Saturday, January 25th is day number 25 of the 2020 calendar year with -3 years, -2 months, -7 days until Chinese New Year 2020. Many of the local communities around the world are called Chinatown like in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Sydney. Many countries around the world that have ethnic Chinese people celebrate Chinese New Year including America, Canada, many European countries, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippine’s and more. The Gregorian calendar, which is the most widely used calendar in the world today uses the location of the sun relative to the earth to determine the dates on the calendar. The lunisolar calendar uses the location of the sun and the moon relative to the earth to determine dates on the calendar. The holiday/festival lasts 16 days from New Year’s Eve to the 15th day of the New Year which also happens to be the Lantern Festival. The first day of the festival begins on the New Moon sometime each year between January 21st and February 20th. It is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. This year the animal sign is the Rat.Ĭhinese New Year is the first day of the New Year in the Chinese lunisolar calendar (Chinese traditional calendar). On this night colourful lanterns light up the houses, and traditional foods such as yuanxiao (sticky rice balls that symbolize family unity), fagao (prosperity cake), and yusheng (raw fish and vegetable salad) are served.Chinese New Year for the year 2020 is celebrated/ observed on Saturday, January 25. Dances and fireworks are prevalent throughout the holidays, culminating in the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated on the last day of the New Year’s celebrations. Also on New Year’s day, family members receive red envelopes ( lai see) containing small amounts of money. Approximately 10 days before the beginning of the new lunar year, houses are thoroughly cleaned to remove any bad luck that might be lingering inside, a custom called “sweeping of the grounds.” Traditionally, New Year’s eve and New Year’s day are reserved for family celebrations, including religious ceremonies honouring ancestors. Across the country, the drop in air passengers on the first day of chunyun was 71 compared with last year, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. The lunar calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, so the dates of the holiday vary slightly from year to year, beginning some time between January 21 and February 20 according to Western calendars. Lunar New Year, Chinese Chunjie, Vietnamese Tet, Korean Solnal, Tibetan Losar, also called Spring Festival, festival typically celebrated in China and other Asian countries that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends on the first full moon of the lunar calendar, 15 days later. The origin and traditions of the Lunar New Year, explained See all videos for this article
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