Chinese New Year Calendar

The coming chinese new year is 2021 02 12 which is 137 days away.

Chinese new year calendar.

It is also known as the spring festival or the lunar new year. Chinese new year day 1 of the lunar year which is somewhere in the period january 21 to february 20. Calculating chinese new year. As an official public holiday chinese people can get seven days absence from work from february 11th to 17th.

Start of spring day 1 of the solar year the first day of the first solar term in the traditional chinese solar calendar which falls in the period february 3 5. Most chinese people use lunar new year as the start of the zodiac year. You probably know there are 12 chinese zodiac animals used to represent years 2021 is the year of the ox zodiac signs play an integral part in chinese culture and can be used to determine your fortune for the year marriage compatability career fit best times to have a baby and so much more. Chinese new year date is different every year.

This year s animal sign is the rat from 2020 01 25 to 2021 02 11. 2021 is a year of the ox according to chinese zodiac. Generally speaking it distributes between january 21st and february 22nd lots of people can understand chinese lunar calendar is different from the gregorian calendar so the new year dates on the two calendars are different but how can the chinese new year date itself have a so wide range. The dates of chinese lunar new year vary every year but will fall on a day in january or february.

Every year is represented by a zodiac animal sign. 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 new year calendar. The festival is commonly referred to as the spring festival traditional chinese.

There is an animal representing each year but the year is defined by chinese lunar calendar not the gregorian year you are familiar with from jan. Nónglì xīn nián zhōngguó xīn nián is the chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional chinese calendar or lunar calendar. Chinese new year traditional chinese. 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.

However things are not that easy. Chinese new year is a festive occasion that calls for celebration in many places around the world.