Lunar festival

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Festivals or commemorations whose dates are not fixed on the solar calendar but instead are recalculated each year by a correspondence between the solar and lunar calendars (known as a lunisolar calendar) are Lunar festivals or lunar holidays.

The solar year is itself recalculated in this way with leap years and leap centuries.

Few Christian holy days (from which comes the word 'holiday') other than Christmas (WP) are calculated without lunar calendars; most are calculated with respect to Easter (WP), which is calculated with respect to the lunar calendar (and with varying degrees of respect for the lunar calendar)

Asian festivals whose origins predate modern times are, in the majority, calculated from the lunar calendar. As in all parts of the world, festivals were created since that time to commemorate historical occasions such as the Taiwanese 'Opium Suppression Movement Day' 禁煙節 , which commemorates the burning of opium in the First Opium War of 1839.

Festivals whose date is calculated with some form of lunar or lunisolar calendar include the moveable feasts of the Christian calendar, some of which are in the following list:

• Buddhist festivals (WP) including Asalha Puja
• Chinese New Year
• Chuseok in both North Korea and South Korea (WP) (although this does not stop the South Korean press from making use of the festival to propagandize against North Korea)
• Diwali (WP), has come to incorporate festivals from three religions, as Christmas and Halloween have, mostly because it is a lunar festival and its date may fall on any of the other festivals' original dates. A bit like having your birthday on Christmas, and everyone celebrating both at the same time.
• Easter
• Hindu festivals(WP)
• The Wikipedia:Muslim holidays Eid Al-Fitr (WP) and Eid Al-Adha (WP)
• People's Republic of China (WP) public holidays
• Hungry Ghost Festival of Singapore (WP)
• Ancient (WP) including Saturnalia
• Public holidays in Taiwan
• Festivals of Thailand (WP)
• Festivals of Viet Nam (WP) including Tết (WP)
• Tibetan festivals (WP) including Dajyur

Jewish festivals such as Passover, Hannukah, Tenth of Tevet, and Seventeenth of Tammuz are commemorations of real historical dates; this recording of history was influenced by the contemporary use of solar calendars.

See also

• Wikipedia search for 'lunar festivals', which is probably the best way to search for festivals in Asia, anyway; there is no Category:Asian festivals on WP, and the rest are not necessarily complete and separated by area and missing small areas like Macau
• Lunar calendar (WP)
• Chinese Zodiac
• Celtic calendar
• Hindu calendar
• Epact The 11 day difference between the solar calendar and the lunar. The lunar is 354 days long
• Lunar Festival on the Wikia site WoWWiki; the Lunar Festival in the World of Warcraft MMORPG (WP). An annual event in the game, its date corresponds to the Chinese New Year