
Similar to the New Year in Western countries, Lunar New Year is a time for family and to celebrate your ancestors, your traditions, and everything that came before you. The Lunar New Year is considered a time to honor family and ancestors. RELATED: Which Chinese Zodiac Signs Are Lucky? For example, people in Thailand celebrate their traditional national New Year, Songkran, from April 13-15, but as of 1940, the country has considered January 1 the official New Year, while many also celebrate on the Chinese New Year. That said, the start of the Lunar New Year differs in some countries.
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While the legal holiday, only lasts for seven days, the traditional celebration begins on the New moon and lasts until the first night of the Full Moon, a period of approximately two weeks.

The Lunar New Year lasts from New Year's Eve until the 15th of the month, or about 16 days.

The Lunar New Year lasts about two weeks. In the Chinese Lunar calendar, a 13th month, or leap month, is added to the calendar every three years for the sake of syncing lunar and solar calendars, a method known as lunisolar timekeeping. By basing our months on the sun, rather than the moon’s phases, Western calendar months last 30-31 days for a total of 365 days per year, whereas as Lunar calendar months last about 29 days for a total of 354. Western countries often use the Gregorian calendar this means we base our years off of calculations based on the sun’s cycle around the Earth.
