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Celebrations for Chinese New Year, a 16-day affair that begins on Wednesday, Jan 29, 2025, often begin with a dragon dance. In the past, it was a way of asking the dragon gods to give citizens a ...
Lion and Dragon dance troupe performs next to lunar new year decorations with the background of Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, Jan. 18, 2024.
According to Lunar New Year tradition, a big cleanup should be carried out in homes on the 28th day of the last lunar month, which falls on February 7 this year.
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 dragon dance is often performed during Chinese New Year. The Chinese dragon is a symbol of China's culture, and it is believed to bring good luck to people, therefore the longer the dragon is in the dance, the more luck it will bring to the community. [ 1 ]
In June 2015, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared that the Lunar New Year would be made a public school holiday, [171] in September 2023, New York State made Lunar New Year a mandatory public school holiday.
For thousands of years, China observed the Lunar New Year as the beginning of a new year until the government officially switched to the Gregorian calendar in 1912, which commemorates the day on ...
In China, the 15-day celebration kicks off on New Year’s Eve with a family feast called a reunion dinner full of traditional Lunar New Year foods, and typically ends with the Lantern Festival.