Lunar Calendar 2021 Chinese New Year

The chinese new year or spring festival has more than 4 000 years of history and is the longest holiday of the year in the 21st century the national holiday begins on the first of the lunar calendar and lasts until the 15th of the first month.

Lunar calendar 2021 chinese new year.

Chinese new year for the year 2021 is celebrated observed on friday february 12. Tied to the chinese lunar calendar the holiday was traditionally a time to honor household and heavenly deities as well as ancestors. In 2021 chinese new year begins on february 12th and ends february 26th with the lantern festival. This year the animal sign is the ox.

Chinese new year date is different every year. Unofficially it is celebrated for up to two weeks. In 2021 chinese new year will begin on february 12. In china all stores are closed during the first.

The holiday celebrates the start of the new year according to the chinese calendar and falls in january or february according to the gregorian calendar. It is also known as the lunar new year or the spring festival. The lunar calendar is also associated with 12 animal signs in chinese zodiac so every 12 years is regarded as a cycle. Lunar new year runs officially for three days and even four if the holiday coincides with a sunday.

2021 is a year of the ox while 2022 turns to be a year of the tiger.