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When is the Lunar New Year 2025? The date of Lunar New Year varies from year to year. This year, it begins on Wednesday, January 29, 2025, whereas in 2024, it began in February. Typically, this ...
1 January – New Year's Day; 29 February – Chinese New Year's Eve; 30–31 January – Chinese New Year; 4 April - Qingming Festival; 18 April - Good Friday; 19 April - Holy Saturday; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 5 May - Buddha's Birthday; 31 May - Dragon Boat Festival; 1–2 October – National Day; 7 October – Mid-Autumn Festival
Chinese New Year's Eve is the day before the Chinese New Year. The holiday falls between January 21 and February 20 on the Gregorian calendar. Evolving over a long period of time, it is considered a reunion day for every ethnic Chinese family. The origin of Chinese New Year's Eve can be traced back to 3500 years ago.
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 Lam Tsuen Wishing Trees (Chinese: 林村許願樹; Jyutping: lam4 cyun1 heoi2 jyun6 syu6) are a popular shrine in Hong Kong located near the Tin Hau Temple in Fong Ma Po Village, Lam Tsuen. The temple was built around 1768 [ 1 ] or 1771, [ 2 ] during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing dynasty (1644–1912).
In Japan, Renri is called Jinjitsu (人日, jinjitsu).It is one of the five seasonal festivals (五節句, gosekku).It is celebrated on January 7. It is also known as Nanakusa no sekku (七草の節句, nanakusa no sekku), "the feast of seven herbs", from the custom of eating seven-herb kayu (七草粥, nanakusa-gayu) to ensure good health for the coming year.
1 January, Wednesday – New Year's Day; 29 January, Wednesday – Lunar New Year's Day; 30 January, Thursday – The second day of Lunar New Year; 31 January, Friday – The third day of Lunar New Year; 4 April, Friday – Ching Ming Festival; 18 April, Friday – Good Friday; 19 April, Saturday – The day following Good Friday
The two-week Chinese New Year Festival and Parade [86], sponsored by Southwest Airlines in recent years, includes two fairs, the Chinese New Year Flower Fair and Chinatown Community Street Fair, the Miss Chinatown USA pageant, and concludes with the parade. Miss Chinatown USA is traditionally present at the parade, as is a Golden Dragon which ...