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As in many other calendars, the New Year was based on the northern hemisphere vernal equinox (the beginning of spring). However, the Hindu calendar year was based on the sidereal year (i.e. the movement of the sun relative to the stars), while the Western Gregorian calendar is based on the tropical year (the cycle of seasons).
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars.Typically, both types of calendar begin with a new moon but, whilst a lunar calendar year has a fixed number (usually twelve) of lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year.
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A woman carries a section of a dragon in February 2024 during a Chinese dragon dance at a Lunar New Year Festival in Austin, Texas. The Year of the Snake. Here's your guide to the Lunar New Year
How long does the Chinese New Year last? Chinese New Year typically lasts about 15 days. However, a few days before and after are also often used for celebrations. Lunar New Year 2024 animal. In ...
Dragon and lion dancers perform amidst exploding firecrackers in front of a business establishment in celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year, Saturday, Jan. 28, 2017, in the Chinatown area of ...
The classic Metonic cycle can be reproduced by assigning an initial epact value of 1 to the last year of the cycle and incrementing by 11 each year. Between the last year of one cycle and the first year of the next the increment is 12 – the saltus lunae (Latin for 'leap of the moon') – which causes the epacts to repeat every 19 years. When ...
Lunar New Year — which includes Chinese New Year, Seollal in Korea, Tet in Vietnam and more — will begin Feb. 10, kicking off more than two weeks of festivities, customs and plenty of feasts.