It is also prominent beyond Asia, especially in Australia, Canada, Mauritius, New Zealand, Peru, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as various European countries. These include Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. It is also celebrated worldwide in regions and countries that houses significant Overseas Chinese or Sinophone populations, especially in Southeast Asia.
Ĭhinese 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, as well as in Okinawa. The first day of Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February. 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.
In Chinese and other East Asian cultures, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival ( simplified Chinese: 春节 traditional Chinese: 春節 pinyin: Chūnjié) 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. "Chinese New Year" in Traditional (top) and Simplified (bottom) Chinese charactersĬhinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar and solar Chinese calendar. 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) Lantern Festival, which concludes the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Lion dances, dragon dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives, giving red envelopes, decorating with chunlian coupletsįirst day of the first month of the Chinese calendar (between 21 January and 20 February) ( Chinese folk religion, Buddhist, Confucian, Taoist, some Christian communities) 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 coupletĬhinese people and Sinophone communities
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