The Lunar New Year begins on January 29, and communities throughout the US and worldwide hold celebrations.
The most important holiday in China – Lunar New Year is also widely celebrated in South Korea, Vietnam and other countries where Chinese residents make up considerable parts of the national population, In the hall to the National Museum of Asian Art.
In the Chinese Zodiac, each new year, according to the lunar calendar, is associated with one of 12 animals, and 2025 celebrates the year of snake. Different regions of Asia may not monitor the same zodiac observed in China, and many Asian Americans and the Pacific Islands do not observe the Chinese zodiac, said the Art Museum.
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What is the Lunar New Year?
The Lunar New Year starts with the first moon of the lunar calendar and continues through the first moon, which falls after 15 days.
Usually, the new moon occurs at some point between mid-January to the beginning of February-that's the beginning of the new year begins in different days depending on the year.
Each year, the lunar cycle is associated with a particular animal, like ox, a tiger, a rabbit or, as it was last year, a dragon. Year snake is a period of transformation, self -analysis and growth, In the hall to the Chinese Institute.
The lunar calendar, unlike the Gregorian calendar, uses the moon's phases to outline days, weeks and months of the year. The lunar month is a period of time from one month to the next – about 29.5 days – so the lunar calendar does not correspond to the fact that most months covers 30 or 31 days.
The Chinese government Officially accepted sunny Gregorian calendar More than a century ago, align with the rest of the world. Chinese communities have since marked as the beginning of the Gregorian year On January 1, and then the Lunar New Year, a reflection of cultural roots, a few weeks.
The Lunar New Year is also known as the spring festival in China as a nod at the upcoming spring season. In Vietnam, the holiday is known as the Tet, and in Korea it is called a peasant.
How to celebrate Lunar New Year
Honored after 15 days of cultural festivities, lunar New Year's events are often focused on different types of art and kitchens that can enjoy at home and public forums. Experts say the focus in the Munic New Year celebration is to unite families.
Mario Patsyka, Professor of Buddhist Studies and Chinese Religions at Florida University, who wrote about New Year's Lunar celebrations Conversation Last year, the festive traditions said, as a rule, provides for cleaning and decorating at home, shopping for gifts and cooking for family gatherings as a traditional dinner that takes place on the eve of the New Year.
“Many dishes are given a symbolic meaning,” Pocheski writes. “For example, the dumplings give a form of gold bullion to cause happiness.”
The exchange of red envelopes that contain money is another popular custom that is done every month New Year. The red color of the envelopes is noticeably decorating the decoration for the holiday and is a well -being and happiness, Pocheski said, adding that the older family members usually give them young members.
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Tips, carnivals and meetings with fireworks, dances and other cultural performances are often the main festivities of the moon New Year's years, as individual residences, shops and markets are decorated with lanterns or dragons made from red paper in honor of the holiday.
In Beijing, crowds of people filled the park for the “Temple Fair” on Wednesday, with some calls and throwing coins in a container similar to the gold grates, the Associated Press reports.
In Malaysia, Hayers in the New Year called firecrackers in Kuala Lumpur, the capital, while the Russians cheered on the musical procession in Moscow on Tuesday night, which started the 10-day lunar festival of the New Year, the AP reports.
One of the many US cities, which paid tribute to the holiday, has started the lunar New Year of the distribution of traditional cuisine and goods.
“To celebrate the cultural side, celebration of a simple greetings in the new year, a bright year full of success and change,” said Mimi Luong, co-owner of the Denver Truong Souvenir Shop CBS News Colorado This week's celebration of her family and the public preservation of the store.
“Every year we celebrate the home decoration with a lot of red and gold, and eat a long noodle so that we can have a long life and dumplings so that we can have wealth,” Luong said.
New Year's lunar celebrations are traditionally ends at a lantern festival, a large -scale procession of lights held everywhere With Zigung, Chinaby Franklin area in Philadelphia.