Japan Preparing for Lunar New Year 2016 (February 8) !!

[Wolfwind]

I can understand you, but to ask others nations to celebrate "Chinese new Year" as their national day can also consider as insult for their people and national dignity but they couldn't abolished it because it's part of their culture to celebrate this day since the ancient time, so they have to create their own version of "new year". Maybe we came from different region and have different perception but for me we can just be wise enough to open and share our culture to others by have less sentisitve name such Chineseness as prefix.

As example, I don't know where exactily this new year originate in China, let say it's from Hebei, if Heibei people keep insisting that it can't be renarme as "Chinese New year" because it's exclusive to Hebei, do you think the entire Chinese from other regioons of China will celebrate this day? for me it's just local culture

If they feel insulted that they are celebrating 'Chinese New Year' then that is their own personal, emotional problem that they need to deal with. Nobody is forcing them to celebrate something that is Chinese derived and which is also not invented by their ancestors, so they can freely stop celebrating it if they feel insulted that their festivals are Chinese derived.

Whether it originates in the plains of Hebei, the deserts of Gansu, or the forests of Sichuan it doesn't matter because they all still identify as Chinese by heritage, ethnicity and culture so I think it would be odd for someone from one province to make such a demand for other Chinese.

Meanwhile peripheral Asians do not identify as Chinese by heritage ethnicity and culture so therefore it's rather disrespectful for them to try to take the Chineseness out of it and act like their festival has nothing to do with China and is some form of unique indigenous cultural aspect that their forefathers created (when it's not). Therefore I strongly prefer the term Chinese New Year because it respectfully acknowledges the original authors, whereas terms like Lunar New Year erases that and makes it into a generic Asian theme to pander to peripheral Asians who get upset when they are reminded that their new year is derived from China.

 

[TaiShang]

@Nihonjin1051 and our my fellows Chinese brothers, what you think that we should all drop the call such "Chinese new year". Japanese new year, Korean new year and Vietnamese new years but make universal one for all north east Asians,
I never heard Western people call "American christmas" or French Christmas.

Sorry for belated comment, but, that's I am 100% agree with.

That's why, I never say "Chinese New Year;" I simply say "New Year" when I have to use it in English.

Of course, as every one of us knows, we do not attribute national designations when we use it in our respective language to wish happy new year to each other. This suggests something, that is, universality.

 

[Jlaw]

I can understand you, but to ask others nations to celebrate "Chinese new Year" as their national day can also consider as insult for their people and national dignity but they couldn't abolished it because it's part of their culture to celebrate this day since the ancient time, so they have to create their own version of "new year". Maybe we came from different region and have different perception but for me we can just be wise enough to open and share our culture to others by have less sentisitve name such Chineseness as prefix.

As example, I don't know where exactily this new year originate in China, let say it's from Hebei, if Heibei people keep insisting that it can't be renarme as "Chinese New year" because it's exclusive to Hebei, do you think the entire Chinese from other regioons of China will celebrate this day? for me it's just local culture

sure call lunar new year since according to some Koreans it was first celebrated in Korea before China. Didn't Chinese come from Korea?

 

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[Wolfwind]

I will call it Lunar New Year as long as Vietnamese agree pho should be renamed as "noodlebroth", Koreans agree that kimchi should be renamed as "spicy fermented cabbage", and Japanese agree sushi should be renamed to "ricerolls".

This removes all connotations of cultural origin, just like what is being proposed with East Asian / Lunar New Year.

Like why do we have to give up the ownership of our own culture to satisfy people who loathe the Chinese, yet still want to selfishly and greedily enjoy the fruits of our culture?