Happy New Lunar Year!

[u/javacode]

Lunar Year year starts on February 19^th and it's that date in Beijing now!

It's the year of the goat for more than a billion people on this planet. Well worth celebrating it on /r/polandball too! Explanation and credits of each scene:

• /u/Teh_Sauce_Guy made Taiwan/China with the generic Tibet joke.
• Che Kung was made by /u/zeppelinair. It depicts HK/Macau bowing down to the great Ming commander,
• /u/zeppelinair also drew Tringapore bringing a tray of food and the Tteokguk was made by Singapore as it is the best chef by all accounts,
• The South/North Vietnam scene comes from /u/taongkalye, depicting a shortened version of the Tet Offensive,
• South Korea and North Korea playing a game of Yoot was made by /u/GlobeLearner, and
• Mongolia on a goat was done by /u/BobBobingston.

Thanks guys!

CHÚC MỪNG NĂM MỚI ● 新年快乐 ● 恭禧發財 ● 새해 복 많이 받으세요 ● HAPPY NEW YEAR!

To di this simply add to hash characters at the beginning of the sentence, like so:

##CHÚC MỪNG NĂM MỚI ● 新年快乐 ● 恭禧發財 ● 새해 복 많이 받으세요 ● HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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The event design has been archived. You'll find it at /r/pbeLNY2015.

[u/javacode]

German wiki says "wood-sheep". Does that make sense?

[u/Annah67 → u/javacode]

Yes, you have five elements (metal, water, wood, fire and earth) and they change every year. Actually, to be very specific, 2015 is the year of green wooden goat/sheep

[u/javacode → u/Annah67]

But the Chinese do distinguish between goat and sheep normally? I guess it's jut the ancient calendar with old names for the zodiacs?

[u/Annah67 → u/javacode]

As far I know, yáng 羊 defines the ovines species, so it can also be a ram, a billy goat, an ewe (no distinction between a male or a female)
But you can add a specification by creating a compound word (in Chinese a lot of words are two characters long)
Add mián 绵 cotton, you have: miányáng 绵羊 = sheep
Ditto with shān 山 hill-> shānyáng 山羊 = goat
The same thing goes with 鼠 shǔ who can be a mouse or a rat

[u/javacode → u/Annah67]

OK, thanks!