Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year
Top to bottom, left to right: Fireworks display at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong A lion dance performance in Kuala Lumpur Chinese New Year celebrations in Singapore Chinese New Year parade in Manhattan's Chinatown, New York City A family gathering to make bánh tét for Tết celebrations in Vietnam A Korean street dancers from Seollal in Los Angeles, California Blowing the shofar on Rosh Hashanah Islamic New Year celebration in Nawa, Afghanistan
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. Lunar calendars follow the lunar phase while lunisolar calendars follow both the lunar phase and the time of the solar year. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in various ways at diverse dates.

The most well-known celebrations include new years based on the (lunisolar) Chinese calendar and Tibetan calendar of East Asia;^[1][2][3] the (lunisolar) Buddhist and Hindu calendars of Southeast and South Asia; and the (lunar) Islamic calendar and the (lunisolar) Jewish calendar that originated in the Middle East. The determination of the first month of a new lunar or lunisolar year varies by culture.