Ancient Chinese Celebrating New Year
Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year is an important holiday in China is also known as the Spring Festival
To the Chinese people it is as important as Christmas to people in the West.
The dates for this annual celebration are determined by the lunar calendar rather than the Gregorian calendar, so the timing of the holiday varies from late January to early February.
To the ordinary Chinese, the festival actually begins on the eve of the lunar New Year's Day and ends on the fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar. But the 15th of the first month, which normally is called the Lantern Festival, means the official end of the Spring Festival in many parts of the country.
Wanna know your own birthpet?
According to Chinese customs to
indicate the year,
every twelve years can be named
twelve kinds of animals,
such that everyone