The Story of Lunar New Year

A story about the traditions and legends that make up Lunar New Year!  It’s the most popular holiday in Chinese culture.

Lunar New Year is the beginning of a calendar year whose months are moon cycles. Cycles are based on the lunar calendar or lunisolar calendar.

 It is featured in East Asian cultural sphere countries, the Hindu-Buddhist calendars of South and Southeast Asia. The Islamic calendar and the Jewish calendar in the Middle East. It is also celebrated by the indigenous Nisga’a people of Canada.

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