Lunar New Year
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Lunar New Year refers to the beginning of the year in several calendars. It is based on a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar.
These new year celebrations based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar sometimes fall on or near the same day of the Gregorian year:
- Chinese New Year
- Japanese New Year (before 1873)
- Korean New Year (Seollal)
- Mongolian New Year (Tsagaan Sar)
- Tibetan New Year (Losar)
- Vietnamese New Year (Tết)
These celebrations (indic- influenced) 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
- 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
These celebrations (middle-eastern) fall on other days:
- 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
- The Samaritan and Karaite Jewish New Year celebrations are also lunar new years but, unlike mainstream Judaism, are observed in the Spring starting on the first day of Abib (Nisan) and culminating in the festival of Passover.
