When does Chinese new year begin? Is it because of a special event?

Answer 1

The Chinese New Year day is on February 18th, 2007. This day is a new moon day, it is the first day of the first Chinese lunar month in the Chinese Lunar Calendar system. The exact new moon time is at 00:14 on 18-Feb-07 in China time zone.

If we apply Chinese lunar calendar system on the USA time zones, we find something interesting here. In the US Pacific Standard Time (PST), the new moon time is at 08:14 of 2-17-07. In the US Eastern Standard Time (EST), the new moon time is at 11:14 of 2-17-07. Therefore, the Chinese New Year day for USA time zones is on February 17th, 2007.

The new moon time is at 16:14 on 2-17-07 of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and at 17:14 on 2-17-07 of Time Zone GMT+1. That means Chinese New Year day is on February 17th, 2007 for European countries. For Asian countries, such as Vietnam and Thailand using GMT+7 time zone, the Chinese New Year Day is on February 17th, 2007, too

The Year 2007 (Red Pig) is the 4704th Chinese year. The Chinese believe that the first king of China was the Yellow King (he was not the first emperor of China). The Yellow King became king in 2697 B.C., therefore China will enter the 4704th year on February 4th, 2007. Also, the Chinese Year uses the cycle of 60 Stem-Branch counting systems and the Red Pig is the 23rd Stem-Branch in the cycle. Since 4700 = (60 *78) + 24, therefore this Red Pig Year is the 4704th Chinese Year.

Some web sites say the year 2007 is the 4705th Chinese year. If you cannot find the explanation, here is a possible answer for you: The Yellow King's inauguration was held in the spring of 2697 B.C. But the day that was used as the first day of the year was the winter solstice, which was around December 23rd, 2698 B.C. Today's January 1st meant nothing to the Yellow King. If we count that extra eight days in 2698 B.C., then year 2007 is the 4705th Chinese year.

The reason for late Chinese New Year in 2007 is because year 2006 has an extra lunar month; a double 7th lunar month (Leap Month). This makes 2006 with two Chinese Valentine's Days, which is on the 7th lunar day of 7th lunar month. It also pushed down the date of Chinese Moon Festival into October 2006. All of this makes the Chinese New Year Day come on February 18, 2007.

Answer 2

To cut a long story short-

1.When?
- It can begin any time during the end of January til the end of February.
- This is because the Chinese use the lunar (moon) calandar, which differs from the Western solar calander.

2.Why?
There's a legend about a monster eating people, spoiling crops and generally being evil and scary, it hated loud noise and bright lights so to scare the beast away the people in the legend used fire works which apparently did the job nicely. Some Chinese even refer to New year as (guo nian) which means passed year, as they have managed to escape the clutches of the new year-beast. In general the beast of legend has been forgotten but fire works are a must!

Answer 3

In 2007 the Chinese new year fell on February 18.The Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year because it is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. It usually occurs in January or February. The current year is the year of the Pig.
In the Far East, this is also the end of winter and the beginning of spring. Farmers take this opportunity to welcome spring as they plant for the new harvest. Thus, the Lunar New Year is also called the Spring Festival.

Answer 4

look extra heavily on the 'activities' that are meant to take place on twenty first December 2012 and you will discover that they are all bogus. The alignment of the Milky way galaxy and the solar occurs each 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, image voltaic eclipses take place each 3 hundred and sixty 5 days (there isn't one on twenty first December 2012 besides), a rotational pole shift shouldn't take place, magnetic pole shifts take place each so oftentimes however the final one replaced into seven hundred,000 years in the past and there is no data that yet another is on its way, under no circumstances till now or for the duration of 2012. As for dissimilar historic religions all predicting the comparable date, that is bogus to boot. Ever on account that some years in the past while the date of twenty first December 2012 replaced into first mentioned to be the tip of the Mayan long count type calendar, fraudsters have been 'finding' the comparable date envisioned via different religions. a majority of those 'findings' become fake while examined extra heavily, with the perpetrators purely attempting to discover something which 'might' be in accordance with that date. the international has been around for 5 billion years and could final yet another 5 billion. the probabilities of it ending for the duration of your lifetime are approximately one hundred million to a minimum of one. relax fairly.

Answer 5

This year is the year of the pig - it's the Chinese year 4705 and it began on Feb. 18, 2007.

Read all about it on Wikipedia or one of the Chinese folklore websites.

Answer 6

Yes. Legend has it the animals had a race, the winner would have the year named after him.
There were 12 animals which included the Dragon, Tiger, Ox, Rat, Pig, Dog, Horse
The rat won because he clung onto another animal (ox I think) and was the first to have a year named after him.

Answer 7

First new moon of the year usually february, it changes from year to year.

Answer 8

Erm, yeah - the Chinese New Year!?