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Some folks like #DaddyYu only know their birthday according to the Lunar calendar. He was born in China two days after #LunarNewYear in 1950. When he immigrated to Canada in 1966, (with just $800 to share with his eldest sister), he only knew to fill out his birth date in relation to that year’s #ChineseNewYear. Sure, it’s very possible to back-track, calculate, and then fix upon a Gregorian date; to set apart as “stable” without accounting for the movements of ☀️ 🌙 ⭐️ - posited and prized as reliably repetitive. Still such conversions from Lunar to Gregorian, from then to now, from there to here, even seemingly direct conversions (as scientists and even his kin have tried) could only go amiss through transliteration. Anyway, the #CollisionOfCalendars this #longweekend (including #FamilyDay) resulted in a mass of family & food! . . . #diaspora #ImmigrantStories #ChineseCanadian #ChineseFood Last (for now) @kendalhillsgamefarm chicken #YesBloodInsideBonesOK #FamilyOfChefs #FamilyDinners #TheFolksAreVisiting

.. including pistachios! = 開心果 in Cantonese, word-for-word translation is 'open heart fruit' - to me, when said aloud, sounds like 'happy fruit.' in fact, until seeing the characters written, I thought that it was, and wrote about how my dad looked like his favourite nut when he found out eating them wouldn't dent it his cholesterol - 😅