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The Chinese new year is from the American perspective, because The Chinese came to USA earlier that other Asian Group. My personal view is that you can say Chinese New Year to the other person as long as they are Chinese. Or you are a Chinese you want to wish western people a happy Chinese new year. If one HAS to make some sort of distinction, then I think "Chinese" for the new year that falls between January 21 and February 20 makes more sense than "Lunar" because it's the specific lunar calendar that's based on the Chinese lunar calendar (the Vietnamese and Korean lunar calendar are basically based on the chinese one, the difference is Let me pull out an interesting sentence for you: The Lunar New Year celebrations of the East Asian cultural sphere occur on the same date across the region, on the new moon, which occurs in late January or early February, and are based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar. I understand many of the customs of CNY is shared all across Asia, but whenever I'm abroad saying Happy CNY feels stupid, Many other Asian Simply put, Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year are not the same. Despite being related, there are a few noteworthy differences between the two. Read on to find out what they are. The Differences between Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year 1. "Chinese New Year" is specific while "Lunar New Year" is more general. The push for ‘Lunar New Year’ Lunar New Year marks the beginning of the lunisolar calendar, with festivities often lasting for 15 days or more. Chinese New Year specifically refers to the festival in China. Lunar New Year is a broader term for similar celebrations across Asia. Both are based on lunar calendars, but the Chinese calendar dictates the timing of Chinese New Year. In their post “Chinese New Year, not Lunar New Year”, they wrote: “I encourage everyone to not replace the name CNY with ‘Lunar New Year’.” They then provided three reasons as to why CNY is the correct term. The first: CNY is not New Year’s Day in the Lunar Calendar. Most people in the UK recognise New Year's Eve as 31 December, however the Chinese and Lunar New Year varies year on year, yet usually falls around the end of January. Despite the variations, Lunar New Year celebrations across these cultures share common themes of family gatherings, honoring ancestors, and wishing for good luck and prosperity in the upcoming year. The Differences between Chinese New Year and Lunar New Year 1. “Chinese New Year” is specific while “Lunar New Year” is more general. The actual real lunar new year is based on the Islamic calendar. Chinese people don’t even call it “Chinese New Year”. They call it 春節 or Spring Festival or 農曆新年 or Agricultural New Year. Both these names, Agricultural New Year and Spring Festival are more accurate names than Lunar New Year. The problem with calling Chinese New Year lunar new year is that the Chinese calendar is a lunisolar calendar not a lunar calendar. the Islamic calendar is the only major calendar that is actually a lunar calendar. furthermore, most calendars in the world are lunisolar/lunar; such as the Jewish, Indian, Persia, etc. Happy tet. Happy Chunjie. Happy seollal etc. If u and the recipient are of different culture, its best to say both. Happy korean new year and chinese new year! “Happy lunar new year” should be ok too, but now its associated with intention of not wanting to say “happy chinese new year” so some chinese people might not like hearing it. Occasionally it coincides with the Mongolian and/or Chinese new year. It's on February 21 this year like how some people are saying the Mongolian New Year is on too. I heard there were some new astrology calendars made during the Manju Qing Empire, and since that empire shattered there have been some attempts by both commie and non-commie I'm currently in China and recently there's been a debate that started on Twitter when a British museum referred to the lunar new year as being the "Korean Lunar New Year", after this Chinese netizens were upset and claim that the Lunar New Year orginated from China so therefore belongs to China. I see the difference between CNY and LNY more like the difference between "Merry Christmas" and "Happy Holidays" respectively. Chinese New Year (春節 aka Spring Festival) is a subset of the Lunar New Year season, which also includes Seollal (Korean), Losar (Tibetan), Tet (Vietnamese), Tsagaan Sar (Mongolian), etc. When people talk about "Lunar New Year" celebrations, they're only talking about one of those calendars though. They're not saying it to be inclusive of Jewish new year celebrations (which take place around September, not January) or the Islamic new year (which this year is in July but moves around because the Islamic calendar doesn't adjust to stay in sync with the solar year). It is not “colonizer vibes” if Chinese people want to call it Chinese New Year. How Chinese people celebrate it is their own business and people need to stop dictating what Chinese people are calling their own holiday. If people want to call it Lunar New Year because how they celebrate is different than how Chinese people celebrate, then This was prompted by NewJeans Danielle's controversy and apology for saying 'Chinese New Year'. It just feels like a controversy that is waiting to happen every New Year, some idol will inevitably say Chinese New Year (CNY) instead of Lunar New Year (LNY) and knets will begin to dogpile them and release their sin I am Chinese and I used the name of lunar. In my opinion, Chinese aren’t the only one celebrate this new year, and the holiday is being derived from the lunar calendar. I respect all the people celebrating this holiday therefore I t is conservative to say lunar rather than Chinese New Year.
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