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[sleepystar2025]

Some Americans are asking Chinese to call Chinese New Year the Lunar New Year to be "inclusive" and Chinese netizens are getting so confused .娃娃和芥末丝

Chinese ask Americans why are you saying we can't call Chinese New Year CNY? But do you know that the so called Lunar New Year actually falls in summer and CNY is in winter?

Many posts are about this CNY and LNY beefing and comments section are funny: "Calling it "Lunar New Year" just feels like a way to avoid acknowledging its origins. It's like calling Christmas "Winter Festival"-Indonesian netizens. "We should start to call English Globalish now."-US netizens. "I love my Korean friends, but if the Koreans want to rename Chinese New Year to Lunar New Year, I'm renaming K-Pop to L-Pop. Lunar Pop." "So true, they have not only Korean in those girls band anyway" -Canadian netizens. Here is the detailed explanation why the LNY is academically incorrect and culturally fake 爱粒鲨

[sleepystar2025]

It's always Chinese New Year because Lunar New Year is a fake concept, calling Chinese New Year Lunar New Year is actually cultural appropriation, unless you guys are willing to let Chinese call Christmas Koreanmas

This video explains very clearly that the Chinese New Year is determined by the Nanjing Zijinshan Observatory, the date of each year is different, and the determination method is complicated, combining the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, the celestial trunk and earthly branches, and the geographical latitude and longitude. Chinese New Year is actually based on Chinese agriculture calendar, not a simple lunar calendar at all, if it's based only on lunar calendar, then the Chinese New Year date should fall close to the summer months, so calling it LNY is not only disrespectful to Chinese culture, but also unreasonable.

[tired-pidgeon]

I think she misses the point of calling it Lunar New Year though

Like in Vietnam, they call it Tet. In South Korea, it’s Seollal. So instead of wishing everyone a happy Chinese new year/Tet/seollal, it’s easier and more accurate to say “lunar new year”

By all means call it Chinese New Year if you’re wishing a Chinese person or are talking about your own celebrations though. But the term may not apply as well to Vietnamese or Korean communities.

In fact I’m pretty sure Tet and Seollal are celebrated differently than Chinese New Year. They are their own cultures and have their own customs. I’m pretty sure Vietnam doesn’t even use the same zodiac (they include a cat)

Or do whatever you want. I’m Chinese but I’m not gatekeeping lol. Ask Vietnamese and Koreans what they think

[sleepystar2025]

Calling CNY Lunar New Year is incorrect, because it just can't be, like an apple can't be a pear. As the video mentioned, if it's based only on lunar calendar solely, then the Chinese New Year date should fall to the summer months, then why they rely on the date set by Nanjing Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory each year? Why they align with Chinese perpetual calendar万年历 every year? Because the algorithm is too complex for them to figure out on their own. This algorithm includes heavenly stems and earthly branches, as well as Chinese agricultural feng shui. If the Chinese New Year date is calculated solely based on lunar calendar, then it will fall on June 27, 2025 this year. So calling it Lunar New Year is totally disrespectful to Chinese culture and its cultural identity. The comment section in the video said For all who want to celebrate LUNER NEW YEAR, please celebrate on June 27, 2025 AD. BUT January 29, 2025 is the CHINESE NEW YEAR which is Chunjie or Spring Festival. Chinese New Year is from the Chinese calendar, not from the lunar calendar.

No offense but you crudely implying that other Chinese are gatekeeping, then they surely can take that as you are supporting cultural appropriation and de-sinicization, because you don't even bother to discuss the fact that calling CNY Lunar new year is culturally and academically wrong and lacks basis. It's a big stunt of de-sinicization, which by your logic English should be called globalish because we all speak English, and we want to feel inclusive. If there is a need to pick a more inclusive term, why not the term chunjie, spring festival? Spring Festival is already registered with the United Nations, why don't use it instead of LNY? Why remove the “Chinese” from every concept that originated in China and is originally Chinese culture like they always do? This is what the western world has been doing for a long time, and if you are Chinese but support what they are doing, are you still surprised that many westerners are racists towards Chinese, this is how they treat the Chinese for a long time, by marginalizing you and your culture. They make you as invisible as the elephant in the room, and anyone who is aware of your presence is oblivious to you.

