Lunar New Year follows the moon, not the Western calendar. That is why the date moves each year. The festival lasts about 15 days, and the very first day is when people gather for a giant family feast - sometimes with grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins all in one home.
Red is the colour of the festival. People hang up red lanterns, stick bright red paper poems on their doors, and wear red clothes. The colour red is thought to bring happiness and good luck.
Children love Lunar New Year for the 'hongbao' - little red envelopes filled with money. Grown-ups give them to children as a wish for good luck in the new year. You are supposed to receive them with both hands and a polite thank you.
Each year has an animal. There are 12 animals in the Chinese zodiac - rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog, pig - and they take turns. The year you are born gives you your animal. A child born in 2024, the Year of the Dragon, will share their animal with everyone else born that year.