ushering in the Year of the Snake, according to the Chinese lunar calendar. This 16-day Spring Festival is marked by cultural ...

The Lunar New Year begins Jan. 29 ... The snake is one of the 12 animals on the Chinese zodiac calendar. They include the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster ...

We celebrated the Year of the Snake in style at the San Francisco Symphony’s Lunar New Year Festival! 2025 also marks a special milestone as the festival proudly celebrated its 25th anniversary.

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Chicago’s Chinatown Sunday afternoon to celebrate the end of the Lunar New Year ... of a new year in the lunisolar calendar, and watched marching bands ...

The Year of the Snake is upon us as communities across the Bay Area celebrate Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year or Tet. Here’s a sampling of ways to join in the celebrations. Children’s ...

Courtesy San Mateo County Libraries. It’s time to usher in the Year of the Snake. Lunar New Year officially falls on Jan. 29, with events ongoing around the Peninsula now through February.

This year’s official transition from Dragon (2024) to Snake (2025) happens on Feb 3, according to the Chinese astrological Solar calendar, even though according to the Lunar calendar ...

What is the Lunar calendar? Lunar New Year celebrations ... which could be a wood rat, a water snake or a fire horse. The Chinese zodiac animals come from a mythological story from the Han ...

also known as Lunar Year and Spring Festival dates to about 3,500 years ago. The festival celebrates the beginning of the new year on the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar. This year, Chinese New ...

Lunar New Year is the beginning of a new year based on the lunar calendar. It is one of Hong ... throughout the city to start the Year of the Snake with joy and prosperity.

But what exactly is the Lunar New Year and what does the snake represent ... This differs from the Gregorian calendar typically used in the UK, which begins on 1 January.