Celebrate the new year, Chinese style

New Year’s Day is weeks past, horns and fluted glasses gone the way of Christmas lights and baubles. But for those of Asian heritage, a glorious celebrate awaits – Asian New Year, also known as the Spring Festival.

The festival falls on the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, which is based on the cycles of the moon’s phases. Thus, unlike the Western world’s New Year’s, Asian New Year falls on a different day each year.

This year, Asian New Year is on Monday, February 1. The joyous celebration lasts for 15 days, ending with the first full moon in a Lantern Festival. Each new year is assigned an animal from the Chinese Zodiac. This year, 2022, is the Year of the Tiger.