Chinese New Year dragon, Hong Kong

Chinese New Year - often called the Chinese Lunar New Year, even if it is really lunisolar - is the most important traditional Chinese holidays. This is an All-East and South-East Asian Festival. In China, it is known as "Spring Festival", the literal translation of Chinese name  (pinyin: Chun Jie) due to the difference between Western and traditional Chinese methods of calculation of the seasons. It marks the end of the winter season, representing the Western Carnival. The festival begins on the first day of the first month (Chinese: ; pinyin: Zheng Yue) in the traditional Chinese calendar and ends with the Lantern Festival, which is 15 days. Chinese New Year, a day when Chinese families get together for their annual reunion dinner, known as Chu XI ) or "Eve of the passing year."

Celebration of Chinese New Year is the longest and largest of the Chinese lunar-solar calendar. The origin of Chinese New Year is itself a secular sense and profits due to various myths and traditions. Old Chinese New Year is a reflection on how people behave and what they thought was best.

Chinese New Year is celebrated in countries and territories with a population of China, as mainland China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Tibet, Macao, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and also in Chinatown elsewhere. Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had an influence on New Year's celebrations of its geographic neighbors, as well as cultures with whom the Chinese have had extensive interaction. These are the Koreans (Seollal) and Bhutan (Losar), Mongolians (Tsagaan Sar), Vietnam (Tet), and Japan before 1873 (Oshogatsu).

In countries such as Australia, Canada and the United States, although the Chinese New Year is a holiday, many ethnic Chinese hold large celebrations and Australia Post, Post of Canada and the U.S. Postal Service issue stamps on the theme of the year.

In China, varies with the regional customs and traditions to celebrate the Chinese New Year off. People will pour their money to buy presents, decoration materials, food and clothing. It is also the tradition that every family clean the house to sweep something bad fortune, hoping to make room for the incoming good luck. Windows and doors are decorated with red paper-cuts and couplets with themes popular "happiness", "wealth" and "life". On the eve of Chinese New Year is a festive dinner with families. Power include items such as pigs, ducks, chickens and sweet treats. The family will end the evening with fireworks. Early the next morning, children greet their parents wish them a Happy New Year and Happy, and receive money in red envelopes. The tradition of Chinese New Year is to unite, to forget all grudges and a sincere desire for peace and happiness for all.

Although the traditional Chinese calendar is not used continuously year numbered years outside of China is often numbered from the reign of the Yellow Emperor. But at least three different years numbered 1 are now used by different scholars, by the year 2011 "Year of China" 4709, 4708 or 4648th