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News Articles: Lunar New Year

People attend the annual Lunar New Year parade in New York City's Chinatown on Feb. 25, 2024.

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  • National

New York becomes the first state to close schools for Lunar New Year

It's the first time New York students will have the day off for the Lunar New Year since a new state law was signed in 2023. In 2024, the holiday fell on a Saturday.

January 29, 2025
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  • Joe Hernandez
Fireworks light up the sky over Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong on Feb. 11, 2024.

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  • Book Reviews

Looking for love during Lunar New Year

Kick off the Year of the Snake with two romances: Lunar Love by Lauren Kung Jessen, and Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham.

January 29, 2025
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By:
  • Dhanika Pineda
Beijing, China: Dragon dancers perform at a park on the first day of the Lunar New Year of Snake on Jan. 29.

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  • World

Photos: Celebrations commence the Year of the Snake

For many, the Lunar New Year is a time to reflect on people they have lost. But it's also a time to set intentions and welcome the new energy of the future.

January 29, 2025
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  • Manuela López Restrepo

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  • Science

The science and shared history behind the Gregorian and Chinese calendars

Happy Lunar New Year! According to the Chinese lunisolar calendar, the new year began Saturday. For many, like our host Regina G. Barber, this calendar and its cultural holidays can feel completely detached from the Gregorian calendar. Growing up, she associated the former with the Spring Festival and getting money in red envelopes from relatives, and the other with more American traditions. But the Chinese calendar has a deep, centuries-long shared history with the Gregorian calendar.

To learn more about this shared history, Gina talks to scientists and historians, who spill the tea about the science behind calendars, and how both calendars and the Chinese Lunar New Year celebration played a key role in the rise and fall of empires.

Email us shortwave@npr.org for more science history.

February 12, 2024
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  • Regina G. Barber,
  • Rachel Carlson,
  • and 1 more

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  • Author Interviews

Activist Alice Wong reflects on 'The Year of the Tiger' and her hopes for 2023

In the Year of the Tiger: An Activist's Life, Alice Wong shares pieces of her story and experience as a disabled Asian American through a collection of essays, interviews, photos and illustrations.

February 04, 2023
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  • Thomas Lu
Investigators work at the scene of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on Sunday. A 72-year-old suspect was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a white van in Torrance, Calif.

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  • National

The suspected Monterey Park attacker was 72. Here's why older shooters are rare

Amidst the familiar pattern in gun violence stories, the suspect in the Monterey Park shooting appears to be an outlier.

January 24, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
Monterey Park police officers stand at the scene of a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California.

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  • National

Monterey Park community is relieved shooter is no longer a threat, Rep. Chu says

NPR's A Martinez speaks with Democratic Rep. Judy Chu of California, about the mass shooting at a Lunar New Year festival in Monterey Park that left 10 people dead.

January 23, 2023
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  • A Martínez
Flowers are placed near the scene of a deadly mass shooting in Monterey Park, Calif., on Sunday.

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  • National

A suspect in the California mass shooting is dead, sheriff says

A gunman killed 10 people and wounded 10 others in the mass shooting in Monterey Park on Saturday. The incident took place near one of Southern California's largest Chinese New Year street festivals.

January 22, 2023
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By:
  • Emma Bowman and
  • Juliana Kim
A woman poses for a selfie on a bridge decorated with lanterns at a public park in Beijing on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023.

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  • Asia

China is celebrating the Lunar New Year, with most COVID rules lifted

People across China rang in the Lunar New Year on Sunday with large family gatherings and crowds visiting temples after the government lifted its strict "zero-COVID" policy.

January 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press

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  • Food

Hot pot is the perfect choose-your-own-adventure soup to ring in the Lunar New Year

Often eaten with big groups of friends and family, hot pot is a single cauldron of soup with boundless possibilities. Ahead of the Lunar New Year, we joined up with some hot pot aficionados in Queens.

January 21, 2023
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By:
  • Olivia Ebertz
Passengers prepare to board a flight at the airport in north-central China's Jiangxi province on Nov. 1, 2022.

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  • Asia

China says it will resume issuing passports and visas as virus curbs ease

China says it will resume issuing ordinary visas and passports, setting up a potential flood of millions of Chinese going abroad for next month's Lunar New Year holiday.

December 28, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
In some hospitals, like this one in Chongqing, one of China's largest cities, patients are lying on gurneys in the lobby because beds have run out.

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  • Global Health

Fears of a 'dark COVID winter' in rural China grow as the holiday rush begins

Health officials are concerned that people traveling home to their villages for the Lunar New Year could turn celebrations into superspreader events, catching ill-prepared rural systems off guard.

December 23, 2022
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By:
  • Emily Feng
Dancers perform lion and dragon dances during Lunar New Year celebrations in Washington, D.C.'s Chinatown in 2019.

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  • Politics

Lawmakers urge making Lunar New Year a federal holiday

Rep. Grace Meng says she introduced the measure to send the message to Asian Americans that they are a valued part of American society. If the bill passes, it would become the 12th federal holiday.

February 02, 2022
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By:
  • Emma Bowman
At the Main Media Center, the central hub for press, volunteers offered passersby the opportunity to paint calligraphy onto traditional New Year couplets.

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  • World

Chinese hosts share the Lunar New Year with Olympic athletes, personnel and media

Chinese Lunar New Year is being celebrated even within the tightly controlled Beijing Winter Olympics bubble.

February 01, 2022
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By:
  • Jaclyn Diaz
The Chinatown Community Young Lions perform lion dancing at the Lunar New Year Celebration in Manhattan's Chinatown on Feb. 12.

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  • National

Lunar New Year Brings Smiles And Hope Amid Hardships For New York's Chinatown

Crowds have been sparse for the neighborhood that has faced both a spike in anti-Asian violence and mounting economic challenges since the pandemic began.

February 15, 2021
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  • Camille Petersen
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