The chinese new year or spring festival has more than 4 000 years of history and is the longest holiday of the year in the 21st century the national holiday begins on the first of the lunar calendar and lasts until the 15th of the first month.
Lunar calendar 2021 chinese new year.
Tied to the chinese lunar calendar the holiday was traditionally a time to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors.
The holiday celebrates the start of the new year according to the chinese calendar and falls in january or february according to the gregorian calendar.
It is also known as the lunar new year or the spring festival.
Lunar new year runs officially for three days and even four if the holiday coincides with a sunday.
This year the animal sign is the ox.
Chinese new year is the first day of the new year in the chinese lunisolar calendar chinese traditional calendar.
Chinese new year calendar 1930 2030.
In china all stores are closed during the first.
Unofficially it is celebrated for up to two weeks.
Chinese new year for the year 2021 is celebrated observed on friday february 12.
In 2021 chinese new year begins on february 12th and ends february 26th with the lantern festival.
Chinese new year date is different every year.
In 2021 chinese new year will begin on february 12.