Lunar New Year

culture

The Lunar New Year Tiger represents a powerful zodiac sign within the 12-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac, serving as both a calendar marker and a cultural lens for personality...

culture-tradition

Lunar New Year has been celebrated for well over two thousand years, with its earliest documented observances tied to ancient agrarian calendars and imperial rites in China. The...

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Chinese New Year 2022 marked the Year of the Tiger, the third animal in the twelve-year Chinese zodiac cycle. This evergreen explainer focuses on the 2022 zodiac animal, its ass...

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Chinese New Year, also called Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is the most important traditional holiday in Chinese cultures. In 2019, the event marked the beginning of the Ye...

culture-and-tradition

Lunar New Year is not a single global date but a moveable festival tied to lunisolar calendars, primarily the Chinese calendar, as well as to Korean, Vietnamese, and other regio...

culture-tradition

The current Chinese zodiac year depends on the East Asian lunisolar calendar, which ties each year to one of 12 animals in a repeating cycle: Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Sna...

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The Year of the Boar refers to one of the 12 zodiac signs in the Chinese zodiac and other East Asian lunisolar calendars. Each year is associated with one of 12 animals, and the...

culture-traditions

Lunar New Year 2026 falls on January 29, ushering in the Year of the Fire Horse. Across Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, and other Lunar New Year traditions, certain customs and sup...

culture-tradition

The year 2023 in the Chinese lunisolar calendar is the Year of the Water Rabbit, beginning on 22 January 2023 and ending on 9 February 2024. In the twelve-year zodiac cycle, the...

culture

Lunar New Year is an annual festival rooted in East and Southeast Asian traditions that honors the start of a new year on a lunisolar calendar. It is a time for family reunions,...