Countries including Japan, South Korea and Vietnam use the same calendar to mark important holidays, including the new year. In America, Lunar New Year celebrations are most visible ...

Many countries and cultures celebrate this festive occasion, including China, Vietnam, Korea ... some of the key dishes ...

In every third and 10th month of the lunar calendar, northerners collect ram, a type of crab (Varunidae), to prepare a ...

The calendar is based on the moon’s 12 phases ... For example, in South Korea, Lunar New Year is called Seollal. In Vietnam, Lunar New Year is called Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán.

The holiday is observed by many countries including China, Vietnam, Malaysia ... not just people who use the lunar calendar,” she told us. “Marking the New Year represents people’s longing ...

The Lantern Festival, also called Yuanxiao Festival, is a Chinese traditional festival celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month on the lunar calendar ... other Asian countries such as South ...

The lunisolar calendar tracks the phases of the sun and moon, in contrast to the commonly used Gregorian calendar which does not. Although the date varies annually, it will always fall between Jan ...

Fifty years after the end of the Vietnam War, decades of progress in addressing its legacies are coming undone.

But these countries still refer to their traditional lunisolar calendars, where dates are based on the positions of the sun and moon, for birthdays and cultural events, says James Ulak ...

The Lunar New Year - known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea ... It begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends 15 days later on the first ...