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Jan. 23, 2025: House-Cleaning. Beginning on the 24th day of the 12th lunar month Chinese people carry out a thorough 'winter-cleaning' of their houses. This is called "sweeping away the dust", and represents a wish to put away old things, bid farewell to the old year, and welcome in the Lunar New Year.
The first day of the Lunar New Year: Celebrations: fireworks, family gatherings, family meals, visiting friends' homes on the first day of the new year (xông đất), visiting friends and relatives, ancestor veneration, giving red envelopes to children and elderly, and opening a shop. Date: Lunar/Lunisolar New Year's Day: 2023 date: 22 January ...
Feb 1, 2022 · The Lunar New Year celebration is intended to usher in a year of luck and prosperity. It's time to close the chapter on the old one and welcome the year of the tiger. Some believe 2022 will bring ...
Dec 8, 2021 · So Lunar New Year 2025 doesn’t just usher in the Year of the Snake—it also marks the start of the Year of the Wood Snake. People born in 1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001 and 2013 are ...
Lunar New Year 2025. Wed, Jan 29, 2025 – 18 countries. Wed, Jan 29, 2025 / Fri, Feb 7, 2025 – United States. Tue, Jan 28, 2025 – Vietnam. Lunar New Year is the first day of the New Year in the Chinese calendar, which differs from the Gregorian calendar. It is also known as the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year. Every year is represented ...
Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival, is the most important among the traditional Chinese festivals. The origin of the Chinese New Year Festival can be traced back to about 3,500 years ago. Chinese New Year has evolved over a long period of time and its customs have undergone a long development process.
A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon 's phases ( synodic months, lunations ), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based on the solar year. The most widely observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar. [a] A purely lunar calendar is distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose ...
