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Chinese New Year's Eve and the first 3 days of Chinese New Year; will be made up on subsequent working days if any of the 4 days fall on Saturday or Sunday. The day before Chinese New Year's Eve is also designated as holiday, but as a bridge holiday, and will be made up on an earlier or later Saturday.
Here's everything to know about the 2025 Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake. ... the Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based the moon's 12 phases. Each phase cycle spans approximately ...
8 June 2025 [5] Kuan Kung's Birthday and Cheng Huang's Birthday 關公誕辰: Celebrated in Taiwan: 6 (六月) 6th 30 June 2025 Double Sixth Festival: 六月六 / 天贶节: 6 (六月) 24th or 25th 18 July 2025 – 20 July 2025 Torch Festival: 火把节: 7 (七月) 7th 29 August 2025 Qixi Festival (The Night of Sevens, Magpie Festival, Chinese ...
In 1982, to celebrate its 150th anniversary, Jardine Matheson sponsored the first fireworks display event. The event received good public response. Since then, it became an annual event of Chinese New Year as a greeting to Hong Kong citizens. The fireworks were cancelled from 2020 to 2023 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The 2024 fireworks are ...
Yes! Those who are born in a Snake year (1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013) "will experience the most transformative year with major life changes," Iskandar predicts.
The Asian Art Museum of San Francisco holds special events to celebrate the Chinese New Year. They offer Family Fun Days which include activities such as storytelling, gallery activities, and art projects themed to the year's Chinese zodiac animal. Families can learn about Chinese symbols, flowers, and plants through activities.
The Chinese lunar new year is here, and 2025 marks the year of the snake. Over 3,500 years old, the Chinese lunar cycle lasts 12 years and is represented by a different animal each 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.