The Chinese New Year does not start on January 1 and is marked with an animal that holds the fate of its newborns. But Covid19 threatens the celebration once again.
While the rest of the world still shakes the new year’s hangover that closed 2021 and welcomed the 2022, the chinese they wait patiently for their own New Year’s celebration, which does not coincide with the western calendar.
Chinese New Year 2022 will fall on Tuesday, February 1, thus beginning a year of the tiger, which ends on January 21, 2023. According to the Chinese zodiac, people born in a year of the tiger will be brave, competitive, unpredictable and confident. The previous years of the tiger are 1938, 1950, 1962, 1974, 1986, 1998 and 2010.
The chinese predictions They also add that the tigers will face in the year of their birth sign many challenges, so that wear red underwear and socks with piglets will help the tigers to protect themselves from misfortune.
The celebrations Chinese New Year traditionally last 16 days, from Chinese New Year’s Eve to Lantern Festival. In 2022, that is, it will be from January 31 to February 15. As a holiday, the Chinese will have 7 days off from January 31 to February 6, 2022.
The date of the Chinese New Year is determined by the chinese lunar calendar, which is always between 21 and 51 days behind the corresponding date on the Gregorian (international) calendar. Chinese New Year is a new moon day, usually the second after the winter solstice. The Chinese New Year date changes every year, but it always falls between January 21 and February 20.
However, the largest party in China at the moment is threatened for the third time due to the spread of the coronavirus. The plans of millions of people who traditionally cross the country to join their loved ones for the festivities were rejected after the China National Health Commission (CNH) will announce travel restrictions on Saturday, December 18, doubling its ‘zero Covid’ strategy.
According to a publication by Aljazeera, the CNH reported this Saturday, January 1 175 new community infections with confirmed clinical symptoms as of December 31, bringing the total number of local symptomatic cases in mainland China over the past week to 1,151.
The health entity has urged residents of any Chinese city with confirmed cases to do not travel during the upcoming New Years and Spring Festival holidays.
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