By Jaeyeon Kim |Staff Writer| In America, New Year’s day is every January 1. In China, New Year’s Day in 2016 is February 8. Why is the Chinese New Year different from America's? How does Chinese New Year’s Day operate on the Lunar Calendar? “Though China officially operates on the international Gregorian calendar, the traditional lunisolar calendar maintains ceremonial significance, and so every year, around the new moon closest to the beginning of spring, Chinese people ring in the beginning of a new annual cycle,” according to Time magazine. The Chinese calendar allocates each New Year with an animal of zodiacs: rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, … [Read more...] about Chinese New Year
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