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According to the Lad from the township of Clutha, it is the ram !:o
In the Chinese character "羊", covers, Goat, Sheep & Ram, no one is quite sure, if it is the year of the Goat, Sheep or Ram. Feminine you get Goat or Sheep, Masculine you get RAM...but I have not heard of year of the BILLY yet!...answer your question?:p
You not wrong on MUTTON...but so far, no year of the MUTTON..
like u said.. no one is sure.. so i still dont get the answer i am looking for
so should i wish just happy billy goat year to my male ahtiong friends and happy nanny goat year to my tiong bu friends?
so should i wish just happy billy goat year to my male ahtiong friends and happy nanny goat year to my tiong bu friends?
so it is perfectly ok to do this? http://sammyboyforum.com/showpost.php?p=12661735&postcount=2824
wishing all a happy goat year and then put a photo of a sheep?
i guess i will never understand how you sinkies work..
wishing all a happy goat year and then put a photo of a sheep?
i guess i will never understand how you sinkies work..
Don't stay away from Sinkies like one fucktardtwitnincompoobmudderfarkerspasticmaggie ... and you will understand how us sinkies work
This is the year the PAP will be slaught like sheeps by Oppositions.
Chinese New Year: so is it Year of the Sheep or Goat?
16 February 2015 11:39 AM | Updated 18 February 2015
Sheep or goat?
China's coming Chinese New Year has stirred a debate over which zodiac creature is the correct one – but Chinese folklorists dismiss the fixation on animals as missing the point.
Traditional astrology in China attaches different animal signs to each lunar year in a cycle of 12 years.
The symbol for the new year starting on 19 February is yang, which can refer to any member of the caprinae subfamily – or even beyond – depending on what additional Chinese character pairs with it.
For example, a goat is a shan yang, a sheep is a mian yang, and a Mongolian gazelle is a huang yang.
Both goats and sheep appear in Chinese New Year paintings, paper-cuts and other festival decorations.
Folklorists say it does not matter which one is used since the zodiac sign was chosen for the Chinese character's auspicious connotation rather than the specific animal – at least in the beginning.
"This yang is fictional. It does not refer to any specific kind (of sheep or goat)," Zhao Shu, a researcher with the Beijing Research Institute of Culture and History, told AFP.
MUCH ADO ABOUT MUTTON
Yang (羊) is a component of the written Chinese character xiang (祥), which means auspiciousness, and the two were interchangeable in ancient Chinese, experts say.
It is also a part of the character shan (善), which counts kindness and benevolence as among its meanings.
"Therefore yang is a symbol of... blessing and fortune and represents good things," said Yin Hubin, an ethnology researcher with the China Academy of Social Sciences, a government think-tank.
"It is connected to the original implication of the Chinese character as an ideogram and reflects the world view of the Chinese people in primitive times," he said.
That said, the zodiac sign is being shunned by some Chinese parents-to-be, with expectant mothers scheduling Caesarean sections to give birth before the current Year of the Horse ends, according to media reports.
The rush apparently stems from a Chinese superstition held by some that nine out of 10 sheep will be unhappy in life – a belief Yin dismissed as "ridiculous".
More often, the animal plays a positive role in Chinese folklore, experts say.
A fable that can be traced back to more than 1,500 years ago depicts five goats carrying crops in their mouth to save people suffering from years of drought in Guangzhou.
The southern boom town, today the capital of Guangdong province and dubbed the City of Goats, has enjoyed timely wind and rain ever since, according to the story.
BLEAT GENERATION
While the loose concept of yang comes naturally to Chinese people, in the west, the term can often be a source of frustration for those seeking an equivalent in their own language.
A Google search suggests that in English, "Year of the Sheep" is the most common phrasing.
In French, however, the reverse is true, with convention and an overwhelming Google ratio in favour of chevre, or goat.
Zhao thinks the translation is "open to interpretation".
"Sheep, goat, Mongolian gazelle – whatever is fine. This is the fun of Chinese characters," he said.
But some scholars argue goat is a better option for the traditional Han Chinese holiday, as it is a more commonly kept farm animal for the dominant ethnic group in China, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Many Chinese people appear to be unfazed by the debate.
"The year of the yang, 2015, is neither a sheep nor a goat. It is a beautiful and elegant milk yang! Abundant milk, clothes and food. It will be a halcyon year," wrote one user on Sina Weibo, a Chinese equivalent of Twitter.
Eschewing the lexical debate, some users have simply opted for the animal that they see as possessing their own favoured qualities.
"In the year of the yang, I want to be a strong-willed and energetic goat, not a weak sheep," another Sina Weibo user wrote.
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