Now I know that in China, a person’s age starts at the (estimated?) conception date, so do they celebrate birthdays? If they do, does that mean you’re just celebrating your birth, or do they wait aprox. 3 months and celebrate their conception date and the fact that your age goes up 1?
What’s disturbing is that I know the conception date of a friend of mine. Whats disturbing is his mother told me. What’s more disturbing is he was right there when his mother was telling his girlfriend this. And that was when we all found out for the first time (him included).
I was disturbed. He must’ve been freekin’ disturbed out of his mind.
“Must have been that night we saw Superman.”
I remember being told in grade school that when a Chinese baby is born it is already condiered 1 years old. 'course, I went to grade school in the early 60’s. I could go on and on about some of the other b.s. they told us.
I specificly remember the day our oldest was concieved. I even remeber the conversation afterwords. “Ugh. It broke. Good thing you put that foam in!” “I didn’t put the foam in. I hate putting that stuff in”. “what’s the matter?” “I feel sick”. :smack:
Our counting and numbering system is pretty confusing because we start counting from 0 or 1 depending on the circumstances. So, we call this the 21st century although we have only completed 20 centuries. There was no century zero. so, when a kid is for us 4 years old, we say he is in the 5th year of his life. The day after I was born I was already in my first year of life. Just two different ways of looking at things.
But Beltane isn’t til thursday…
In much of Europe, the New Year began on Conception (March 25), so March 24, 1117, would be followed by March 25, 1118.
Koreans celebrate the 100th day of a baby’s life. 100 days + 9 months = roughly one year.
True, but there’s more to it than that.
Ever since Roman times, the ‘people on the street’ have been considering January to be the ‘first month’, although officially the year did indeed change on the day of conception. Some people even changed year at christmas. One sometimes talks about “Anno Domini Conceptio” or “Anno Domini Incorporatio” respectively. (But there were others as well, for a list, look at the Calendar FAQ.
Since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar, it is standard practice to use Jan1 as a switchover date. In an attempt to connect this to Christian belief, it has been suggested to call it 'Anno Domini Circumcisio", to commemorate what happened to that little jewish boy some 2000 years ago on that day. (Or on a nearby day.)
[note, the latin above is probably a bit off.]
Well I and my brother were both concieved on valentines day… my other brother on my parents wedding anniversary. Amazing what you can discover by counting back 40 weeks from your date of birth.
“Suggested”?
The Circumcision has been a holiday on the Orthodox Church’s calendar for centuries, at the very least.