HANOI, Jan 21 ― As China gears up to welcome the Year of the Rabbit, Lunar New Year looks slightly different in Vietnam, where the Year of the Cat is about to begin. Across the...
HANOI, Jan 21 ― As China gears up to welcome the Year of the Rabbit, Lunar New Year looks slightly different in Vietnam, where the Year of the Cat is about to begin.
Vietnam and neighbouring China share 10 of the zodiac calendar’s 12 signs ― the rat, tiger, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig.There are a host of theories to explain why the Vietnamese plumped for the cat. “Rice is a huge part of Vietnam’s agriculture, but with the threat of many rats in the fields, the cats are a popular animal for the Vietnamese,” he told AFP.
There is also a theory that the Vietnamese made their own interpretation of the Chinese word for rabbit, “mao”. In Vietnamese, this sounds like “meo”, which means cat.Hoang Thi Huong Giang, an office worker in Hanoi, a city filled with traditional orange kumquat trees and pink blossoms ahead of Tet, said she had never paid attention to the reasons that Vietnamese honoured a different zodiac animal to the rest of the world.
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