Lunar New Year (abbreviated as "LNY") refers to the beginning of the year in several calendars, based on a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar.
These new year celebrations sometimes fall on or near the same day of the Gregorian year:
- Chinese New Year
- Japanese New Year (before 1873)
- Korean New Year (Seol-nal)
- Mongolian New Year
- Tibetan New Year
- Vietnamese New Year (Tết)
These celebrations fall on other days:
- Burmese New Year (Thingyan): Lunisolar new year falls in April; similar to Cambodian, Lao, Sri Lankan and Thai new years
- Cambodian New Year, similar to Burmese, Lao, Sri Lankan and Thai
- Islamic New Year
- Jewish New Year, in the Jewish tradition, begins at sundown at the end of the 29th day of the month of Elul
- Lao New Year, similar to Burmese, Cambodian, Sri Lankan and Thai
- Sinhala and Tamil New Year, similar to Burmese, Cambodian, Lao, and Thai
- Thai New Year (Songkran), similar to Burmese, Cambodian, Lao and Sri Lankan
- Ugadi and Gudi Padwa, Lunisolar New Year's Day for the Deccan people of India
Famous quotes containing the words lunar and/or year:
“A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“And year by year our memory fades
From all the circle of the hills.”
—Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)