Lunar New Year

culture-traditions

Lunar New Year is an East and Southeast Asian festival that marks the start of a new lunisolar year, typically falling between late January and mid-February. It is celebrated by...

holidays

The celebration of Lunar New Year is a centuries rooted festival observed across East and Southeast Asia and in diaspora communities worldwide. Marking the start of a new luniso...

culture-tradition

Lunar New Year 2010 marked the beginning of the Year of the Tiger, the third animal in the 12-year zodiac cycle. In East and Southeast Asian traditions, this shift is tied to th...

culture

Lunar New Year 1975 marks the start of the Year of the Hare, falling on February 11, 1975, in most East Asian lunisolar calendars. This profile explains the zodiac sign, month-b...

cultural-traditions

Several Asian countries celebrate Lunar New Year, a festival tied to the traditional lunisolar calendar. The most widely observed celebrations occur in China, Vietnam, Korea, Mo...

culture-tradition

Chinese New Year 2014 marked the start of the Year of the Horse, a 15-day celebration rooted in lunar calendar tradition rather than a fixed Gregorian date. The holiday is timed...

culture-calendar

The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, meaning it follows the moon and also aligns with the solar year. Each year is assigned one of 12 zodiac animals in a repeating cycle: Rat, Ox,...

culture-tradition

Lunar New Year is an annual festival marking the start of a new lunisolar calendar year, observed widely across East and Southeast Asia and in diaspora communities worldwide. It...

chinese-zodiac

Today is the Year of the Dragon in the Chinese zodiac; the current 12-year cycle began on 2023-01-22, when the Gregorian calendar year 2023 became the Year of the Rabbit’s suc...

cultural-holidays

Chinese Lunar New Year 2019 marked the start of the Year of the Pig on Tuesday, 5 February 2019. Also called Spring Festival or Chunjie, it was the most important traditional ho...