Little New Year (Chinese: Xiaonian), usually a week before the lunar New Year, falls on Feb 1 this year. It is also known as the Festival of the Kitchen God, the deity who oversees the moral character of each household.
Mayor Bill de Blasio on Tuesday announced Lunar New Year an official public school holiday in New York City, which will allow tens of thousands of students of Asian descent to celebrate the festival without having to miss class.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said that important strides are being taken to realize the need for unity among all people, as the nation celebrated its national New Year on Tuesday.
What is the best time to experience Hong Kong, a vibrant East-meets-West city? Well- informed visitors choose the Spring Festival, the most jubilantly celebrated occasion by all Chinese people worldwide.
The Spring Festival, the beginning of a new Chinese Lunar Year and a day when all Chinese people across the world unite with their loved ones, is being celebrated by more and more people from other cultures.
For Tibetans, this Lunar New Year is doubly joyful as it coincides with the Tibetan year of the Wooden Ram, which also begins on Thursday.
Several world leaders have expressed their goodwill and best regards to the Chinese people on the Chinese Lunar New Year.
In China, the sky is filled with pyrotechnics and the ports and airports are full of happy family reunions: Wednesday marked the thousand-year-long tradition of ushering in the lunar New Year.
Long lines formed at a busy border station on Monday as a great number of the Chinese mainland tourists traveled southward to celebrate the upcoming Spring Festival in Hong Kong, a special administrative region that will mark the occasion with a unique fusion of modern fun and ancient customs.
Things change with the times, but the Lunar New Year's Eve dinner, the last meal of the lunar year, remains the most important tradition among the Vietnamese people.
Swimmer Ning Zetao and tennis superstar Li Na won the Best Male and Female Athletes of the Year resepectively at the prestigious China's Central Television (CCTV) Sports Awards here on Sunday.
As the world is entering the new year of 2015, global leaders, as a tradition, delivered their New Year speeches, voicing greeting messages with hope and confidence.
Chinese people will be able to start their week of New Year celebrations -- Spring Festival -- from lunar New Year's Eve again, a date excluded from the holiday last year.
The U.S. Treasury unveiled this year's one-dollar-note "Lucky Money" on Tuesday to welcome the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year.
The Australian National University Dictionary Centre (ANDC), based in Canberra, confirmed in a statement on Friday that they have selected "bitcoin" as the 2013 Word of the Year.
Visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, pushed for tourism cooperation when addressing the opening ceremony of the Year of Chinese Tourism in Russia on Friday evening.
Though the week-long Spring Festival holiday has ended in China, various overseas celebrations are still underway.
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