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In 2023, we'll be living in the year of the Rabbit, according to the Chinese zodiac. To celebrate, we reveal the Chinese traditions surrounding Lunar New Year.
Based on the Tibetan Lunar Calendar. Losoong falls on the 1st day of the 11th month, when farmers celebrate the harvest. [2]It is a traditional festival of the Bhutias.It is a time when the farmers rejoice and celebrate their harvest.
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.
Sonam Lhosar is a New Year's day festival of the Tamang and Hyolmo people of Nepal as well as Sikkim and Darjeeling regions of India. It falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice which is usually the Magh Sukla Pratipada based on the eastern lunar calendar .
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.
A Chinese temple in the Chinatown area of Yangon, Myanmar, on the first day of the Lunar New Year. (Sai Aung Main/AFP via Getty Images) (AFP via Getty Images) A Chinese Lunar New Year celebration ...
[3] [4] The holiday is a new year's festival, celebrated on the first day of the lunisolar Tibetan calendar, which corresponds to a date in February or March in the Gregorian calendar. [1] In 2024, the new year commenced on 10 February and celebrations ran until the 12th of the same month. It also commenced the Year of the Male Wood Dragon.
Lunar New Year was originally an agricultural holiday marked by the traditional Chinese Lunar Calendar, which is based on the 12 cycles of the moon, that commemorated the end of winter and the ...