Chinese New Year
Also called | Lunar New Year, Spring Festival
Observed by | Ethnic Chinese and non-Chinese people worldwide
Type | Cultural Religious (Chinese folk religion, Buddhist, Confucian, Daoist)
Celebrations | Lion dances, Mongolian New Year dragon dances, fireworks, family gathering, family meal, visiting friends and relatives, giving red envelopes, decorating with chunlian couplets
Date | First day of the first month of the Chinese calendar (between 21 January and 20 February)
2018 date | Friday, 16 February, Dog
2019 date | Tuesday, 5 February, Pig
2020 date | Saturday, 25 January, Rat
2021 date | Friday, 12 February, Ox
Frequency | Annual
Related to | Lantern Festival, which concludes the celebration of the Chinese New Year. Mongol New Year (Tsagaan Sar), Tibetan New Year (Losar), Japanese New Year (Shōgatsu), Korean New Year (Seollal), Vietnamese New Year (Tết)