I got an answer from other forum. So I have somethingmore to ask.
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Originally Posted by Mars Man
Regarding 2.a.--A child born on January 1st, or anyday after that, up until just a second before midnight on December 31st of that same year, will be designatied as having been born in that year, therefore, a child born on January 1st of this year will be considered to have been born in the year of the mouse.
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Thank you. That is very important to me.
Because I tried to look for it on the internet, but the answer is very unspecific: "2008 is a year of Rat in Japan". That is true!
Now there is enough detail for me.
That means:
- The "Year of Rat" in Japan fixed completely to 2008. And 2010 will be fixed to the whole "Year of Tiger". There are no difference between official calendar (western one) and the "animal designation"(地支).
- In Vietnam, "The year of Tiger" is from Feb 14 of 2010 to Feb 3 of 2011. That is very important for Vietnamese. Because they avoid not to have a girl baby born in that year.
I think that as other countries, some Japanese people are superstitious, some are not (somebody said that Japanese are very suppositious. That is their opinion, I don't care). I want to as about superstitious ones.
- Do they believe that the "animal designation" (which fixed to western calendar) has effect on their lives? Such as personal characters of people who were born in a specific year. Or do they believe that some years are lucky or unlucky for some body because of "animal designations" (of course the "western one")?
- If not, do they believe that the "animal designation" (which fixed to Chinese calendar) has effect on their lives?
- If both above answes are not true, do people think that the "animal designation" (for western calendar) just for kidding? They have another system of superstitious (a western one? Another Japanese one? Or they have multiform kinds of superstitious).
- Do Japanese superstitious people strongly believe that their belief bases on a "scientific fundamental"?
The above questions are to compare with Vietnam. In Vietnam, the superstitious base on the system of "Lunar Calendar", "animal designation", "five elements", "eight trigrams"…
- People who are not superstitious strongly oppose the above system.
- People who are superstitious strongly believe that the above system bases on "scientific fundamental". Their argument is "A lot of sciences such as traditional medical (I know it is called Kampo, Shiatsu… in Japanese) bases on this system".
- Some people is not so superstitious, but on some important dates and times (wedding, buried death people…) they take the advice from this system to keep themselves not so "strange" to "everybody".
- The Western superstitious (unlucky day of 13th Friday, western zodiac, blood type…) in Vietnam just for kidding of teens.