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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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As The New York Times explains, “A solar year—the time it takes Earth to orbit the sun—lasts around 365 days, while a lunar year, or 12 full cycles of the Moon, is roughly 354 days.” As ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
According to Lunar New Year tradition, a big cleanup should be carried out in homes on the 28th day of the last lunar month, which falls on February 7 this year.