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Chinese New Year begins with a reunion dinner on New Year’s Eve that gathers family from far and wide, much in the same way Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. During the two weeks of celebration that follow, the feasting continues as friends and family share good tidings for the year ahead. Pre-Chinese New Year Preparations and Activities (Jan. 7–Feb. 12, 2025) Jan. 7, 2025: Laba Festival. Some Chinese start to celebrate and prepare for Chinese New Year as early as day 8 of the 12 th month of the lunar calendar. One of the people behind the popular food blog and cookbook The Woks of Life, Leung found when she emigrated from China as a teenager that Chinese immigrants didn’t celebrate Lunar New Year in a New Delhi: On Jan. 29, Asian American communities around the U.S. will ring in the Year of the Snake with community carnivals, family gatherings, parades, traditional food, fireworks and other festivities. In many Asian countries, it is a festival that is celebrated for several days. In diaspora Similar to Thanksgiving and Christmas, “Chinese New Year is a holiday for people to get together with family members, to celebrate the spring and the start of the new year,” Leung says. More Chinese New Year, also called Lunar New Year or the Chinese Spring Festival, holds the most significant position among all Chinese festivals and holidays. It lasts for the first fifteen days of the Chinese lunar calendar, which on the Western calendar begins sometime between January 21 and February 21, varying from year to year. Here are a few ways Americans will join billions of people worldwide in celebrating the Lunar New Year: Family dinners for good luck (© Wandita Yudistira/Shutterstock.com) Many dishes commonly served at Lunar New Year gatherings are believed to bring good luck, such as a whole fish, signifying an abundance of seafood for the year. Taste of Home‘s Justin Young shares how his Chinese American family celebrates the new year. He advises, “Take everything in! Chinese New Year is more than just a night, it actually lasts 15 days and there are so many different things to do, traditions to follow and foods to eat.” Here’s how to celebrate Chinese New Year. In 2025, the Chinese New Year, also called Lunar New Year, falls on January 29, though many people who celebrate the Asian holiday start preparing about two weeks beforehand. Throughout Colorado, organizations and communities host Lunar New Year celebrations to honor America’s rich immigrant history and to increase cultural awareness and Some Indigenous people also celebrate Lunar New Year this time of year, including members of Mexico’s Purepecha Indigenous group. How do diaspora communities celebrate? Members of Asian American communities around the U.S. also organize parades, carnivals and festivities around the Lunar New Year featuring lion and dragon dances, fireworks She said that some of the common Lunar New Year practices among these different clans include a Lunar New Year’s Eve family reunion house and no sweeping of the house for three days. There are, of course, plenty of Lunar New Year snacks, including mandarin oranges for luck. For many Chinese American children, Lunar New Year is a way to understand the traditions of their parents and ancestors that precede them. Like so many holidays, its celebration culminates in a feast table laden with plates of foods prepared specially for the day and shared with family. Lunar New Year marks the beginning of the calendar year for cultures whose months are moon-cycles and notes the transition between different zodiac signs. Celebrations in 2022 will last from February 1st to February 15th. While Lunar New Year is often referred to as Chinese New Year, it is important to note that Non-Chinese cultures that This day is also known as 除夕 (chú xī) - New Year's Eve. The Chinese New Year technically begins on 初一 (chū yī) - the first day of the lunar year - and doesn't come to a close until 元宵节 (yuán xiāo jié) - the fifteenth day, also known as the Lantern Festival. That's fifteen whole days of celebration, so you could definitely Travelling instead of staying at home to celebrate Chinese New Year has become more popular during the past few years. With the rapid development of transportation, especially high-speed railways and airways, it’s more convenient for Chinese to travel during the 7-day holiday, which provides a good opportunity for people to relax and take a 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 M ost people celebrate the new year on Jan. 1. My traditional Chinese family doesn’t officially celebrate the new year until Chinese New Year rolls around (this year it falls on Feb. 1). As a The New Year is a celebration in many other cultures too, although it does not always take place at the same time. More on New Year Traditions. Voice of America – New Year’s Resolutions; Voice of America – New Year’s Traditions – (Audio) How do people celebrate the New Year where you live? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Vietnamese New Year or Vietnamese Lunar New Year is called Tết or Tết Nguyên Đán or also Tết Âm Lịch in Vietnamese. It’s the most important event of the year in Vietnam. If you are new to Tết, you can have a look at my previous article to better understand what is Tet and why it’s so important to Vietnamese people .
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