I asked my Korean friend, who, please note, is not a Korean born in a Western country, she was born in Jilin province Yanbian Korean autonomous region and raised in South Korea, and she confirmed with me that Korea never celebrated the term LNY before the 2010s, they just aligned with Chinese new year and called it 설날. This word doesn't remove its Chinese New Year origin. It was in the last couple of years that they suddenly started to appropriated a lot of Chinese culture but rename it and obscure its cultural identity, and she told me that it is true that Korea celebrated 설날 each year on the date set by the Nanjing Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory, rather than on some kind of lunar calendar new year date, and that she didn't understand why South Korea government suddenly did that in the past couple years, banning Chinese people from saying Chinese New Year in western world, and she finds the whole thing ridiculous.

No hard feelings and have a nice happy Chinese New Year.

[tired-pidgeon]

Wow you got really offended by my observations huh

Calling it Lunar New Year instead of Chinese New Year doesn’t hurt Chinese people lol. One word does not erase thousands of years of history. The reputation of Chinese people worldwide does not hinge on whether we demand people use CNY vs LNY

Yeah other countries use the Chinese calendar. So what? Other countries use the Gregorian calendar too, but we don’t say “happy Gregorian new year” do we. It doesn’t matter??

Anyway happy CNY to you

[sleepystar2025]

“Calling it Lunar New Year instead of Chinese New Year doesn’t hurt Chinese people lol.” Now I doubt your words. If a person is indifferent to his culture being offended, he has no right to feel that just because he is Chinese he can represent other Chinese people, does he? I think you're just pretending to be Chinese because you're avoiding all the issues I'm discussing, all you have to do is download Little Red Book and you'll see that all Chinese people are disgusted by the term LNY. I don't think you can represent us, especially you can't represent those Chinese who know and love Chinese culture. Because you avoided all the facts I presented, is this picture what you call INCLUSIVE? Banning Chinese people from saying Chinese New Year but appropriate Chinese New Year as Korean New Year in a big stunt by google? No wonder Deepseek is giving chatgpt and google a hard slap on the face.

[tired-pidgeon]

Wow you’re really butthurt that a Chinese person doesn’t agree with you. Don’t eat mala hotpot for CNY or you’ll feel even worse later

Chinese people are not a monolith lol. I’m not trying to speak for you, but you are trying to speak for all Chinese people everywhere, me included? Get your head out of the sand. I am Chinese, I am ok with calling it either thing, and I am not alone. Also it’s stupid to say that because I disagree I’m not Chinese hahaha

Keep your silly nationalist pride to yourself. It doesn’t smell good anyway. As for me, I am secure in my Chinese identity and don’t need to gatekeep the biggest festival of the year from other communities that celebrate it

[sleepystar2025]

Wow you’re really butthurt that I don't believe you are Chinese and you are calling me "silly""stupid" and nationalist now, look who just lost decency and got mad here, very typical westerner move, like all the meta media, first they tag themselves with good tags then tag Chinese with bad tags like you do. You've ignored all the cultural and academic questions I've raised, which leads me to reasonably suspect that you're either incredibly arrogant and willfully ignorant, or you simply don't understand Chinese culture, so you don't even know how to discuss it, or both.

You don't talk about logic and facts, you only talk about political positions, you claim that you are so generous and inclusive but you are not willing to discuss the very valid reason why most Chinese people don't like the term LNY and all you are able to cover it is calling them gatekeepers and not inclusive enough, seems to me you just hate average Chinese on xiaohongshu and you are being covert racist to them. You keep avoiding my questions, your comments are hollow because you are judging me with a sense of superiority, and you can't answer those actual questions. So basically, you are just condescending without giving any contents. I don't need to talk to you anymore, your words have exposed yourself.

