New Year is one of the seven national holidays in China. It is called the Spring Festival, Chunjie or Lunar New Year. When is Chinese New Year 2024?
According to the world’s leading time and time zone website, Time And Date, it will occur on Saturday, February 10th. The timing of the Chinese New Year coincides with the new moon. In Beijing this will happen at 6:59 am, and in Astana – 4:59. The official holidays will last exactly eight days from February 10 to 17. However, two Sundays, February 4 and February 18, will be working days to compensate for the long weekend. Information about this was published on the official website of the Chinese government. In Kazakhstan there are no official days off on the occasion of this holiday.
According to the social publication Medium, Chinese business life is tied to the Gregorian calendar, and its traditions are tied to the ancient lunisolar calendar, which depends on the change of lunar phases. The arrival date of the new year occurs on the day of the second new moon after the fixed date of the winter solstice (December 22, 2023) and always falls between January 21 and February 20. The exact date is calculated annually according to the lunisolar calendar of Zhuangxu, one of the legendary rulers. According to legend, the first such calendar was created by the mythical Yellow Emperor Huang Di.
To streamline the chronology, intercalary months and leap years are established. Then five more similar calendars were created, which were compiled by each new dynasty. But it is the calendar of Zhuangxu, the grandson of the Yellow Emperor, that is used by contemporaries. What is the symbol of Chinese New Year 2024? This will be the year of the Green (Turquoise) Wood Dragon, which occurs once every 60 years. According to the Chinese calendar, the Celestial Empire will celebrate the year 4721.