Step 1 : Introduction to the question " In what culture is a baby considered one year old at the time of birth? "
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While for most people around the world, age at birth is calculated at zero, for the Chinese, being born means automatically turning one. Additionally, another year is added to a Chinese person’s age on his or her first Lunar New Year’s Day. Thus, a Chinese person can be anywhere from one to two years younger, in Western terms, than what their traditional “East Asian age reckoning” would dictate. So, if you have a Chinese friend who says she is 25, for example, she could really be 23 or 24. But it gets more complicated. There are three words for “age” in Chinese: one which refers to the traditional system; one called the modern age, which starts at zero but skips the new year’s addition; and another called the solid age, which counts a person’s age in years from birth.
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