New Year In Chinese Calendar

In general the chinese new year starts anytime between the end of january and mid february.

New year in chinese calendar. In leap years chinese new year day will instead jump 18 19 or 20 days ahead to continue the pattern. This year s animal sign is the rat from 2020 01 25 to 2021 02 11. Chinese new year calendar the coming chinese new year is 2021 02 12 which is 79 days away.

According to this date of chinese new year known as. The traditional chinese agricultural calendar is primarily lunar in that the lunar cycle a lunation between new moons is a principal part of the calendar. 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. Chinese new year s eve january 24 2020 is the main start of the chinese new year calendar period for most chinese people. This is chinese calendar.

The first rule of thumb is that chinese new year should be the new moon closest to the beginning of spring in the northern hemisphere known as lìchūn. If it does a leap month is slotted in. This cycle averages 29 53 days but can vary by several hours for any given time of the year.

Starting january 25 2020 it is the year of the rat as per the chinese calendar. Chinese new year or spring festival in modern mainland china is china s most important traditional festival and is celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar chinese calendar which consists of both gregorian and lunar solar calendar systems. The dates change every year because the festival is based on the chinese lunar calendar.

The 15 th and last day of the festival is the lantern festival. Lunar calendar ignores the sun and bases on the moon position. The precise date is the second new moon after the december solstice december 21 each year the date is pushed back by 10 11 or even 12 days compared to the previous year.