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Originally Posted by Nyororin
And from my husband, who is Japanese;
I don`t know what you mean by "warm", but it is the time for the family to gather.
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That is what I mean "warm". So that means that your husband's family doesn't feel "western" when they use western calendar?
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
To an unfortunate level.
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I think this is the same in Korean, China and Vietnam. Althought they use Lunar Calendar for their "traditional" New year. Do you think so?
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Originally Posted by Nyororin
Other countries also use two calendar systems for festival dates. Normal dating is done by the western calendar, so if no one bothered to tell everyone what date lunar festivals fell on with the western calendar it would be a great pain. Tanabata is set locally, some places use the July date, some places celebrate in August.
Two calendars are a pain to remember. What is the problem with setting them on the one calendar that is relatively universal?
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I guess you mean "complicated" for the word "pain". So I agree with you. In my country, there are lots of local festivals and it make us crazy to remember the exactly date while we use Western Calendar for our daily life, but the Lunar Calendar move every year.