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  2. Chinese New Year - Wikipedia

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    Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring , this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve (the evening preceding the first day of the year) to the Lantern ...

  3. Lunar New Year - Wikipedia

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    Chinese New Year is the grandest ancient traditional festival in China, commonly known as "Guo Nian". This festival means the beginning of spring and the arrival of the new year. The customs of Chinese New Year include sticking Spring Festival couplets, buying New Year's goods, and having family dinner together.

  4. Chinese New Year's Eve - Wikipedia

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    Since more and more Chinese families could afford television from 1980s, the spring festival gala has been institutionalised as a crucial practice of Chinese New Year's Eve, every family member sits in front of the TV, watching spring festival gala together. The spring festival gala will broadcast until midnight, everyone in front of the ...

  5. Spring Festival - Wikipedia

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    Spring Festival may refer to: Chinese New Year, as it is referred to in China; Holi, a spring festival in India; Kakava, a spring festival of the Romani people in Turkey; Nowruz, an Iranian festival that occurs on the first day of spring; Tết, a festival in Vietnam; Spring Day, a holiday observed in several countries; The Spring Festival, a ...

  6. What is May Day? Why the spring holiday is celebrated on the ...

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    Interestingly, the spring festival holiday actually has its origins in paganism, a fact that is unbeknownst to many raising a glass on May 1. Before you start twirling around the maypole, keep ...

  7. Setsubun - Wikipedia

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    Celebrities throw roasted beans in Ikuta Shrine, Kobe Kimpusen-ji. Setsubun is the day before the beginning of spring in the old calendar in Japan. [1] [2] The name literally means 'seasonal division', referring to the day just before the first day of spring in the traditional calendar, known as Setsubun; though previously referring to a wider range of possible dates, Setsubun is now typically ...

  8. Spring is here! And here are 11 reasons why you should savor ...

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    There's nothing better than watching your days become colorful and lively, especially after a gray and dreary winter

  9. Tết - Wikipedia

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    Tết is generally celebrated on the same day as Chinese New Year (also called Spring Festival), with the one-hour time difference between Vietnam and China resulting in the new moon occurring on different days. Rarely, the dates of Vietnamese and Chinese Lunar New Year can differ as such in 1943, when Vietnam celebrated Lunar New Year, one ...