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so i want a calendar for my room, specifically one of those tear away calendars. yknow, the big stack with a page for each day of the year? typically seen in cartoons/movies with time loop plots. Anyways, i've found something strange in my search for one: there's only like 3 different kinds.
those 3 kinds are:
1. >$50 at-a-glance brand
2. Chinese almanac calendars
3. japanese daily calendars
I didn't realize finding a generic cheapo calendar was going to be difficult. the chinese and japanese calendars are cool though!
i can't read them (because im a monolingual bastard), but apparently the chinese calendars have a bunch of luck related stuff on each page, like good and bad activities for each day, horoscope forecast, lucky/unlucky hours for each zodiac, and so on. as well as the date and month of course. it's pretty rad honestly.
The japanese calendars have some similar stuff in them, like lucky/unlucky days, but they also include a lot about japan's traditional calendar which is totally different from the gregorian calendar (ours). Some of them, like the one pictured, also have the moon phases which is neat.
Both the chinese and japanese calendars also use the ink colors for short hand. the exact color seems to vary between brands, but the tendency is for the weekdays to be printed in black, saturdays in blue, and sundays in red. occasionally mondays will have the date number printed in red, with everything else in black. isnt that cool!
in conclusion, im a little torn between getting a chinese or a japanese one. On one hand, the chinese calendars have a bunch of cool little extras that could be interesting to look up each day, and on the other, at one point i was trying to learn japanese and getting a calendar could be an interesting way to get back into it and learn.
thanks for reading, if you got this far. i am probably the only person in the world who cares about this lmao
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the chinese one is awesome!! how come our daily calendars are so empty? :/ :p
ENGELBRUCH
Idk about America but I have a calendar from a Chinese restaurant lol. Also bookstores might be useful for regular calendars!