American’s mark the end of a year with a birthday. An American is one year old after their first 365 days.
Orientals mark their birth as the beginning of their year number one unlike the western system where age is calculated from the time of birth. … In the traditional Chinese age counting system, your age increases by one year on Chinese New Year and not on the day of your birth. If a Chinese baby is born the day before Chinese New Year they are one. The next day is every Chinese person’s birthday so the two day old infant is now two. The next year, 367 days after being born they are three. The American baby is one. Different ways to calculate the age of a person.
“I sit beside the fire and think
Of all that I have seen
Of meadow flowers and butterflies
In summers that have been
Of yellow leaves and gossamer
In autumns that there were
With morning mist and silver sun
And wind upon my hair
I sit beside the fire and think
Of how the world will be
When winter comes without a spring
That I shall ever see
For still there are so many things
That I have never seen
In every wood in every spring
There is a different green
I sit beside the fire and think
Of people long ago
And people that will see a world
That I shall never know
But all the while I sit and think
Of times there were before
I listen for returning feet
And voices at the door”
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