Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is the most important festival in China and a major event in some other East Asian countries.
Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. It was traditionally a time to honor deities and ancestors, and it has also become a time to feast and visit family members.
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When Is Chinese New Year?
Chinese New Year Animal
Why Chinese New Year Is Celebrated?
Traditions and Celebrations
Chinese New Year Food
Superstitions and Taboos
Chinese New Year Greetings
When Is Chinese New Year 2023?
Chinese New Year 2023 will fall on Sunday, January 22nd, 2023.
The date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the Chinese lunar calendar. The date changes every year but is always somewhere in the period from January 21st to February 20th. Read more on Chinese New Year dates from 2023 to 2030.
What Is the 2023 Chinese Zodiac Animal?
Chinese Calendar 2022 is a year of the TigerThe Chinese zodiac gives each year an animal sign.
Each Chinese year is associated with an animal sign according to the Chinese zodiac cycle. 2023 is the year of the Rabbit, specifically, Water Rabbit. The sign of Rabbit is a symbol of longevity, peace, and prosperity in Chinese culture. 2023 is predicted to be a year of hope.
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every New Year find you a better person.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Out with the old, in with the new' is a fitting expression for a holiday that is based on vomiting.
~ Andy Borowitz
You have the pencil and paper in your hand, you write the story of the upcoming year. May your story be a year filled with positive happenings and successes, with few erase marks and full of exclamation marks.
~ Theodore W. Higginsworth
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. ~ Danny Kaye
Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of joy, 525600 minutes of good luck, and 31536000 seconds of happiness. ~ Unknown
When you start to think that things should have been better this year, remember the mountains and valleys that got you here. They are not accidents and those moments weren't in vain. You are not the same, you have grown and you are growing. You are breathing, you are living, You are wrapped in endless boundless grace. And things will get better. There is more to you than yesterday. ~ Morgan Harper Nichols
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. ~ Goran Persson
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill