Chinese New Year

From dumplings to spring rolls: How food shapes prosperity in Chinese New Year celebrations

February 20, 2026 3:00 pm

Like Indian families, Chinese families believe in celebrating with food, because for them, the most direct way to ensure fortune and prosperity is to eat it.

Chinese New Year 2026: When is Chinese Lunar New Year in 2026? Date, Animal of the Year, Tradition, Significance of the Fire Horse

February 17, 2026 9:16 am

Chinese New Year 2026 Dates, Theme, Significance: Chinese New Year celebrations are marked for 15 days, with this year Lunar New Year 2026 commencing from Tuesday, February 17, and ending on Tuesday, March 3, with the Lantern Festival.

How does the Chinese calendar work? What are some traditions associated with Chinese New Year?

January 30, 2025 4:49 pm

The Chinese use a lunisolar calendar that combines lunar and solar calendars to indicate both the phase of the Moon and the position of the Sun in the sky

Chinese New Year 2025: Key dates, animal of the year, predictions, significance, wishes and greetings to share—all you need to know

January 29, 2025 3:24 pm

Chinese New Year and Lunar 2025 Wishes, Images, Quotes, Significance, Animal of the Year : The 2025 Chinese New Year officially began on Wednesday, January 29, with public holidays starting from Tuesday, January 28.

Chinese New Year 2025: Know the dates, animal of the year, mythological significance, and celebrations

January 22, 2025 11:54 am

Chinese New Year 2025: The Spring Festival is a family-friendly festival, marked by reunion dinners and feasts with rice cakes, dumplings, and fish.

At Lunar New Year, desserts can be customary or 'cute-ified'

January 20, 2023 3:04 pm

Known for its diverse food culture, China offers a variety of Lunar New Year desserts that are usually rice-based or flour-based. They include tang yuan, which are mochi-esque rice balls with black sesame or peanut paste in soup, as well as sesame balls, almond cookies, candied lotus seeds and fat goh — steamed cakes also known as prosperity cakes.

Foreign guests enjoy Chinese New Year dumpling feast

February 01, 2022 2:00 pm

"This year, the Olympic Games coincided with Lunar New Year, so I think that it's quite fortunate to have friends from all over the world spend the Spring Festival together, so we include everyone," Yu said.

From stickers to filters, Facebook and Instagram celebrate Chinese new year with new features

February 13, 2021 10:39 am

From stickers to AR effects, both the platforms have come up with themed features for those people looking to celebrate on social media.

Chinese New Year: All you need to know about the Spring Festival

January 28, 2020 10:45 pm

This year, Chinese New Year started on January 25. The festival typically ends after 15 days of celebrations. It marks the start of the Lunar New Year and follows the lunar calendar, and hence, falls on a different date every year.

'Felt like a rockstar': Chinese woman gets whole plane to herself on her way home

February 04, 2016 9:04 am

Zhang, a woman employee of a motor company found that she was the only person on a Boeing 737 commercial flight to southern China's Guangzhou

Get lucky this year: 11 food items that are believed to bring you good luck

December 24, 2019 11:37 am

Chinese New Year 2019: Here’s how people are welcoming the 'Year Of The Pig' around the world

February 07, 2019 9:47 am

Chinese New Year 2019: Take a look at how people across the world are celebrating the Lunar New Year.

Chinese New Year celebrations captured in breathtaking pictures

February 08, 2016 7:04 pm

Thousands of Chinese people indulged in religious and cultural festivities as they welcomed the Year of the Monkey on February 8, 2016. Here are some pictures that captured the action.

Your Chinese zodiac horoscope for the Year of the Monkey 2016

February 08, 2016 2:12 am

Are you a rat, snake, tiger or a dragon? See how the monkey will influence the year for your animal sign.

Indonesia celebrates Chinese New Year

February 19, 2015 1:33 pm

Ethnic Chinese in the world's most populous Muslim country are celebrating the start of the year of the sheep.