Across the country and in every village as well in cities and provinces, you can find the Chinese celebrating with joy and happiness...this feast is called the lunar new year as well as the rabbit year because its timing is the 22 of Jan. 2023

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Reported by|Hue Gey
china news chief- CJ
Shanghai - 23- Jan.2023

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The lunar year in Chinese culture:

In Chinese culture, the Lunar New Year is the beginning of a lunar calendar or lunisolar calendar year, whose months are moon cycles. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in varying ways and on diverse dates.

The more well-known celebrations include New Year's Day (or week) in the Chinese calendar and related national calendars, the Hindu and Buddhist calendars of South and Southeast Asia, and the Islamic and Jewish calendars that originated in the Middle East. It is also celebrated by other cultures, such as the Nisga'a people of Canada. The determination of the first day of a new lunar year varies by culture.
The Lunar New Year celebrations of the East Asian cultural sphere occur on the same date across regions: the new moon that falls between 21 January and 20 February, based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar. Originating from the Spring Festival, celebrations outside China take various forms, each with its own interpretation of the Chinese zodiac.

The traditions of the lunar new year in-depth:

Chinese New Year is the festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. In Chinese, the festival is commonly referred to as the Spring Festival as the spring season in the lunisolar calendar traditionally starts with lichen, the first of the twenty-four solar terms which the festival celebrates around the time of the Chinese New Year. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of the spring season, observances traditionally take place from New Year's Eve, the evening preceding the first day of the year to the Lantern Festival, held on the 15th day of the year. The first day of the Chinese New Year begins on the new moon that appears between 21 January and 20 February

The Chinese celebrate the lunar and Spring Festivals in a joyful atmosphere

Chinese New Year is one of the most important holidays in Chinese culture.
The Chinese New Year is associated with several myths and customs. The festival was traditionally a time to honor deities as well as ancestors. Within China, regional customs and traditions concerning the celebration of the New Year vary widely, and the evening preceding New Year's Day is frequently regarded as an occasion for Chinese families to gather for the annual reunion dinner. It is also a tradition for every family to thoroughly clean their house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for incoming good luck. Another custom is the decoration of windows and doors with red paper-cuts and couplets. Popular themes among these paper-cuts and couplets include good fortune or happiness, wealth, and longevity. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red envelopes.

The Chinese celebrate the lunar and Spring Festivals in a joyful atmosphere

during the feast in china, most of the people in the cities go to their families in the villages and stay with them to spend together the feast, cooking traditional food and sharing amusing times with the plays and songs ...
all the Chinese too in the lunar feast share in the decoration of the streets and their homes with lanterns, and during the feast, they go outside and share the biggest celebration the city holds for this occasion...
this year and because of the break out of the coronavirus, the health administration took precautions and prevented the grouping without wearing masks and increased the number of medical teams in every area to be ready for any case. so people could spend the feast in peace and safe from any fear of the virus.
in the following pictures you can notice that life returned to its ordinary and people could entertain and amuse their times.

The Chinese celebrate the lunar and Spring Festivals in a joyful atmosphere

The Chinese celebrate the lunar and Spring Festivals in a joyful atmosphere