Lunar New Year (Chinese New Year)
17 February 2026 · movable holiday — Happy New Year! May it bring you health, joy and good luck!
Lunar New Year is one of the biggest holidays in East and Southeast Asia, celebrated by hundreds of millions of people around the world. It begins on the first day of the first month of the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. That day falls on a new moon between 21 January and 20 February, so the date shifts every year. Celebrations last about two weeks and end with the Lantern Festival. Homes are cleaned and decorated with red lanterns and paper cuttings, and red is associated with luck and joy. The most important moment is the family reunion dinner on New Year's Eve, when relatives gather together. Children receive red envelopes with money, while dragon and lion dances move through the streets to the sound of drums. Each year is linked to an animal from the twelve-year zodiac cycle, such as the Horse, the Goat or the Monkey. The festival is also marked in Vietnam (Tết), Korea (Seollal) and many other places. The sky matters here: the new year begins under the dark sky of the new moon, and the celebrations end with the Lantern Festival under the first full moon of the year.
Flying across the sky: An ethereal, bluish-silver dragon made of luminous dots and fine connecting lines, like a constellation, winding gracefully across the night sky with a few small lantern-shaped star clusters floating beside it, followed by a smaller star-line zodiac animal
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