Chinese New Year |
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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) |
Significance |
Commemoration of the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar |
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 lunar month |
2022 date |
1 February |
2023 date |
22 January |
2024 date |
10 February |
Frequency |
Annual |
Related to |
Lantern Festival 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) |