The Chinese lunar new year is a national holiday.

Hatsuichi marked the first market of the new lunar year.

A Beijing park is decorated for the lunar new year.

The fifteenth day is the first full moon of that lunar year.

A true lunar year should always start on the day of the new Moon.

Now it so happens that 30 true lunar years come out to be almost exactly an even number of days-10,631.016.

The lunar year, whether it is 354 or 355 days in length, does not, however, match the cycle of the seasons.

The solar year is 11 days longer than the lunar year.

However, many Chinese still clung to the traditions connected with the lunar year.

Solar and lunar years are used by different societies in daily life.