New Year By Chinese Calendar
Calculating chinese new year.
New year by chinese calendar. As an official public holiday chinese people can get seven days absence from work from february 11th to 17th. Chinese new year s eve january 24 2020 is the main start of the chinese new year calendar period for most chinese people. Chinese new year day 1 of the lunar year which is somewhere in the period january 21 to february 20.
Yet many people hold to the traditions to celebrate the chinese new year. The chinese new year of 2021 falls on february 12th friday and the festival will last to february 26th about 15 days in total. Chinese zodiac years are based on chinese lunar calendar.
Chinese new year calendar from 1930 to 2030 as well as the animal sign and the number of days from today to the next chinese new year. The ancient system dates to the 14 th century bce and records astronomy beyond a purely solar calendar. The chinese gender chart is based on factors including the chinese lunar calendar five elements yin and yang the eight diagrams etc its accuracy is much higher than other free gender prediction tools online but it couldn t be higher than that of the ultrasound scanning.
Start of spring day 1 of the solar year the first day of the first solar term in the traditional chinese solar. Each day of the 15 day long festival has a name and usually an assigned purpose or meaning. This year s animal sign is the rat from 2020 01 25 to 2021 02 11.
Today china has adopted the gregorian calendar for official purposes. The chinese new year is also a celebration that marks the coming of spring and that is why by many chinese it is also referred to as the spring festival. It is a lunisolar system.
Below is a table of all the important dates and their meanings. There are two dates a chinese zodiac year could be said to start on. The 15 th and last day of the festival is the lantern festival.