Lunar New Year:
Moscow recently marked the Lunar New Year with vibrant celebrations featuring panda-themed events, cultural performances and festive displays highlighting Chinese traditions.
- It marks the beginning of a new year in the lunisolar calendar, which was developed in ancient China.
- Often known in the West as Chinese New Year, the Lunar New Year occurs on the first new moon of the lunar calendar.
- Lunar calendars consist of 12 months, each month corresponding roughly to one cycle of the moon.
- Because 12 lunar cycles do not fill a whole year an extra month is added periodically to Lunar calendars to stay close to the solar year.
- Since the lunar calendar is based on the cycles of the moon, the date of Lunar New Year is different each year.
- However, it is usually in January or February.
