2014 Chinese New Year Friday Jan 31,2014

Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival, is the most important celebration in the Chinese calendar.

Traditionally, it celebrates the start of the season of ploughing and sowing and the arrival of new life.

The festivities start on the first day of the lunar month – this year on Friday January 31 – and continue until the fifteenth, when the moon is brightest.

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China bids adieu to Year of Snake, welcomes Year of Horse

China on Thursday Jan 30,2014 bid adieu to the Lunar Year of Snake and welcomed the Year of Horse as most of its urban population moved to rural areas to celebrate the Spring Festival, also known as Chinese New Year, with their families

"When we bid farewell to the Year of the Snake and usher in the Year of the Horse, a whole new start will be there for each and every of us. That is exactly what Spring Festival is about - to leave the bad behind, and embrace the good ahead", a state-run China Daily said.

Thursday Jan 30,2014 is the last day of the Year of Snake and the Horse year enters from the crack of dawn on Friday Jan 31,2014 in China which has declared holidays for a fortnight