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Old 02-15-2016, 09:28 PM
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Originally Posted by bizi View Post
It sounds like the chinese new year fell on the same day as lundi gras feb 8th..which was the day before mardi gras. The second new moon after the equinox.
I wonder if that is every chinese new year? I will remember this!


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They are both lunar so they both move around but they apparently do not
move around the same way. For example in 2017

Chinese New Year: Jan 28, 2017
Lundi Gras: February 27, 2017
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/china/2017
http://www.wikidates.org/fr/mardi-gras-2017.html


I guess that some years they match up and other years they do not.

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