[sleepystar2025]

It's always Chinese New Year because Lunar New Year is a fake concept, calling Chinese New Year Lunar New Year is actually cultural appropriation, unless you guys are willing to let Chinese call Christmas Koreanmas

This video explains very clearly that the Chinese New Year is determined by the Nanjing Zijinshan Observatory, the date of each year is different, and the determination method is complicated, combining the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, the celestial trunk and earthly branches, and the geographical latitude and longitude. Chinese New Year is actually based on Chinese agriculture calendar, not a simple lunar calendar at all, if it's based only on lunar calendar, then the Chinese New Year date should fall close to the summer months, so calling it LNY is not only disrespectful to Chinese culture, but also unreasonable.

[tired-pidgeon]

I think she misses the point of calling it Lunar New Year though

Like in Vietnam, they call it Tet. In South Korea, it’s Seollal. So instead of wishing everyone a happy Chinese new year/Tet/seollal, it’s easier and more accurate to say “lunar new year”

By all means call it Chinese New Year if you’re wishing a Chinese person or are talking about your own celebrations though. But the term may not apply as well to Vietnamese or Korean communities.

In fact I’m pretty sure Tet and Seollal are celebrated differently than Chinese New Year. They are their own cultures and have their own customs. I’m pretty sure Vietnam doesn’t even use the same zodiac (they include a cat)

Or do whatever you want. I’m Chinese but I’m not gatekeeping lol. Ask Vietnamese and Koreans what they think

[sleepystar2025]

Calling CNY Lunar New Year is incorrect, because it just can't be, like an apple can't be a pear. As the video mentioned, if it's based only on lunar calendar solely, then the Chinese New Year date should fall to the summer months, then why they rely on the date set by Nanjing Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory each year? Why they align with Chinese perpetual calendar万年历 every year? Because the algorithm is too complex for them to figure out on their own. This algorithm includes heavenly stems and earthly branches, as well as Chinese agricultural feng shui. If the Chinese New Year date is calculated solely based on lunar calendar, then it will fall on June 27, 2025 this year. So calling it Lunar New Year is totally disrespectful to Chinese culture and its cultural identity. The comment section in the video said For all who want to celebrate LUNER NEW YEAR, please celebrate on June 27, 2025 AD. BUT January 29, 2025 is the CHINESE NEW YEAR which is Chunjie or Spring Festival. Chinese New Year is from the Chinese calendar, not from the lunar calendar.

No offense but you crudely implying that other Chinese are gatekeeping, then they surely can take that as you are supporting cultural appropriation and de-sinicization, because you don't even bother to discuss the fact that calling CNY Lunar new year is culturally and academically wrong and lacks basis. It's a big stunt of de-sinicization, which by your logic English should be called globalish because we all speak English, and we want to feel inclusive. If there is a need to pick a more inclusive term, why not the term chunjie, spring festival? Spring Festival is already registered with the United Nations, why don't use it instead of LNY? Why remove the “Chinese” from every concept that originated in China and is originally Chinese culture like they always do? This is what the western world has been doing for a long time, and if you are Chinese but support what they are doing, are you still surprised that many westerners are racists towards Chinese, this is how they treat the Chinese for a long time, by marginalizing you and your culture. They make you as invisible as the elephant in the room, and anyone who is aware of your presence is oblivious to you.

I asked my Korean friend, who, please note, is not a Korean born in a Western country, she was born in Jilin province Yanbian Korean autonomous region and raised in South Korea, and she confirmed with me that Korea never celebrated the term LNY before the 2010s, they just aligned with Chinese new year and called it 설날. This word doesn't remove its Chinese New Year origin. It was in the last couple of years that they suddenly started to appropriated a lot of Chinese culture but rename it and obscure its cultural identity, and she told me that it is true that Korea celebrated 설날 each year on the date set by the Nanjing Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory, rather than on some kind of lunar calendar new year date, and that she didn't understand why South Korea government suddenly did that in the past couple years, banning Chinese people from saying Chinese New Year in western world, and she finds the whole thing ridiculous.

