Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year
Top to bottom, left to right: Islamic New Year celebration in Nawa, Afghanistan Blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah Fireworks display at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong Chinese New Year parade in Manhattan's Chinatown, New York City A woman lights the candle for celebrate Diwali in India Decorated kadomatsu in Japanese New Year A family gathering to make bánh tét for Tết celebrations in Vietnam A Korean street dancers from Seollal in Los Angeles, California
Type	Cultural
Date	Varies

Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on lunar calendars or, informally but more widely, lunisolar calendars. Typically, both types of calendar begin with a new moon but, whilst a lunar calendar year has a fixed number (usually twelve) lunar months, lunisolar calendars have a variable number of lunar months, resetting the count periodically to resynchronise with the solar year. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in various ways at diverse dates. The determination of the first day of a new lunar or lunisolar year varies by culture.

The better-known celebrations include new years based on the (lunar) Islamic calendar and the (lunisolar) Jewish calendar that originated in the Middle East; the (lunisolar) Chinese calendar and Tibetan calendar of East Asia;^[1][2][3] and the (lunisolar) Buddhist and Hindu calendars of Southeast and South Asia.