Have you informed the Chinese? According to you, they've been getting the "true" new year wrong much much longer than the western world - and they have written records to show it.
By the way, you may want to research Japanese/Buddhist superstitions regarding numbers - you might find out some interesting traditions involving numbers like 46 (twice 23 - ooooh, scary).
No, those numbers aren't scary. Check this thread, now this is, .. oooh, scary.
SezMe (22nd November 2006)
http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/showthread.php?t=69171
Okay, .........
That the Chineses calendar comes from the 16th century and instead of being much older says a great deal. Then you look at its' origins and you learn more.
Okay, .............. engage and open mind, logic etc. Answer a question in order to see a possible infuence.
Q:
"Really, what was the great wall for?"
Now, what does the following represent in relation to offense/defensive manuever over time?
Adam Schall (??? [???], T?ng Rùowàng, 1591-1666), Imperial Astronomer in Beijing. Designed the current Chinese calendar
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13520a.htm
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
An especially prominent figure among the missionaries to China, b. of an important family at Cologne in 1591; d. at Peking, 15 Aug., 1666. He studied at Rome, where he entered the Society of Jesus on 20 Oct., 1611. After his novitiate and some years devoted to philosophy and theology, he asked to be sent on the missions and in April, 1618, he set sail from Lisbon for China. When he reached Macao (1619) the Chinese Christian settlements were still deeply troubled by the war waged against them since 1615 by the high mandarin Kio Shin. Four of the chief missionaries, two of them from Peking, had been expelled and conducted to Macao; the others had only escaped the same fate through the devotion of some Christian mandarins who hid them in their houses. It was only in 1622, when the persecution began to relax, that Schall could penetrate to the interior. He laboured first at Si-ngan-fu in Shen-si. His ministry, which for a long time was difficult and thwarted, had just begun to afford him great consolation when he was summoned to Peking in 1630. He had to replace Father Terrentius (deceased) in the work of reforming the Chinese calendar. The task was far removed from his ordinary duties of the apostolate but it was one on which the future of the mission then depended.
Politically, China is divided into 22 provinces (including Taiwan), five autonomous regions and the three municipalities of Beijing (Peking), Tianjin and Shanghai, which are directly under the central government.[/i]
Over all, do you see how there is kind of temporal/numerological symetry represented here, even down to the strange multiples of one of the ancient days of sunworship, 21, 22 & 23, that you introduce as a modification which was enacted by a european and not a chinese?
Check the religious and national origins.
Sure, all the numbers are not 22 or whatever, ...... but they are always there right in the middle of significant events that relate in some way to esoteric factors. Then of course that unconscious world would not expose itself by being so obvious as to ocasionaly cause all the dates and numbers to fall on the ancient sun numbers, that would violate the 11th commandment.