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)
“Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under the earth at last.”
—E.T.A.W. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus Wilhelm)
“Creamy bean flowers with black eyes and leaves like bored hearts.
Is it blood clots the tendrils are dragging up that string?
No, no, it is scarlet flowers that will one day be edible.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)