In this RIA Novosti article, we tell you who, when, and how celebrates the Chinese New Year, which this year begins on January 29.
When does Chinese New Year celebration start and end in 2025
For many centuries, the Chinese New Year has been one of the main and longest holidays in China and other East Asian countries. While the Western world celebrates it on December 31 every year, in China the New Year is determined by the lunar calendar - the holiday falls on the second new moon after the winter solstice, that is, after December 21. Thus, it falls on different dates - between January 21 and February 20. In 2025, the New Year in China will begin on January 29, and it will be celebrated for more than ten days - until February 12.
In China, the first week of the New Year is a holiday, and this year the days from January 29 to February 4 will be non-working.
How Chinese New Year, or Spring Festival, is bahrain mobile database Traditionally Celebrated
Another name for the Chinese New Year is the Spring Festival. In Chinese, it sounds like Chunjie. The Chinese have long believed that it is on this day that nature begins to awaken after a long winter and gradually come to life.
The Chinese New Year did not receive this name right away. The fact is that after the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, the lunar calendar was replaced by the solar, that is, European. And according to it, the New Year began to be celebrated on January 1 - along with the rest of the world. While the previous New Year turned into the Spring Festival.
Cleaning and paying off debts
Preparations for the New Year celebration in China begin long before the day X. The first thing people do is do a large-scale general cleaning of their home: throw out everything unnecessary and old. It is believed that this action cleanses the home of everything bad that happened over the past year. Next in line is a haircut and buying new clothes. Particularly responsible Chinese also try to pay off all debts and fulfill everything they promised, so that they enter the New Year completely renewed and cleansed of the energy of the outgoing year.