Lunar Calendar 2019 Chinese New Year

The coming chinese new year is 2019 02 05 which is 13 days away.

Lunar calendar 2019 chinese new year. Unofficially it is celebrated for up to two weeks. This years animal sign is the dog from 2018 02 16 to 2019 02 04. The holiday celebrates the start of. The traditional chinese calendar was developed between 771 and 476 bc during the spring and autumn period of the eastern zhou dynasty.

Chinese new year is a chinese festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional chinese calendar. Calendar with important chinese new year dates. T he chinese new year or spring festival has more than 4000 years of history and is the longest holiday of the year. Before the zhou dynasty solar calendars were used.

Chinese new year is the main holiday of the year for more than one quarter of the worlds population. The lunar new year dates from 2600 bc when the emperor huang ti introduced the first cycle of the chinese zodiac. The festival is usually referred to as the spring festival in modern china and is one of several lunar new years in asia. Although the peoples republic of china uses the gregorian calendar for civil purposes a special chinese calendar is used for determining festivals.

Chinese new year begins according to the chinese calendar which consists of both gregorian and lunar solar calendar systems. Chinese new year starts on the second or third new moon after the winter solstice depending on the number of new moons between the two winter solstices. Chinese new year starts on february 5th of 2019 and ends on january 25th of 2020 and is the year of the pig.