Chinese Lunar 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 Lunar Year calendar and ends with lantern festival or Chap Goh Mei which is on the 15th day.

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

Lunar Year greetings calendars 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 Year 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 Lunar Year greetings calendar spread to Korea and then to Japan by the sixth century ad was eventually adopted elsewhere in Asia.

Asian Chinese New Year wishes 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 wishes parade claims to be the largest Asian cultural event in North America.