Chinese New Year, Lunar New Year, Spring Festival is most important of traditional Chinese holidays. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the first month in the Chinese New Year calendar and ends with lantern festival or Chap Goh Mei which is on the 15th day.

Lunar New Year Greetings are the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese New Year calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself centuries old and gains significance because of several myths and traditions. Ancient Chinese New Year is a reflection on how the people behaved and what they believed in the most.

Chinese New Year calendars wishes consisting of 12 months each month corresponding roughly to one cycle of the moon, have been used by several peoples throughout history, including many Asian cultures as well as Muslims and Jews.
Because 12 Lunar New Year cycles greetings do not fill a whole year, it is necessary to occasionally add an extra month. The Chinese calendar had adopted this custom as early as by 1600 bc and Jewish calendar followed suit by the eighth century ad, creating what are known as lunisolar calendars. This avoids “seasonal creep,” keeping holidays in the same season, even if they may fall slightly later or earlier compared to a solar calendar. The Chinese calendar spread to Korea and then to Japan by the sixth century ad was eventually adopted elsewhere in Asia.

Asian people around the world may also celebrate their respective wherever they are. London claims to have the largest such celebration outside Asia and San Francisco’s Chinese New Year parade claims wishes to be the largest Asian cultural event in North America.