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Celebrations » Chinese New Year » When is
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When is Chinese New Year |
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The approaching year 2011 will be celebrated as Chinese New Year 2011 and Chinese New Year 2011 celebrate on 3rd february.
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Chinese New Year is denoted by an animal. chinese new year, also identified as the Chinese Lunar New Year or the Chinese Spring celebration, is one of the customary Chinese holidays.
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The rabbit year is well known as Chinese New Year 2011. The upcoming year is Xin-Mao year.
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The Chinese new year is celebrated in late January to early February. Chinese New Year begins on a New Moon and complete with the lantern fair on the full moon 15 days later.
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Xin (Metal) is the eighth of the ten celestial stems and Mao (Rabbit) is the fourth of the twelve terrestrial branches and marks the year of the Rabbit or Hare. One more exciting thing about chinese new year is that only few people know when this holiday is famous without looking at a customary Chinese calendar because it never come on the same day.
The very old Chinese used a lunar calendar. Chinese New year is always distinguished on the first day of the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which comes on the day of the second new moon behind the day on which the winter solstice come, unless there is an intercalary eleventh or twelfth month in the lead-up to the New Year. In that case, the Chinese New Year falls on the day of the third new moon after the solstice. Chinese new year celebration is as well the time when the biggest human migration takes place when Chinese all around the world return home on Chinese New Year eve to have gathering dinner with their family.
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