The Chinese New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, is a 15-day festival that begins today, Jan. 29.

Zhang Wenzhou, a senior researcher on public relations at the Communication University of China, said that the term "Chinese New Year" has been widely used for a long time in the English-speaking ...

The occasion is celebrated in China and many other Asian communities, and across the U.S. It is an annual 15 ... of the snake. The Chinese New Year follows a lunar calendar based the moon's ...