Chinese New Year Calendar

In 2021 the chinese new year calendar of events begins on february 11th and ends on february 26th.

Chinese new year calendar. The lunar calendar is associated with the movement of the moon which usually defines traditional festivals like the chinese new year spring festival lantern festival dragon boat festival and mid autumn day. Its common name in china is the spring festival. China public holidays include the new year s day chinese spring festival from lunar new year s eve to the sixth day of the new year qingming festival may day the dragon boat festival mid autumn festival and the national day from oct 1 to oct 7 holidays except the chinese spring festival and national day are usually 3 day holiday that are created by combine the weekends.

The chinese new year also called the spring festival is the longest annual holiday it starts on the first of the lunar calendar and lasts until the 15th day. The coming chinese new year is 2021 02 12 which is 69 days away. Although the chinese new year festival usually falls during the winter months of january and february and even extends into march about one year in six on the gregorian calendar the festival signals the beginning of spring according to the chinese lunar calendar.

This year s animal sign is the rat from 2020 01 25 to 2021 02 11.