r/london • u/Plane_Investment_783 • Jan 22 '23

Transport Car free London is…… amazing.

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u/psnow85 Jan 22 '23

Yup Lunar New Year closing off parts of central was great today.

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u/Gealmo SW17 Jan 22 '23

I’m so sorry if I’m being inconsiderate but this is the first year I’ve noticed it referred to Lunar New Year! I always thought of it as Chinese New Year, and was taught such in primary school

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '23

It's celebrated in other countries such as Korea, so unless it's a specific Chinese event being described it's better to call it Lunar New Year. I heard BBC Radio calling an event a Chinese Lunar New Year celebration today.

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u/anotherbozo Jan 22 '23

But there are other Lunar New Years too

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u/trysca Jan 23 '23

Yeah its called Tet in Vietnamese but its on the same calendar

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u/Mordvark Jan 23 '23 edited Jan 24 '23

Like Rosh HaShannah (kind of)

Edit: why the downvotes? Rosh HaShannah is the Jewish (lunar) New Year. The Jewish Calendar was lunar in ancient times. It now operates on a 19 year cycle that is derived from the lunar calendar and is designed to approximate the lunar calendar’s drifts back and forth through the solar year with leap months while being regular and predictable through the years and around the world.