Lunar New Year: The legend behind the Chinese lion dance

The lion dance is a Chinese tradition performed on big occasions, such as Lunar New Year. Here is how this custom came about.

Lion dancers perform during the Georges River Lunar New Year Festival in Sydney, Saturday, January 18, 2020. Source: AAP Image/Jeremy Ng

Asian communities within Australia are geared up to bring in the Year of the Pig at Lunar New Year celebrations on February 5. 

What you may not know is that most of the Lunar New Year celebrations in East Asian communities are based on the Chinese lunisolar calendar, and not the lunar calendar.

The Chinese lunisolar calendar indicates both the moon phase and the time of the solar year.

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