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Lunar New Year 2023 began on January 22, and celebrations end on February 5 with the Lantern Festival. In terms of the Chinese zodiac animal , it’s the Year of the Rabbit.
A lunar year charts 12 complete cycles of the moon and lasts approximately 354 days, as opposed to our western solar year, which lasts 365 days in accordance with the earth’s passage around the sun.
The Mid-Autumn Festival (for other names, see § Etymology) is a harvest festival celebrated in Chinese culture.It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar with a full moon at night, corresponding to mid-September to early October of the Gregorian calendar. [1]
Tết Trung Thu (chữ Hán: 節中秋) is a traditional Vietnamese festival held from the night of the 14th to the end of the 15th of the 8th lunar month (Rằm tháng Tám, chữ Nôm: 𠄻躺渗). Despite its Chinese origin, the festival has recently evolved into a children's festival ( Tết Thiếu Nhi ), [ 2 ] also known as Tết Trông ...
French Jesuits observing an eclipse with King Narai and his court in April 1688, shortly before the Siamese revolution. The periodicity of lunar eclipses been deduced by Neo-Babylonian astronomers in the sixth century BCE [6] and the periodicity of solar eclipses was deduced in first century BCE by Greek astronomers, who developed the Antikythera mechanism [7] and had understood the Sun, Moon ...
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Tsukimi or Otsukimi (お月見), meaning, "moon-viewing", are Japanese festivals honoring the autumn moon, a variant of the Mid-Autumn Festival.The celebration of the full moon typically takes place on the 15th day of the eighth month of the traditional Japanese calendar, known as Jūgoya (十五夜, fifteenth night); [1] the waxing moon is celebrated on the 13th day of the ninth month, known ...
Gaura Parva is a lunar festival. The date of the festival is calculated by the official astrological committee (Panchang Samiti) every year. The occurrence of festival usually falls in the month of either August or September according to Gregorian calendar and either Shrawan or Bhadra month according to Nepali calendar.