Couples shrug off 'widow's year'

Couples shrug off 'widow's year'Many Chinese couples are planning to marry in the 2010 lunar year, despite it being a "widow's year" and considered bad luck for bridesTiffany & Co Necklaces.According to the Chinese lunar calendar, a widow's year is any lunar year that does not have a first day of spring. These years are believed to lack yang or masculine energy to balance the feminine yin.Next year, the year of the tiger, will begin on Feb 14 but the lunar spring will have already begun on Feb 4.To Chinese women, no yang means no husband, which makes a woman a widow.However, Wang Haoyuan, manager of Qianyijia wedding service company, said that many modern couples appeared to not care about this ancient superstition."Less than 10 percent of my customers have moved their wedding day into the current year because of widow's year," Wang said."Now young people get married whenever they like and most of them are not influenced by traditional culture." However, on Wednesday, one of Wang's customers rescheduled his ceremony from March to January."But he only did this because his parents pushed him toWholesale tiffany necklacev. They believe that the widow's year will bring bad luck," Wang said. Wang said 2006 was a very good year for the wedding service industry because of superstitions about golden pig babies.According to ancient Chinese tradition, babies born in the golden pig year - which falls once every 60 years - will have a happy and lucky life.Wang Jiahua, boss of Red Lily wedding service company, said 20 percent of his customers had moved their weddings to December and January because they did not want the bad luck of a widow's year."I don't think the widow's year will ruin my business. I've already got some wedding ceremony bookings for next April and May," Wang said. Tan Jinjin, a 24-year-old woman who has been in a relationship for five years, said she didn't mind getting married next year. "If no one wants to get married in widow's year, I may get cheaper cars, cheaper hotels and a cheaper ceremony, so why not?" Tan saidTiffany Bracelets. Kou Wen, an engineer with the Beijing Planetarium, said that according to the Chinese lunar calendar, a widow's year falls every two or three years.