Chinese new year calendar

Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is the most important festival in China and a major event in some other East Asian countries.

Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar.

Chinese New Year 2025 will fall on Wednesday, January 29th. The date changes every year but is always somewhere in the period from January 21st to February 20th.

It was traditionally a time to honor deities and ancestors, and it has also become a time to feast and visit family members.

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Chinese New Year Traditions and Celebrations

Regional customs and traditions vary widely but share the same theme: seeing out the old year and welcoming in the luck and prosperity of a new year.

The main Chinese New Year activities include

• putting up decorations,
• offering sacrifices to ancestors,
• eating reunion dinner with family on New Year's Eve,
• giving red envelopes and other gifts,
• firecrackers and firewor
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