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The term 春節 (Chūnjié), or Spring Festival, is not usually used as it is more commonly associated with celebrations in China, even though 農曆新年 (Nónglì Xīnnián) and 過年 (Gùonián) are also commonly used there. [2]
Visit, clean, and make offerings at ancestral gravesites, spring outing 105th day after Dongzhi April 5, 2020 Cold Food Festival: 3 (三月) 15th April 7, 2020 [3] God of Medicine's Birthday 保生大帝誕辰 Public holiday in Taiwan: 3 (三月) 23rd April 15, 2020 [4] Matsu's Birthday 媽祖誕辰 Public holiday in Taiwan: 4 (四月) 8th ...
'Spring Festival' is the standard and official term, people in Taiwan typically do not use Spring Festival in daily conversations. Instead, they emphasize the connection to the traditional Chinese calendar by calling it 農曆新年, or simply refer to it as 過年, which is more casual and widely used among families and friends.
A celebration of spring, [9] [10] it falls on the first day of the fifth solar term (also called Qingming) of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This makes it the 15th day after the Spring Equinox, either 4, 5 or 6 April in a given year.
The traditional Chinese calendar, dating back to the Han dynasty, is a lunisolar calendar that blends solar, lunar, and other cycles for social and agricultural purposes. . While modern China primarily uses the Gregorian calendar for official purposes, the traditional calendar remains culturally significa
Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars.Typically, both types of calendar begin with a new moon but, whilst a lunar calendar year has a fixed number (usually twelve) of lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year.
The Republic of China calendar, often shortened to the ROC calendar or the Minguo calendar, is a calendar used in Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, and Matsu.The calendar uses 1912, the year of the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in Nanjing, as the first year.
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