BILINGUAL VIDEO丨9 things you may not know about Spring Festival, Episode III
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Spring Festival is not unique to China
春节不只中国有
Apart from China, there are many other countries in the world where the Lunar New Year is celebrated as an official holiday, namely South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Mauritius, Myanmar and Brunei.
世界上除了中国之外，还有许多国家把农历新年列为法定假期，分别是：韩国、朝鲜、越南、马来西亚、新加坡、印尼、毛里求斯、缅甸、文莱。
New Year's Eve may fall on the 29th day of the 12th lunar month
大年三十也会在“二十九”
The number of days on the lunar calendar is determined by the motions of the Earth, moon and sun. However, it takes the moon 29.53 days on average to cycle from one full moon to the next. So, it is quite normal that there are only 29 days in a lunar month. If this occurrence appears in the 12th lunar month, New Year's Eve will fall on the 29th day.
因为现行农历是根据地球、月亮、太阳三者运行的天文数据来安排的。而事实上，月亮圆缺变化周期平均是29.53天。因此，一个月没有30天在农历中是很正常的事情。如果这个月刚好是腊月，那么这一年（农历）就没有大年三十了，除夕也就提前到了腊月二十九。
Spring Festival may be celebrated twice a year
春节可能过两次
If the 2nd lunar month of a year is a Leap Month or an intercalary month, the Spring Festival may be celebrated twice. It only happens 6 times between 1645 (when the Leap Month system was officially launched) and 2800–1651, 2262, 2357, 2520, 2539 and 2643 exactly. In those circumstances, normally the first occurrence of the Spring Festival is celebrated.
闰春节，又称“闰正月”，从公元1645 年使用历理置闰制开始，到公元2800 年，农历闰正月只发生6 次，其年份分别是1651、2262、2357、2520、2539、2634 。碰到这种情况，原则上春节过第一个正月的。（编译/赵汉青 出镜/杨佳欣 审校/陈行洁）
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