The new year of the moon begins on January 29, and the national and world communities are celebrating.
According to the National Museum of Art, China’s most important holidays -the new year are widely celebrated in South Korea, Vietnam, and other countries that occupy other important parts of the nation.
In the Chinese’s Uchido Obi, according to the moon calendar, each new year is associated with one of the 12 animals, and 2025 is a snake year. Various Asian areas may not follow the same constellation observed in China, and many Asian Americans and the Pacific Islands do not observe the Chinese yellow road. I said.
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What is the Lunar New Year?
The new year of the moon begins with the first new moon of the moon calendar and continues through the first full moon, which falls 15 days later.
The new moon usually occurs at one point between mid -January and early February. Therefore, the beginning of the New Year begins on a different day according to the year.
The annual cycle is associated with specific animals such as cows, tigers, rabbits, or last year. According to the Chinese Institute, the year of snakes represents the era of transformation, introspection, and growth.
The moon calendar, unlike the Gregoriocalendar, uses the moon to draw a few days, weeks, and moon. Since the moon is a period from a new moon to the next month (about 29.5 days), the monthly calendar does not accurately match the general calendar for 30 or 31 days.
The Chinese government officially adopted the Solar Gregorio calendar for more than a century ago, matching other areas of the world. After that, there is a Chinese community Celebrated both the beginning of Gregorio The new year of the moon reflecting cultural roots in January 1 and a few weeks later.
The new year of the moon is also known as a Chinese spring festival to nod in the future spring season. In Vietnam, holidays are known as tets, and in Korea they are called solar.
How to celebrate the Lunar New Year
To commemorate the 15 -day cultural festival, the New Year’s activities are often focused on various forms and dishes that can be enjoyed at home and open forums. Experts say that the central focus of the moon New Year’s celebration is to connect the family.
Mario Poseski, a professor of the University of Florida, and a professor of Chinese religion, wrote about the celebration of the moon in the moon. In conversation Last year, holiday traditions usually include home cleaning, decorations, gifts shopping, and food preparation for family gathering.
“Many dishes have a symbolic meaning,” Poseski wrote. “For example, DUMP is given a gold ingot to evoke good luck.”
Replacing a red envelope containing money is another general custom that is held every new year. Poseski said that the red color of the envelope was conspicuous in holiday decorations and expresses prosperity and luck, and the elderly members are usually given to young members.
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Fireworks, dance, and other cultural performances, carnivals, and gatherings are often the classic of the monthly New Year’s celebration.
In Beijing, the AP communication reported that the crowd was filling the park for the “temple fair” on Wednesday, sounding some sounding bells, and throwing coins in a gold bar -like container for good luck. 。
In Malaysia, it sounded in the New Year with a firecracker in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, but the Russians supported the music procession in Moscow on Tuesday nights, and according to AP, they started a 10 -day New Year festival.
Denver companies are one of many US cities, which are respectful on holidays, and have begun the new year of traditional dishes and products.
“Celebration to celebrate the cultural aspect, a celebration that welcomes the New Year, full of good luck and change,” said Mimi Ruon, a co -owner of Denver’s gift shop. The celebration of her family and the store open to Colorado.
“Every year, we celebrate the house with a lot of red and gold, and celebrate long noodles so that we can have a long life and DUMP children,” Luon said.
The celebration of the month of the moon is traditionally reached at the lantern festival, and there is a large line of light that was held everywhere from Gigon, China. Philadelphia Franklin Square。
