Ni hao, konnichiwa, chomreabsuor, va chao tat ca moi nguoi!
Hello! I'll be teaching you about Lunar New Year, more popularly known as just Chinese New Year.
Okay, jk. It'll be more of some Vietnamese traditions during Lunar New Year and I'll be sharing some of my memories aswell.
Lunar New Year is the first day of a secular, sacred, or other guise whose months are coordinated by the cycles of the moon. The whole year may account to a purely lunar calendar, which is not coordinated to a solar calendar (and, thus, may progress or retrogress through the solar year by comparison to it, depending on whether the lunar calendar has more or fewer than 13 months); or the year may account to a lunisolar calendar, whose months coordinate to the cycles of the moon but whose length is periodically adjusted to keep it relatively in sync with the solar year - typically by adding an intercalary month, when needed. For example, in the Tenpo calendar, a Japanese lunisolar calendar which was used until 1872, the first day of the year is, theoretically and basically, the day of second new moon after the winter solstice (the lunar month which includes the winter solstice is fixed to the eleventh month.)
In the Chinese Chongzhen calendar, the first day of the year is theoretically similarly determined as the TenpÅ calendar as long as there is no leap month between the winter solstice and another solar term Yushui. The leap month in the Chongzhen calendar is added when there are 13 lunar months between a winter solstice and the lunar month which includes the next winter solstice, and the leap month is the first lunar month which doesn't include any of the twelve solar terms. (Wikipedia)
Here is a family celebrating Lunar New Year (specifically, a Vietnamese family):
My name is Kathy and I'm a Vietnamese who celebrates Tet; A.K.A. Vietnamese New Year. I have celebrated with my parents along with the rest of my dad's side in OC. I have many traditions; receiving red envelopes (li xi), eating all the exotic foods made around the new year day, and going to festivals to further explore my culture.
Though I have to say, lion dancing and li xi are my favorite out of all the traditions celebrated on that day.