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But why not stick with Chinese New Year? After all it's not Hijri New Year, which is actually lunar.
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Is the same event celebrated outside of China and its diasporas?
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why not stick with Chinese New Year?
Because China uses both traditional and Gregorian calendars depending on the purpose. If you order on credit from Alibaba, the factory won't send an invoice demanding payment by some date in 4721 🙂
Emyr
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As a shorthand to distinguish it from the strictly solar year change used in European time keeping.