The lunar rooster

February 2005 The new lunisolar year will begin on 9th February 2005 in the Western calendar, under the zodiac sign of the rooster, Yi You in Chinese, Ât Dâu in Vietnamese (hereafter abbreviated as V). For all its rich symbolic significance, the sign is somewhat ambiguous in its prophecy, as the Vietnamese recall that during the Ât Dâu year in 1885, they lost their independence to the French, only to win it back at the end of the cycle, and in 1945, an unprecedented famine unfortunately claim..