Lunar New Year

This article is about the family of festivals worldwide. For specific festivals, see § Celebrations by region. For the Chinese celebration in particular, see Chinese New Year.

Lunar New Year
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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.

The better-known celebrations include new years based on the (lunisolar) Chinese calendar and Tibetan calendar of East Asia;[1][2][3] the (lunisolar) Buddhist and Hindu calendars of Southeast and South Asia; and the (lunar) Islamic calendar and the (lunisolar) Jewish calendar that originated in the Middle East. The determination of the first month of a new lunar or lunisolar year varies by culture.

  1. ^ Huang, Grace (5 February 2019). "Lunar New Year: 11 things to know". CNN.
  2. ^ "The Lunar New Year: Rituals and Legends". Asia for Educators, Columbia University.
  3. ^ Wamg, Frances Kai-Hwa (23 January 2017). "10 Lunar New Year facts to help answer your pressing questions". NBC News. Retrieved 14 February 2018.