Some US people like to use the term “Lunar New Year” to express the concept of “Chinese New Year” for better political correctness. However, I guess they don’t know the fact that the traditional Chinese calendar is not a “lunar” calendar, but a “lunisolar” calendar. So actually the Chinese new year is not “lunar” new year, instead, if they don’t want to use “Chinese” here, “Lunisolar New Year” is a better alternative. The concept “Lunar New Year” seems a better fit to the “Islamic New Year(or Hijri New Year)” because it’s purely lunar based.

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