No hard feelings and have a nice happy Chinese New Year.

[tired-pidgeon]

Wow you got really offended by my observations huh

Calling it Lunar New Year instead of Chinese New Year doesn’t hurt Chinese people lol. One word does not erase thousands of years of history. The reputation of Chinese people worldwide does not hinge on whether we demand people use CNY vs LNY

Yeah other countries use the Chinese calendar. So what? Other countries use the Gregorian calendar too, but we don’t say “happy Gregorian new year” do we. It doesn’t matter??

Anyway happy CNY to you

[sleepystar2025]

“Calling it Lunar New Year instead of Chinese New Year doesn’t hurt Chinese people lol.” Now I doubt your words. If a person is indifferent to his culture being offended, he has no right to feel that just because he is Chinese he can represent other Chinese people, does he? I think you're just pretending to be Chinese because you're avoiding all the issues I'm discussing, all you have to do is download Little Red Book and you'll see that all Chinese people are disgusted by the term LNY. I don't think you can represent us, especially you can't represent those Chinese who know and love Chinese culture. Because you avoided all the facts I presented, is this picture what you call INCLUSIVE? Banning Chinese people from saying Chinese New Year but appropriate Chinese New Year as Korean New Year in a big stunt by google? No wonder Deepseek is giving chatgpt and google a hard slap on the face.

[sleepystar2025]

It's always Chinese New Year because Lunar New Year is a fake concept, calling Chinese New Year Lunar New Year is actually cultural appropriation, unless you guys are willing to let Chinese call Christmas Koreanmas

This video explains very clearly that the Chinese New Year is determined by the Nanjing Zijinshan Observatory, the date of each year is different, and the determination method is complicated, combining the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, the celestial trunk and earthly branches, and the geographical latitude and longitude. Chinese New Year is actually based on Chinese agriculture calendar, not a simple lunar calendar at all, if it's based only on lunar calendar, then the Chinese New Year date should fall close to the summer months, so calling it LNY is not only disrespectful to Chinese culture, but also unreasonable.

[tired-pidgeon]

I think she misses the point of calling it Lunar New Year though

Like in Vietnam, they call it Tet. In South Korea, it’s Seollal. So instead of wishing everyone a happy Chinese new year/Tet/seollal, it’s easier and more accurate to say “lunar new year”

By all means call it Chinese New Year if you’re wishing a Chinese person or are talking about your own celebrations though. But the term may not apply as well to Vietnamese or Korean communities.

In fact I’m pretty sure Tet and Seollal are celebrated differently than Chinese New Year. They are their own cultures and have their own customs. I’m pretty sure Vietnam doesn’t even use the same zodiac (they include a cat)

Or do whatever you want. I’m Chinese but I’m not gatekeeping lol. Ask Vietnamese and Koreans what they think

[sleepystar2025]

Calling CNY Lunar New Year is incorrect, because it just can't be, like an apple can't be a pear. As the video mentioned, if it's based only on lunar calendar solely, then the Chinese New Year date should fall to the summer months, then why they rely on the date set by Nanjing Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory each year? Why they align with Chinese perpetual calendar万年历 every year? Because the algorithm is too complex for them to figure out on their own. This algorithm includes heavenly stems and earthly branches, as well as Chinese agricultural feng shui. If the Chinese New Year date is calculated solely based on lunar calendar, then it will fall on June 27, 2025 this year. So calling it Lunar New Year is totally disrespectful to Chinese culture and its cultural identity. The comment section in the video said For all who want to celebrate LUNER NEW YEAR, please celebrate on June 27, 2025 AD. BUT January 29, 2025 is the CHINESE NEW YEAR which is Chunjie or Spring Festival. Chinese New Year is from the Chinese calendar, not from the lunar calendar.

