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gong xi fa cai! 🙂
Happy New Year, Jill. If you celebrate Tet, it is the Year of the Cat.
But according to a Chinese acquaintance, it’s the same year, it’s just that the Vietnamese are bad at drawing and their rabbit looks like a cat ;).
– Badtux the Tongue-in-beak Penguin
I think the problem was a lack of rabbits in Vietnam. I don’t remember ever seeing one in the markets, and there was certainly everything else available. I’ve heard a lot of other stories about it, which were somewhat unkind to the Chinese, but I’ll go with that they probably didn’t really know what rabbits were in Vietnam.