What is lunar new year and the year of the snake. Here’s what you need to know

Green Bay – Lunar New Year begins today, January 29.

It is a complex holiday with a lot of symbolism that is stuffed in days of festivities filled with equipment

What is Lunar New Year?

It is the beginning of the new year as characterized by the ancient Chinese calendar that mixed the Earth’s revolutions around the Sun with the Moon’s cycles.

This “Lunisolar” calendar In line with the nature cycles, not only the culturally important religious ceremonies, but more practical farmers’ agricultural life.

As the new year approached the first new moon, It offered those who worked with the fields their only option to rest in the year. There was still a lot of work to do and prepare the material things for partying – noodles, dumplings, rice cakes, money, new clothes.

Is the Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year the same?

Chinese New Year is a 15-day festival celebrated in China and Chinese communities, according to Congressional Research Service.

Lunar New Year is widely celebrated in Asian communities in the world that were in the sphere of dynastic China’s sphere of influence or have large Chinese populations. That’s the reason why South Korea, Vietnam and Singapore celebrateBut Japan doesn’t.

What are you doing on Lunar New Year?

The day before the first New Moon of the year is like Thanksgiving.

There are dumplings whose form is similar to gold content that symbolizes wealth. There are chewy rice cakes – like pasta, but made of beaten rice – whose literal translation in Chinese is “tall year” to symbolize the hope that every year will be better. There are long noodles whose length symbolizes the hope of a long life.

Children get the opportunity for new clothes once a year, another symbol of throwing the old and hope for the new, and receiving money from the elderly in their lives in red envelopes-a connection with money and luck to get through uncertain times.

The next two days are to visit friends and family, and the next few days are for rest and free time.

At the first full moon of the year 15 days from the new moon that started the new year, The Lantern Festival closes the holidayAnd life as it was resumes.

What is the year of the snake?

It is part of Zodiac that is repeated every 12 years, every year represented by an animal.

This year is the year of the snake. People born in the year of the snake are said to be skilled and ingenious, but also cunning and slu.

When is Lunar New Year?

This year, Lunar begins New Year on January 29, but because the moon cycles do not match the sun cycles, it can fall anywhere from the end of January to early February on the Gregorian calendar.

What happens in the Green Bay area of ​​Lunar New Year?

• Titletown District will have lucky red envelope activities on January 29, Paper Facing on January 30 and Zodiac Puppet-Making on January 31st.

Jesse Lin is a reporter that covers society in Green Bay and its surroundings as well as politics in northeastern Wisconsin. Contact him at 920-834-4250 or [email protected].

This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: What to know about the moon association’s new year and the year of the snake