No offense but you crudely implying that other Chinese are gatekeeping, then they surely can take that as you are supporting cultural appropriation and de-sinicization, because you don't even bother to discuss the fact that calling CNY Lunar new year is culturally and academically wrong and lacks basis. It's a big stunt of de-sinicization, which by your logic English should be called globalish because we all speak English, and we want to feel inclusive. If there is a need to pick a more inclusive term, why not the term chunjie, spring festival? Spring Festival is already registered with the United Nations, why don't use it instead of LNY? Why remove the “Chinese” from every concept that originated in China and is originally Chinese culture like they always do? This is what the western world has been doing for a long time, and if you are Chinese but support what they are doing, are you still surprised that many westerners are racists towards Chinese, this is how they treat the Chinese for a long time, by marginalizing you and your culture. They make you as invisible as the elephant in the room, and anyone who is aware of your presence is oblivious to you.

I asked my Korean friend, who, please note, is not a Korean born in a Western country, she was born in Jilin province Yanbian Korean autonomous region and raised in South Korea, and she confirmed with me that Korea never celebrated the term LNY before the 2010s, they just aligned with Chinese new year and called it 설날. This word doesn't remove its Chinese New Year origin. It was in the last couple of years that they suddenly started to appropriated a lot of Chinese culture but rename it and obscure its cultural identity, and she told me that it is true that Korea celebrated 설날 each year on the date set by the Nanjing Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory, rather than on some kind of lunar calendar new year date, and that she didn't understand why South Korea government suddenly did that in the past couple years, banning Chinese people from saying Chinese New Year in western world, and she finds the whole thing ridiculous.

No hard feelings and have a nice happy Chinese New Year.

[sleepystar2025]

It's always Chinese New Year because Lunar New Year is a fake concept, calling Chinese New Year Lunar New Year is actually cultural appropriation, unless you guys are willing to let Chinese call Christmas Koreanmas

This video explains very clearly that the Chinese New Year is determined by the Nanjing Zijinshan Observatory, the date of each year is different, and the determination method is complicated, combining the solar calendar, the lunar calendar, the celestial trunk and earthly branches, and the geographical latitude and longitude. Chinese New Year is actually based on Chinese agriculture calendar, not a simple lunar calendar at all, if it's based only on lunar calendar, then the Chinese New Year date should fall close to the summer months, so calling it LNY is not only disrespectful to Chinese culture, but also unreasonable.

[eulaties]

pan zhanle broke HIS OWN world record for 100m freestyle!!! 🥳🥳

[eulaties]

im sorry but seeing all the racist white meltdowns in reaction to his win is incredibly amusing to me. stay mad you freaks !

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

yeah I saw that lmao they are so mad and they are all like 无能狂怒 in the comment section on his ins. These freaks read my lips, nmlgb,sb

China has been tested for doping dozens of times a day (they purposely don't check the US) this time. If pan doped, why didn't they detect it?

They're just impotent and 无能狂怒 when they're doping themselves and can't afford to lose.

In the Paris Olympics, the American athletes' faces were red like lavender after swimming, so red that it's not normal.

This abnormal blush is the result of a large amount of adrenaline, which is known to stimulate speed and short bursts of power. But it's dangerous and can be fatal when used in high doses. Dying patients are sometimes injected with adrenaline by doctors.

[not-evil-anymore-beasty]

Everyone had red faces like that after swimming, which can be explained by a high effort without being able to breathe as much as necessary. Additionally, some people are more inclined to redness after effort than others.

And I would honestly be really surprised if American athletes weren't tested too, the Olympics is an international event organized by people from multiple countries, nobody would be happy about someone not being tested.

Unless you have a reliable source for what you claim, it really looks like you speak without knowing just because you can.

I don't believe the Chinese athlete is dopped, but with claims like that, you fall just as low as those who do.

[sleepystar2025]

SHU THE FUCK UP POSER