Lunar New Year: The Year of the Fire Horse Explained

• Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year or Spring Festival, marks the end of winter and beginning of spring, celebrated across East Asian countries.
• The festival involves 15 days of celebrations, culminating in the Lantern Festival, and is a cultural reset rooted in renewal, reunion, and hope.
• Unlike the solar calendar, the lunar calendar follows the moon's phases, causing the holiday to fall on different dates each year, between late January and mid-February.
• Each year honors a different animal from the 12-animal Chinese zodiac, with the current year being the Year of the Horse.
• The Year of the Horse symbolizes freedom, vitality, and ambition, encouraging pursuit of new opportunities and decisive action, especially for the Fire Horse.