PITTSBURGH (Newsradio KDKA) - The Chinese New Year, or Lunar New year, begins February 1 and ends with the Lantern Festival on February 15.
2022 represents the year of the Tiger. 2021 was the year of the Ox.
Marian Lien, president of the Organization for Chinese Americans, Pittsburgh Chapter, told the KDKA Radio Morning Show Tuesday that not just the Chinese celebrate the Lunar New Year, but Koreans, Vietnamese-Americans, Japanese and East Asian cultures do as well.
"We call it the Lunar New Year primarily because it is inclusive of all of these different communities, but also because it follows the lunar cycle, or the moon cycle, instead of the Gregorian or the sun calendar," Lien said. "That's why it always falls on a different day of the year."
Listen to the full interview with Lien above to learn more.
