lunar new year refers to the first day of a secular, sacred or other year whose months are coordinated the cycles of the moon. the whole year may account to a purely lunar calendar, which is not coordinated to a solar calendar (and, thus, may progress or retrogress through the solar year by comparison to it, depending on whether the lunar calendar has more or fewer than 13 months); or the year may account to a lunisolar calendar, whose months coordinate to the cycles of the moon but whose length is periodically adjusted to keep it relatively in sync with the solar year - typically by adding an intercalary month, when needed. the following east and central asian lunar new year celebrations are, or were historically, based on the traditional chinese lunisolar calendar: (occurring in late january or february) * chinese new year * japanese new year (prior to 1873) * korean new year (seolnal) * mongolian new year (tsagaan sar) * tibetan new year (losar) * vietnamese new year (táº¿t) these southeast and south asian lunar new year celebrations (indic- influenced) fall on other days: * burmese new year (thingyan): lunisolar new year falls in april; similar to cambodian, lao, sri lankan and thai new years * cambodian new year (chaul chnam thmey), similar to burmese, lao, sri lankan and thai * lao new year, similar to burmese, cambodian, sri lankan and thai * sinhala and tamil new year, similar to burmese, cambodian, lao, and thai * thai new year (songkran), similar to burmese, cambodian, lao and sri lankan * ugadi and gudi padwa, lunisolar new year's day for the deccan people of india * meitei cheiraoba, lunisolar new year's day for the people of manipur state of india these lunar new year celebrations that originated in west/southwest asia fall on other days: * islamic new year or muslim new year follows a purely lunar calendar of 12 months that retrogresses through the gregorian and julian calendar years. the day of muslim new year may thus fall in any season on the calendar. * in jewish (rabbinical and karaite) and samaritan religious and secular traditions, there are several holy days and festivals that are lunar new year observances. each tradition uses a slightly different version of the hebrew calendar but they are all lunisolar, so the days always fall in the same season. ** tu bishvat is the new year for trees in rabbinical jewish tradition but is not part of the karaite or samaritan calendars. it is a late winter/very early spring holiday. ** passover in karaite and samaritan traditions is the culmination of the new year celebrations that begin on 1 abib (aka 1 nisan); while for rabbinical jews, 1 nisan is the new year for kings and festivals and passover (15 days later) generally is no longer associated with new year celebratio
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