lunar festivals
Moon-based holiday events
Lunar festivals are celebrations timed according to the lunar calendar rather than the solar calendar used in the West.
Many East Asian holidays fall on specific lunar dates—Chinese New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Diwali.
Because the lunar calendar shifts relative to the solar one, these festivals occur on different dates each year in Western calendars: The lunar festival falls in late January this year.
- Chinese New YearEast Asian lunar celebration
- dragon danceCeremonial Chinese procession performance
- red lanternsScarlet paper lamps
- Rosh ChodeshJewish new month observance
- lanternEnclosed portable light
paper lanterns · Vesak · moon cakes · blood moon · waxing crescent · full moon · folklore · dumpling · rice wine · firework · Ramadan · moon · harvest moon · Diwali · lotus · incense · offerings · ancestral spirits
- Moon Loremoon goddess, moon symbol, moon spirit, crescent moon, full moon
- star worshipsun worship, solar deities, Ra, Helios, Selene
- Chinese folk religionfolk religion, folk beliefs, ancestral worship, Chinese temples, joss sticks
- East Asian Magicfeng shui, yin yang, yin, yang, qi
lunar festivalsstatutory holidays
Legally required days off
national holidays · Independence Day · New Year's Day · Christmas