Lunar New Year celebrations begin Wednesday. Here's everything to know about the 2025 Lunar New Year, the Year of the Snake.

It's an auspicious year for roosters, a great year for horses to get married and a good year for pigs to travel ...

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng has reintroduced measures to make the Lunar New Year a federal holiday in conjunction with a resolution ...

In the Chinese zodiac, each new year, according to the lunar calendar, is associated with one of 12 animals, and 2025 marks the Year of the Snake. Different regions in Asia may not follow the same ...

Lunar New Year, often called the Spring Festival or Chinese New Year, is the most important holiday in China and many other ...

The holiday, rooted in lunar calendar traditions, marks the start of a new year based on the phases of the moon. As a result, its date varies annually. This year, the celebration ushers in the ...

As Chinese New Year begins, its a perfect time to reflect on what the upcoming year holds. Lunar New Year, also known as ...

Also known as the Spring Festival (春節), or simply Chinese New Year, it marks the beginning of the year according to the traditional lunar calendar. The Lunar New Year usually starts sometime ...

Video above: Headlines from WGAL News 8.Marking the first new moon of the lunar calendar, Lunar New Year falls on Wednesday, Jan. 29 this year. The day kicks off the 15-day Spring Festival.

Rather than following the western Gregorian Calendar with 365-day years, the Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based the moon's 12 phases. Each phase cycle spans approximately 29 days with ...

In December 2024, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) added the Spring Festival, the social practices of the Chinese people in celebration of the traditional ...

(Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images) Wednesday is a new moon, the first of 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. However, it also signals the beginning of Chinese Lunar ...