New Year Festival China

Chinese new year public holiday.

New year festival china. Today the 15 day new year festivities are celebrated with a week of vacation in. People born in the years of the ox including 1937 1949 1961 1973 1985 1997 and 2009 will experience their zodiac year of birth ben ming nian. In 2021 chinese new year festival falls on feb.

It is celebrated from the 1st day of the 1st lunar month to the 15th day of the 1st lunar month. Chinese new year traditional chinese. Chinese new year or spring festival 2021 is the year of ox in zodiac which falls on 12nd feb of 2021 lasts 16 days from the eve to lantern festival.

The chinese lantern festival is the last day of the chinese new year spring festival. It s on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the chinese lunar calendar. The final 15th day is called lantern festival.

2021 is a year of the ox according to chinese zodiac. The chinese new year also called spring festival is the most important and widely celebrated festival of all in china. As the chinese calendar is lunisolar the chinese new year is also called the the lunar chinese new year.

Loud noises and bright lights were used to scare the beast away and the chinese new year celebrations were born. It is the year of the ox according to the chinese zodiac which features a 12 year cycle with each year represented by a specific animal. In china new year celebrations are synonymous with spring festival 春节 or chūn jié which is typically a week long celebration.

The belief is that the loud noise of the firecrackers serves to scare nian the lion like monster who legend says rose from the sea for a feast of human flesh on the new year. Nónglì xīn nián zhōngguó xīn nián is the chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional chinese calendar the festival is commonly referred to as the spring festival traditional chinese. In folk custom the new year celebrating starts from the laba festival the 12th day of the 12th lunar month or little year the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month to the lantern festival the 15th day of the first lunar month.