The Chinese Luner Calender

[Kaige]

I know this should maybe be in the pole section, but how many of us use it ? and believe in it on age and other lifes events? How many of our wives use it.

[frank1538]

Unfortunately , Jingwen sometimes uses lunar dates. I always have to double check. This actually created a small problem for us while we were prepping the paperwork for GZ when I needed her mom and dad's birth dates.

[tonado]

The only time I use it is to find out the date of Chinese New Year, which is happened to be my wife's birthday too.

[owenkrout]

My wife is slowly adapting to using the Western calender. She still keeps a Chinese calendar for her own reference. It lead to some confusion on our initial paperwork as I did not realize that she was giving me her date of birth by the Chinese system. To further complicate it, the PSB had made a mistake on some of her paper work and entered the lunar month and day. Thus she had papers with two different dates of birth. We finally got a very cooperative PSB office in Dalian to change everything to the same date at the same time that they issued a police certificate for her.

 

Chunxia also claims to be able to determine suitability of dates and ones fate in life from the Chinese calendar. Personally, I think she is just really good at making up a good story that people like to hear.