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Japan's never been a vassal but you can correct me if I'm wrong on that part.
You're so used to seeing it through the eyes of a statist that you can't even fathom that people celebrating their new year comes before some Chinese officials compiled the calendar. Is the event in question the calendar or the celebration? You're purposefully misconstruing the argument as if it's about the calendar, not the celebration that indigenous people do in Asia as you are so removed from the people that you cannot even see this point.
Ethnic Koreans in China would probably be offended if you told them that they're actually celebrating a different New Years than everyone else.
Through personal relations to ethnically Yanbian Korean Chinese people, I can tell you that it is false. You keep talking about some calendar system as if that is what marks holidays, and you're so far as to gone to claim now that Koreans celebrate Chinese new year and that Vietnamese Tet has origins in different system of calendar measurement instead of people celebrating their new year the way they always did. Are you even listening to yourself? So by your standards, if Occupied Korea measures their own calendar, it's suddenly a different holiday? You're talking nonsense.
You certainly have one of the strangest takes I've ever seen a person make.
Don't pass off your granddad's lived experience off as your own lol. It doesn't do anything to strengthen your argument besides making you look cringe in an effort to look authentic.
By your standards, Shogatsu is a different festival now that the date changed from the lunisolar calendar to the Gregorian. Obviously it's the same holiday tradition that is celebrated on a different date! I don't see how you're being so obstinate when it is crystal clear. People are not celebrating some calendar date, they are celebrating their traditional new year celebration that has been practiced for more than a millenia.