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Professor Chao Liu — visiting New Mexico State University from Tianjin, China — performs on Saturday a dance called Tai Chi Fun as part of the Lunar New Year Fair celebrating the Year of the Pig.
Lunar New Year 2024 animal. In 2024, it's the Year of the Dragon. A shopper takes a picture in front of lunar new year decorations inside a shopping mall in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tuesday, Jan. 16 ...
In photographer Zhang Xiao’s images of the Shehuo festival, an ancient celebration still observed in parts of northern China during the Lunar New Year, rural life comes alive with something ...
Chinese New Year's Eve. Chinese New Year's Eve is the day before the Chinese New Year. Celebrating Chinese New Year's Eve has always been a family matter, it is the reunion day for every ethnic Chinese family. It has evolved over a long period of time. The origin of Chinese New Year's Eve can be traced back to 3500 years ago.
Thai New Year [1]: 802 [2]: 127 or Songkran [1]: 802 (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์, pronounced [tʰêːt.sā.kāːn sǒŋ.krāːn]), also known as Songkran Festival, [3] Songkran Splendours, [2]: 127 is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran is on 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April.
Vaisakhi coincides with the first day of the solar cycle year, that is the solar New Year or Mesha Sankranti which is also related to other regional new years such as 'Vishu' and 'Puthandu' celebrated in Kerala and Tamil Nadu a day after Vaisakhi. The festivities include fireworks, shopping for new clothes and interesting displays called 'Vishu ...
Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names ), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, observances traditionally take place from Chinese New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of ...
A lunar year charts 12 complete cycles of the moon and lasts approximately 354 days, as opposed to our western solar year, which lasts 365 days in accordance with the earth’s passage around the sun.