A purr-fect New Year in Vietnam
China Daily | Updated: 2011-02-01 07:58
HANOI, Vietnam - While China and others in Asia ring in the lunar Year of the Rabbit this week, Vietnamese are purring about the coming Year of the Cat.
Exactly why and when Vietnam dumped the rabbit and adopted the cat for its version of the 12-sign lunar zodiac is up for debate and may have been partly the result of a complex translation error.
These days, though, the idea of hopping back to the rabbit would be highly disagreeable to most Vietnamese.
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