% people of our country "quy y" (in Kanji 帰依). That means they are "Official Buddhist". About 80% think that Buddhist is a traditional religion (as well as Ancestor worship). In our country, people think that Confucianism is undeveloped, but the Ancestor Worship tradition is still be kept. |
I don't know where you are from, so please give a little information about that.
In Japan, children born on January 1 on will be born in the Year of the Rat.
I cannot yet determine if you are crazy or not. If you are making a crusade agaisnt the Western calendar in Japan, I wish you the best of luck. Japan has adopted Christmas, Valentine's Day, Halloween (to a small extent) and other Western holidays, along with their own traditions, so I thing you will be hard pressed to slap the West out of Japan's calendar.
In Japan they say you are born Shinto, marry Christian and die Buddhist. Serious religious practices are only practiced by few, but almost all Japanese participate in religious traditions, even if the tradition is more important than the religion.