The Lunar New Year Day is the lunar calendar's equivalent of New Year's Day and is marked on the first day of the first month of the lunar year. This date varies in the Gregorian calendar.
This is day is an official holiday in Hong Kong, as well as the second day of the Lunar New Year.
Famous quotes containing the words lunar, year and/or day:
“A bird half wakened in the lunar noon
Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“You can feel it, in a hundred little ways year after year. It is so certain and inevitable, that the next century will be a time in which it is not simply safe, but commonplace, to be openly gay.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)
“How can they know
Truth flourishes where the student’s lamp has shone,
And there alone, that have no solitude?
So the crowd come they care not what may come.
They have loud music, hope every day renewed
And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)