Lunar New Year festivities, celebrated in China, Vietnam and South Korea among others, are ringing in a new year January 29. In China, the event will start the year of the snake. While January 1 is a also public holiday in the country, it is rather insignificant compared to the massive Chinese New Year’s celebration lasting seven days or even longer. The Chinese welcome two new years in short succession and, as our chart shows, a new year is celebrated almost every two months in some part of the world.

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