Lunar New Year celebrations in East and Central Asia, such as Chinese New Year, are based on a lunisolar calendar. The Islamic New Year (also called the Hijri New Year or 1 Muharram) determined by the Islamic calendar, a purely lunar calendar that ignores the solar cycle that is used to reset lunisolar calendars. Although often referred to as 'Lunar New Year' in English, this is a misnomer, as it refers to both celebrations based on a lunar calendar as well as a lunisolar calendar. The Lunar New Year is an event celebrated by millions of people across the world on the first new moon of their calendar. The determination of the first month of a new lunar year varies by culture.

The more well-known celebrations include New Year's Day (or week) in the Chinese calendar and Tibetan calendar of East Asia the Buddhist and Hindu calendars of Southeast and South Asia the Islamic calendar and the Jewish calendar that originated in the Middle East and the Nisga'a calendar from Canada. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in various ways at diverse dates. Lunar New Year is the first new moon of a lunar calendar or lunisolar calendar year, whose months are moon cycles. A family gathering to make bánh tét for Tết celebrations in Vietnam.Korean people wearing hanbok and playing yut during Seollal.

Lunar New Year parade in Manhattan's Chinatown, New York City.

Lunar New Year celebrations in Singapore.

A lion dance performance in Kuala Lumpur.

Fireworks display at Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.

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