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Why “Spring Festival” Is More Accurate
The term “Lunar New Year” is widely used in English-language contexts to describe the traditional New Year celebration associated with Chinese culture and several East and Southeast Asian societies. However, from the perspectives of calendrical science, astronomy, legal history, and cultural studies, this terminology is imprecise and potentially misleading. This article explains why the terms “Spring Festival” or “Chinese New Year” are more accurate, and why the formulation Spring Festival (Chinese New Year, Seollal, Tết) provides a clearer and more inclusive framework without conflating fundamentally different calendars
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