Lion Dance at Wedding - Uhhh Oh Year of the Rooster!

Lion Dance at Wedding - Uhhh Oh Year of the Rooster!
Originally uploaded by triciawang.

Honolulu Hawaii
Today (Sept 19) is Chinese Moon Festival. It is a propitious day to marry for Chinese couples - you see we are obsessed with numbers and tonal insinuations. you never want to marry on a day with the number 4 - because it sounds like death. Usually, you want to marry on a day with as many even number's as possible. However to marry on a Lunar Day is very auspicious - so the odd numbers are cancelled out. And "9" means forever - so to marry on 9-19-2005 would seem great right? HOWEVER lest we forget that this is the Year of the Rooster, otherwise known as Year of the Widow. Every 4 years of the Chinese Almanac, the first day of Chinese New Years falls after the first day of spring - so this means "No Spring" = no harvest, no passion, no new beginnings, no new children even!
The whole industry of the Chinese Wedding is usually desperate for work because no couple wants to marry in such an inauspicious year!
Someone needs to do a statistical study on whether those who married during The Year of the Rooster are less happier than those who married in other years.