Happy Chinese New Year 2022 – Year of the Tiger
Millions of people will be celebrating Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year, at the start of February.
It is one of the biggest events of the year for many East and South East Asian people and it will be marked by communities all over the world.
People will eat lots of food, enjoy fireworks, wear special clothes and hang red lanterns to mark the occasion.
This year the celebration will begin on 1 February. The reason the new year falls at this time is because it marks the start of the lunar new year, which is when there is the start of a new moon.
This is different to the ‘Gregorian’ calendar that we traditionally use in the UK, which always starts on 1 January.
Because it depends on the Moon, the date of Lunar New Year actually changes each year, but it will always fall some time between 21 January and 20 February.
The festival starts on 1 February and lasts for up to 16 days. This year marks the change from the year of the Ox to the year of the Tiger.