Chinese Lunar New Year 2025: The auspicious festival of Lunar New Year is celebrated with pomp by East Asian communities around the globe, especially in countries like China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Vietnam, and Korea. It is also one of the most important festivals in Chinese culture. The festival marks the end of winter and the beginning of spring.
Lasting 15 days, the Lunar New Year ends with the Lantern Festival, also known as the Chinese Valentine's Day. Also Read | Chinese New Year 2025: Dates, animal of the year, significance, celebration and all about Spring Festival The festival will begin on the first day of the New Year, which is on January 29. Meanwhile, in 2025, the Lantern Festival will take place on February 12.
Some people also observe the festival for 16 days, beginning with Chinese New Year's Eve on January 28. Chinese Lunar New Year 2025: Year of the Snake 2025 marks the year of the Snake. The Chinese zodiac calendar is best described as a 12-year cycle represented by 12 different animals - Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Dog and Pig.
This means that those born in 2025 will be snakes. In Chinese culture , snakes are considered both the symbols of harvest, procreation, spirituality, and good fortune, as well as cunning, evil, threat, and terror. Per Chinese cosmology, each year is also associated with one of the five basic elements, namely gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, which create a 60-year cycle.
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