2 days ago · In diaspora communities, particularly in cultural enclaves, Lunar New Year is visibly and joyfully celebrated. In the Chinese zodiac, 2025 is the Year of the Snake. Different countries across Asia celebrate the new year in many ways and may follow a different zodiac. What is the Lunar New Year?

Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars. ... However, they are different from the Chinese lunisolar calendar used in East Asia. The two most common lunar new year celebrations in India are Diwali, and Gudi Padwa/Ugadi/Puthandu. [citation needed] ...

1 day ago · Firecrackers, parades and prayers marked the Lunar New Year as millions around Asia and farther afield celebrated. By KEN MORITSUGU Associated Press. January 29, 2025, 12:54 AM. 1:08.

2 days ago · Lunar New Year traditions vary across and within countries, but similar threads run throughout: family time, rituals for prosperity and to honor ancestors, and marathon feasts.

2 days ago · COVID worries muted Lunar New Year celebrations across Asia, even as increasing vaccination rates raised hopes. Published On 1 Feb 2022 1 Feb 2022. This gallery article has 7 images

1 day ago · The lunar calendar, unlike the Gregorian calendar, uses the phases of the moon to delineate days, weeks and months of the year. A lunar month is the period of time from one new moon to the next ...

The Lunar New Year festival is one of the largest celebrations in Asia. From China and Hong Kong to Vietnam and Singapore, cities turn up the volume with loud and auspicious red decorations ...

Commonly known as the Spring Festival in China, Lunar New Year is a fifteen-day celebration marked by many traditions. At home, families decorate windows with red paper cuttings and adorn doors with couplets expressing auspicious wishes for the new year.

Jan 21, 2025 · Lunar New Year, festival typically celebrated in China and other Asian countries that begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends on the first full moon of the lunar calendar, 15 days later.

Jan 24, 2025 · For Chinese people, Lunar New Year is the Spring Festival, and it’s celebrated widely in Taiwan and across Southeast Asia in countries with large Chinese populations, such as Singapore and Malaysia.