The traditional year seemed like long enough to mourn.
In the literature around the festival, the song of the bird is regarded as heralding the traditional new year.
Instead, the state is issuing permits for one year - rather than the traditional four years - to give officials time to consider the issue.
For farming communities, the traditional new year is a festival of harvest as well.
There is no law that says a player has to stay in college for the traditional four years.
They were three days into 1951 and these were traditional new year's fare.
The controversy has now subsided and the official celebrations during the traditional new year in April revived.
She entered the traditional "year of mourning" for her husband, with the hidden desire never to remarry.
Blurring the traditional academic year, which few other major business schools have done, has helped encourage more applications.
Slightly more than half of the city's high-school students are not graduting in the traditional four years.