Chinese New Year Week

Festivities occur not just in china but also singapore malaysia and taiwan as well as in cities with chinese communities across the world.

Chinese new year week. Chinese new year is the first day of the new year in the chinese lunisolar calendar chinese traditional calendar. As an official public holiday chinese people can get seven days absence from work from february 11th to 17th. Spring festival golden week holiday.

The calendar is also used in countries that have been influenced by or have relations with china such as korea japan and vietnam though occasionally the date celebrated may differ by one day or even one moon cycle due to using a meridian based on a different capital city in a different time zone or different. Though china has a day off on january 1 and some fireworks are let off then most attention is focused on the traditional date of new year according to china s lunar calendar. A whole chicken eaten during the chinese new year season symbolizes family togetherness and uncut noodles represent a long life.

Chinese have a different traditional date for new year. Chinese new year is never on january 1. When is chinese new year celebrated.

What s lucky in the year of the ox. Chinese new year is celebrated by more than 20 of the world and is the most important holiday in china. The chinese new year of 2021 falls on february 12th friday and the festival will last to february 26th about 15 days in total.

Celebrate the year of the rat and experience the sights sounds and tastes of the 30th annual phoenix chinese week s culture and cuisine festival. The lunisolar chinese calendar determines the date of lunar new year. It is also known as the lunar new year or the spring festival.

Preparations for the new year begin on february 4th 2021 and last until new years eve. 2021 is a year of the ox according to chinese zodiac. Chinese new year falls on saturday 25 january 2020.