CHINESE NEW YEAR. What to expect this year 2023 according to your Chinese zodiac sign? Is the Lunar New Year placed under the sign of the Rabbit or Water Hare a good sign? Discover the predictions according to your horoscope.
[Mis à jour le 19 janvier 2023 à 07h00] Sunday January 22, 2023, we will switch to a New Year lunar. finished on Water Tigerwe move on to a new animal, the water bunny. Often called the Chinese New Year, this celebration is actually honored in several Asian countries, and for several days. It is also called Spring Festival or Tet Festival in Vietnam.
What influence does the Water Rabbit have on the year? “The year 2023 promises to be a year of hope”. It will end on Friday, February 9, 2024 to make way for the Wooden Dragon. Find out what this year has in store for you under the sign of the Water Rabbit according to your Chinese zodiac sign. But by the way, do you know what your Chinese zodiac sign is, its character, its favorite colors and the personalities associated with it? All the answers in our file below:
How will this year of the Water Rabbit affect your Chinese zodiac sign romantically, financially and healthily? Here are the predictions for the year 2023:
In the Chinese calendar, each year is associated with one of the twelve signs of the zodiac, represented by animals, which returns cyclically every 12 years: rat, buffalo, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, pig. Discover yours, in our file below:
Also, do you know what your element is?
The new year is also linked to one of the five cosmogonic elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water. To know your element in the Chinese horoscope, the years of birth ending with 0 or 1 are Metal, with 2 or 3 are Water, with 4 or 5 are Wood, with 6 or 7 are Fire, with 8 or 9 are Earth.
Each Lunar New Year has its own Chinese horoscope. finished on water tigerwe moved on to a new animal, the water bunny. The Water Rabbit, fourth animal of the Chinese zodiac, is a animal “calm, narcissistic and persuasive“according to the website China.in, event specialist. This animal associates easily with the Goat and the Pig, but very badly with the Rooster.
In Chinese astrology, the rabbit portends a year of prosperity and peaceand “the Water element, which has a very good ability to adapt”, represents wealth in Chinese culture, underlines the specialized site Voyageschine.
When is the Chinese New Year in 2023?
The date of Chinese New Year changes every year as it is based on the lunisolar calendar. This corresponds to the second new moon since winter solstice. It is in the Chinese city of Nanjing, at the Purple Mountain Observatory, that this date is determined. In 2023, the date of the Chinese New Year is set for Sunday, January 22.
A parade is scheduled in the capital and not the least: more than 200,000 people are waiting for it impatiently, especially since it had been canceled since 2019 because of the Covid. This is theunmissable Chinese New Year parade in the 13th arrondissement which takes place on Sunday January 22, 2023. Famous since the 1980s for its lion and dragon dance shows, the parade will start at 2:30 p.m. from 44 avenue d’Ivry then take the following route: avenue de Choisy, place d’Italie, avenue d’Italie, rue de Tolbiac, avenue de Choisy, boulevard Masséna, avenue d’Ivry. It ends at 6 p.m.
On Monday January 23, 2023, another Chinese New Year parade takes place in the 8th arrondissement of Parisorganized by the Faubourg Saint-Honoré Committee, from 2 p.m. at the corner of rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré and rue Royale.
Lunar New Year 2023: a year shorter than the solar year
Chinese New Year or Lunar New Year? While the festivities in honor of the Chinese New Year will be in full swing on January 22, 2023, the official date of the Lunar New Year, the question may arise. Because if drums and parades of dragons are part of folklore, the evolution of the name of the event is still unknown to the general public. This change in wording is however not insignificant… First explanation: the choice of the date of the event, which changes every year.
The globalization and the mixing of cultures that these festivals have brought about can also help to understand this evolution. And for good reason, the Chinese New Year is no longer celebrated only in China, but also in many Asian countries where the Middle Kingdom exercises an important influence. The so-called Lunar New Year is therefore a French formulation which wants to take into consideration the simple fact that other States such as Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia or Vietnam organize festivities for this occasion. The Chinese themselves also speak of “Lunar New Year”, or even of “Spring Festival”.
But then, why this date change? The Chinese calendar is said to be luni-solar, that is to say that the months are fixed not according to the annual cycle of the Sun, as are those of the Gregorian calendar, but according to the regular cycle of the phases of the Moon. As a result, the date of the Chinese, or Lunar, New Year varies from year to year on our calendar. But to prevent the seasons from drifting, the moon calendar must regularly be readjusted to the solar calendar…
To better understand this, it is important to know that the 12 lunar months have a duration of approximately 354 days, which gives us months of 29.5 days, which is 11 days less than in the solar calendar. Every three years, a 13th lunar month is therefore added in order to make this lunar calendar correspond to the solar calendar, and thus avoid this famous unwanted drift of the seasons. All in all, the years do not all have the same number of days, but the Chinese New Year ultimately always occurs between January 21 and February 20 of the Gregorian calendar. And if we base ourselves on the lunar cycle, the event happens very precisely on the occasion of the second new moon since the winter solstice. As with all beginnings of Chinese months, Lunar New Year is the first day of a new moon.