At the start of a new year, we become increasingly aware of the marking of time into significant chunks and milestones. Yet, ...

Lunar New Year — also commonly called Chinese New Year — marks the start of the new year based on lunar calendars, or monthly cycles of the moon's phases. The lunar new year starts with the ...

Thanks to the regular repetition of these moments, since ancient times, the lunar phases have been the basis of the lunisolar calendar. However, it was difficult to establish the exact moment of ...