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Who is celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year of the Snake and how?

Several countries celebrate their new year based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar, which is determined by the movements of the Sun and Moon.

The Chinese New Year or the Lunar New Year is a major celebration in many Asian countries and their diasporas around the globe.

Chinese New Year, also referred to as the Spring Festival, is roughly a two-week-long celebration marking the first day of the Chinese calendar year, which lands on Wednesday this year.

Each Chinese New Year revolves around a 12-year cycle and is associated with an animal in the Chinese zodiac, which is then paired with any one of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire and earth.

This new year marks the year of the wood snake.

While its origins are in China, and Chinese communities in countries such as Malaysia, the Philippines and Singapore celebrate under the same name and with similar traditions, others, such as in Vietnam and the Korean Peninsula, have an entirely different name for their Lunar New Year festivals.

The days leading up to the new year are spent thoroughly cleaning households to cleanse the space of any bad luck from the previous year.

This cleaning is believed to welcome good luck for the year ahead. Decorations also go up, including lanterns, paper cuttings and fresh paint – all in a bright red colour, which invites good luck as well.

Celebrations start with a family reunion dinner on the eve of the new year.

As the first day of the new year rolls in, homes fill up with family and friends who come bearing gifts, oranges and red envelopes with small amounts of money, known as ang pao or hongbao, for the little ones.

Greetings and well wishes are exchanged, including the more common Chinese-language phrases Gong Xi Fa Cai, and Xin

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