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Chinese New Year. 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, observances traditionally take place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of ...
The date of the Chinese New Year accords with the patterns of the lunisolar calendar and hence is variable from year to year. The invariant between years is that the winter solstice, Dongzhi is required to be in the eleventh month of the year [ 42 ] This means that Chinese New Year will be on the second new moon after the previous winter ...
The Chinese Lunar New Year falls on Feb. 10 this year, marking the start of the Year of the Dragon, according to the Chinese zodiac. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian) Chinese New Year dates
The ancient Egyptian calendar – a civil calendar – was a solar calendar with a 365-day year. The year consisted of three seasons of 120 days each, plus an intercalary month of five epagomenal days treated as outside of the year proper. Each season was divided into four months of 30 days.
Professor Chao Liu — visiting New Mexico State University from Tianjin, China — performs on Saturday a dance called Tai Chi Fun as part of the Lunar New Year Fair celebrating the Year of the Pig.
The Chinese New Year begins Saturday, February 10, 2024, marking the end of the Year of the Rabbit, and the beginning of the Year of the Dragon. Also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring ...
This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western ( Gregorian) calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th Sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch. Year in cycle. s,b. Gānzhī (干支) Year of the ...
Each lunar year is assigned a spirit animal from the Chinese zodiac, with 2024 marking the Year of the Dragon. Fireworks are lit to banish monsters The Lunar New Year is a season weighted with ...