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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. It is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture , and has been added to the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list by the United Nations Educational, Scientific ...
Chinese New Year is a celebration based on the ancient Chinese lunar calendar. It typically lasts about 16 days and is a time for honoring deities and ancestors, as well as for hosting family ...
The lunar calendar is based on moon cycles, so the dates of the Lunar New Year celebration can change slightly each year. Here’s everything to know about Lunar New Year 2024. When is Chinese New ...
Date Length (without weekends) [1] English name Chinese name (Simplified) Pinyin Remarks 1 January: 1 day: New Year's Day: 元旦: Yuándàn: 1st day of 1st Lunisolar month: 4 days (Chinese New Year's Eve, 1st, 2nd and 3rd days of 1st Lunisolar month) [1] Spring Festival [a] (aka Chinese New Year) 春节: Chūnjié: Usually occurs in late ...
Chinese lunar date Example Gregorian date (2020–2021) English name Chinese name Remarks Month Day 1 (正月) 1st January 25, 2020 Chinese New Year (Spring Festival) • 農曆新年 / 农历新年 • 春節 / 春节 • 大年初一 Set off fireworks after midnight; visit family members 1 (正月) 7th January 31, 2020 Renri • 人日
Chinese New Year dates. Twelve animal symbols comprise the Chinese zodiac. Here are the animals and which birth years they are associated with: Rat: 1924, 1936, 1948 ...
The traditional Chinese calendar divides a year into 24 solar terms. The first one is known as lichun in Chinese, risshun in Japanese, ipchun in Korean, and lập xuân in Vietnamese. It begins when the Sun reaches the celestial longitude of 315° and ends when it reaches the longitude of 330°. It more often refers in particular to the day ...
Scene of the 2009 Chunyun period inside Beijing West railway station, China. Chunyun (traditional Chinese: 春運; simplified Chinese: 春运; pinyin: Chūnyùn; literally translated as “Spring transportation”), also referred to as the Spring Festival travel rush or the Chunyun period, is a period of travel in China with extremely high traffic load around the time of the Chinese New Year.