2/16    Happy Chinese New Year!  -chaos
            \_ Lunar
                \_ A year is a year.  Whether the calendar is solar or lunar
                   based isn't meaningful for the Happy New Year! thing....
                   The Chinese aren't the only people with a lunar calendar.
                   In fact, except for the Roman calendar, I don't know of a
                   calendar making people who didn't have a lunar calendar and
                   the Romans only had one at the start of their decline.
                   Well, I suppose the pre-European South & Central Americans
                   had a really complex calendar system but no one knows how
                   it really worked anymore.
            \_  1. Not all lunar calendar started on the same dayu.
                2. It is technically incorrect to call Chinese calendar, used
                in much of east Asia, a lunar calendar.  It is solar-lunar
                based.
        \_ Gung Hay Fat Choy!
           \_ Who're you calling fat!?!
              \_ You!!!
        \_ varying the length of lunar years to make them approximate
                solar years counts not
                \_ If you lived in a lunar year calendar culture, you would
                   *not* say, "Happy Lunar New Year!" anymore than you would
                   say, "Happy Solar New Year!" living in a solar year
                   \_ speak for yourself
                        \_ I was doing ok speaking for you.
                   calendar culture.  My point being it doesn't matter the
                   type of calendar when wishing one a HNY because the
                   calendar is internally consistent.