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Here’s everything to know about Lunar New Year 2024. When is Chinese New Year 2024? Chinese New Year 2024 starts on Feb. 10 and ends on Feb. 24.
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.
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 year, to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year ...
The date of Chinese New Year varies from year to year. This year, the Chinese New Year begins on Saturday, February 10, 2024, whereas in 2023, the Chinese New Year began on January 22.
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.
An epoch is a particular point in time at which a calendar system may use as its initial time reference, allowing for the consecutive numbering of years from a chosen starting year, date, or time. In the Chinese calendar system, examples include the inauguration of Huangdi or the birth of Confucius.
Transposition of historical event dates and possible date conflicts Thomas Jefferson 's tombstone. Written below the epitaph is "Born April 2. 1743. O.S. Died July 4. 1826." Usually, the mapping of New Style dates onto Old Style dates with a start-of-year adjustment works well with little confusion for events before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar. For example, the Battle of ...
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars. Lunar calendars follow the lunar phase while lunisolar calendars follow both the lunar phase and the time of the solar year. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in various ways at diverse dates.