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In Singapore, the Chinese New Year is celebrated primarily by Chinese Singaporeans, or members of the Chinese diaspora located there, who make up over 75% of Singapore's population. The holiday is the start of a new year based on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
Chinese New Year is observed as a public holiday in the provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala, Satun and Songkhla. For the year 2021 (one year only) the government declared Chinese New Year a government holiday. It applied mostly to civil servants.
The Chinese New Year begins Saturday, February 10, 2024, marking the end of the Year of the Rabbit, and the beginning of the Year of the Dragon. Also known as the Lunar New Year or the...
Across Asia and the Asian diaspora, Lunar New Year, also commonly known as Chinese New Year, is the most widely celebrated and most important holiday.
According to Chinese mythology, the nian lives under the sea or in the mountains. The Chinese character nian more usually means "year" or "new year". The earliest written sources that refer to the nian as a creature date to the early 20th century.
That's why you also see it called Chinese New Year. It starts with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends on the first full moon, about 15 days later. The lunar calendar is based...
This Chinese calendar correspondence table shows the stem/branch year names, correspondences to the Western calendar, and other related information for the current, 79th Sexagenary cycle of the Chinese calendar based on the 2697 BC epoch or the 78th cycle if using the 2637 BC epoch.
The Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, celebration is the largest and most important in Chinese culture, usually running for 15 days.
Chinese lunar coins. In 1981, China began minting coins to commemorate the Chinese New Year. The Chinese lunar series consist of gold, silver, and platinum coins in a variety of sizes, denominations, and shapes.
Nothing cemented the Chinese dragon’s might better than when it became a symbol of the empire. The mythical Yellow Emperor, a legendary sovereign, is said to have been fetched by a Chinese ...