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Like & subscribe and share the love ❤️🙏👍💖🥳Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. In Chinese, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival (traditional Chinese: 春節; simplified Chinese: 春节; pinyin: Chūnjié)[3] as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichun, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Chinese New Year.[4] Marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, observances traditionally take place from 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 first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February.[note 1]

Chinese New Year
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Clockwise from the top: Fireworks over Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, lion dance in Boston Chinatown, red Lanterns on display, dragon dance in San Francisco, red envelopes, firecrackers exploding, spring couplet
Also called
Spring Festival, Lunar New Year
Observed by
Chinese people and Sinophone communities[1]
Type
Cultural
Religious
(Chinese folk religion, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, some Christian communities)
Celebrations
Lion dances, dragon dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives, giving red envelopes, decorating with chunlian couplets
Date
First day of the first month of the Chinese calendar (between 21 January and 20 February)
2022 date
1 February[2]
2023 date
22 January[2]
2024 date
10 February
Frequency
Annual
Related to
Lantern Festival, which concludes the celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Mongolian New Year (Tsagaan Sar), Tibetan New Year (Losar), Japanese New Year (Shōgatsu), Korean New Year (Seollal), Vietnamese New Year (Tết), Indigenous Assamese New Year (Rongali Bihu)
Chinese New Year
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"Chinese New Year" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese characters
Traditional Chinese
春節
Simplified Chinese
春节
Literal meaning
"Spring Festival"
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Chūn jié Bopomofo ㄔㄨㄣ ㄐㄧㄝˊ Wade–Giles Ch'un1 chieh2 IPA [ʈʂʰwə́n tɕjě] Wu Romanization Tshen tsiq Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization Chēun jit Jyutping Ceon1 zit3 IPA [tsʰɵ́n tsīːt̚] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Chhun cheh Tâi-lô Tshun tseh
Agricultural Calendar New Year
Traditional Chinese
農曆新年
Simplified Chinese
农历新年
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin nónglì xīnnián
Traditional Chinese New Year
Traditional Chinese
中國傳統新年
Simplified Chinese
中国传统新年
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngguó chuántǒng xīnnián
Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, and has strongly influenced Lunar New Year celebrations of its 56 ethnic groups, such as the Losar of Tibet (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་), and of China's neighbours, including the Korean New Year (Korean: 설날; RR: Seollal), and the Tết of Vietnam,[6] as well as in Okinawa.[7] It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries that houses significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, especially in Southeast Asia. These include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar,[8] the Philippines,[9] Singapore,[10] Thailand, and Vietnam. It is also prominent beyond Asia, especially in Australia, Canada, Mauritius,[11] New Zealand, Peru,[12] South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as various European The
The largest Chinese New Year parade outside Asia, in Chinatown, Manhattan.

Traditional paper cutting with the character for spring (春)

Chinese New Year decorations along New Bridge Road in Singapore.

Chinese New Year eve in Meizhou on 8 February 2005.
The Chinese calendar defines the lunar month containing the winter solstice as the eleventh month, meaning that Chinese New Year usually falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice (rarely the third if an intercalary month intervenes).[18] In more than 96 percent of the years, Chinese New Year's Day is the closest date to a new moon to lichun (Chinese: 立春; "start of spring") on 4 or 5 February, and the first new moon after dahan (Chinese: 大寒; "major cold"). In the Gregorian calendar, the Chinese New Year begins at the new moon that falls between 21 January and 20 February.[19]

Gregorian Date Animal Day of the week
2022 1 Feb Tiger Tuesday
2023 22 Jan Rabbit Sunday
2024 10 Feb Dragon Saturday
2025 29 Jan Snake Wednesday
2026 17 Feb Horse Tuesday
2027 6 Feb Goat