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The first 3 days of Chinese New Year. 3 Taiwan: Lunar New Year / Spring Festival: Chinese New Year's Eve and the first 3 days of Chinese New Year; will be made up on subsequent working days if any of the 4 days fall on Saturday or Sunday. The day before Chinese New Year's Eve is also designated as holiday, but as a bridge holiday, and will be ...
The Lunar New Year is an event celebrated by billions of people across the world on the first new moon of their calendar. Although often referred to as "Lunar New Year" in English, this is a misnomer, as it refers to both celebrations based on a lunar calendar as well as a lunisolar calendar. The Islamic New Year (also called the Hijri New Year ...
The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning festivals; only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year. Both words come from Sino-Vietnamese respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, a Sino-Vietnamese word, 禮會.
Gōng xǐ fā cái (Chinese. Translation: “Wishing you prosperity and wealth.”) Wishing you peace, happiness and luck in the new year. I wish you a happy new year and good health. Hoping ...
15th night of the 7th month (14th in parts of southern China) Sunday, 18 August 2024. Ghost Festival. 中元節 / 中元节. (Zhōng Yuán Jié) Burn fake paper money and make offerings to ancestors and the dead to comfort them in the afterlife and keep them from troubling the living. 15th day of the 8th month.
Chinese New Year's Eve. Chinese New Year's Eve is the day before the Chinese New Year. Celebrating Chinese New Year's Eve has always been a family matter, it is the reunion day for every ethnic Chinese family. It has evolved over a long period of time. The origin of Chinese New Year's Eve can be traced back to 3500 years ago.
Ushering in a new year in the lunar calendar, the new moon on Jan. 21 marks the end of the Year of the Tiger and the beginning of the Year of the Rabbit. Lunar New Year, which falls on Jan. 22 ...
The Vietnamese zodiac ( Vietnamese: Mười hai con giáp) is the traditional Vietnamese classification scheme based on the lunar calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year in a repeating 12-year cycle. The Viet lunar calendar is divided into 60-year cycles known as hồi. Each of these consists of five 12-year ...