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Tourists wait to board a train at Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station to return home for Chinese Lunar New Year holiday in Shanghai on Jan 25, 2025. Photo by CFOTO/ Future Publishing via Getty Images. What are the animals of the zodiac? Each year honors an animal based on the Chinese zodiac. The circle of 12 animals — the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig — measure the cycles of time. When is Lunar New Year 2025? This year, Lunar New Year begins Jan. 29. Because the lunar calendar is based on the phases of the moon, the beginning of the year happens on a different day each year. Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, is a major festival celebrated at the beginning of the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Thought to have originated in ancient China around 3,500 years ago, it is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture, marking the end of winter and the beginning of the new year. Lanterns glow at Thean Hou Temple in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during Chinese New Year. Photograph by Amril Izan Imran, Alamy Stock Photo. TRAVEL; Top 10 things to know about Lunar New Year. Over 1 billion people celebrate the holiday, which marks the transition from cold winter to a season of renewal and ushers in one of 12 Chinese zodiac signs. Since the mid-1990s people in China have been given seven consecutive days off work during the Chinese New Year. This week of relaxation has been designated Spring Festival, a term that is sometimes used to refer to the Chinese New Year in general. The origins of the Chinese New Year are steeped in legend. One legend is that thousands of years Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year or Spring Festival 2025 falls on Wednesday, January 29th, 2025. Snake is the new year animal. Learn more about Chinese Lunar New Year traditions, taboos, food, zodiac signs, and greetings. Lunar New Year may be called different names in different East Asian countries and communities, but it is celebrated on the same date (and surrounding days) with similar celebrations. China. In China, Lunar New Year is known as Chinese New Year or in Chinese 'Spring Festival' (Chunjie). The celebrations traditionally last for 16 days, beginning However, in the folk traditional sense, Chinese New Year starts from the Kitchen God Worshiping on the 23rd of the 12th lunar month (or even the Laba Festival), until the 19th of the first lunar month. Origins of Chinese New Year Naming Origin. The name “Spring Festival” literally means a festival celebrating the arrival of spring. The slides explore the history of the Chinese zodiac, New Year customs such as family reunions, festive foods, and iconic decorations like lanterns and red envelopes. With engaging visuals and interactive elements, this presentation will help students gain a deeper understanding and appreciation for Chinese New Year and its rich cultural heritage. If you look up the Wikipedia page for Lunar New Year and compare it to the page for Chinese New Year, the page for Chinese New Year is at least five times longer, despite being the less general event. But generalizing Lunar New Year as Chinese New Year is more than just saying the wrong word and using the wrong name. Heartfelt Wishes for Chinese New Year 2025 Chinese New Year & Lunar 2025 New Year Wishes and Messages: 1. Wishing you lots of happiness and prosperity in this new Year of the Snake. Happy New Year Foster essential reading comprehension skills with this interactive worksheet, perfect for young learners! Designed to make learning engaging and effective. LEGO is back with new sets celebrating Chinese New Year in 2022, and I’m here to bring you an early review of 80108 Lunar New Year Celebrations, The new LEGO Chinese New Year sets will be available globally on 1 January 2022, but the UK, Europe and Asia get them a little earlier on 26 December 2021, and they’re available on LEGO.com, your 29 reviews and 394 photos of CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL "It's utterly cool to be here close to this time of year. The streets are just bustling with activity and vendors everywhere are selling Chinese New Year baubles depicting auspicious messages for the coming year (which is the Year of the Dog). Author-illustrator Karen Katz's My First Chinese New Year presents a warm and lively introduction to a special holiday that will make even the youngest reader want to start a Chinese New Year tradition! Hooray! Hooray! Soon it will be Chinese New Year. Chinese New Year is a time of new beginnings. An editable Google Slides assembly presentation that explores Chinese New Year, perfect for engaging KS1 and KS2 students. This comprehensive resource includes detailed notes for each slide, making it easy for teachers to deliver an informative and interactive assembly. “Ruby's Chinese New Year” is a delightful story about a young girl's journey to her grandmother's house to celebrate Lunar New Year. Ruby usually spends Lunar New Year with her grandmother, but this year her grandmother is unable to travel. So, Ruby decides to go to her grandmother instead – and take her a special gift!
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