Editing New Year's Day (section)

===East Asian===
[[File:Chinese New Year decorations along New Bridge Road, Singapore - 20150215.jpg|thumb|[[Chinese New Year]] decorations along [[New Bridge Road]] in [[Singapore]]]]
*[[Chinese New Year]] is celebrated in some countries in [[East Asia]], including China, and some in [[Southeast Asia]], including Singapore. It is the first day of the traditional [[Chinese calendar]], a lunar calendar that is corrected for the solar changes every three years (i.e. a [[lunisolar calendar]]). The holiday normally falls between 20&nbsp;January and 20&nbsp;February.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Helmer |last=Aslaksen |date=17 July 2010 |title=The Mathematics of the Chinese Calendar |url=https://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/cal.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224164040/https://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/cal.pdf |archive-date=24 February 2015 |access-date=21 May 2021 |s2cid=140809406}}</ref> The holiday is celebrated with food, family, lucky money (usually in a [[red envelope]]), and many other red things that are believed to bring good luck. Lion and dragon dances, drums, fireworks, firecrackers, and other types of entertainment fill the streets on this day. 1&nbsp;January is also a legal holiday in China, and people celebrate the Gregorian New Year on this day, but it is not as grand as the traditional Chinese New Year.<ref name="Wei Chinese Festivals Gregorian New Year">{{cite book |last1=Wei |first1=Liming |title=Chinese Festivals: Traditions, Customs and Rituals |date=2010 |location=Beijing |edition=2nd |publisher=China Intercontinental Press |isbn=978-7-5085-1693-6 |pages=62–64 |others=Translated by Yue Liwen & Tao Lang |url=https://archive.org/details/chinesefestivals0000weil/mode/2up}}</ref>
[[File:Oseti.jpg|thumb|right|{{nihongo3|||[[Osechi|Osechi-ryōri]]}}, typical [[Japanese New Year]]'s dishes]]
*[[Japanese New Year]] is celebrated on 1&nbsp;January because the Gregorian calendar is now used in Japan instead of the [[Chinese calendar]] (which was in use until 1873).<ref>{{Cite web |last=Thomas |first=Russell |date=9 December 2023 |title=A Tokyoite's guide to a Western-style New Year's Eve |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/12/09/lifestyle/new-years-eve-party-tokyo/ |access-date=1 January 2024 |website=The Japan Times |language=en}}</ref>
[[File:Korea 2013 Seollal 11.jpg|thumb|Koreans wearing {{transliteration|ko|[[hanbok]]}} and playing {{transliteration|ko|[[yut]]}} during the [[Korean New Year]].]]
*[[Korean New Year]] is celebrated on the first day of the traditional [[Korean calendar]] in [[South Korea]]. The first day of this lunisolar calendar, called ''Seollal'' ({{lang|ko|설날}}), is an important national holiday (along with ''Chuseok''),<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xsR3BgAAQBAJ |title=Encyclopedia of Korean Seasonal Customs |publisher=The National Folk Museum of Korea |location=South Korea |year=2014 |isbn=978-89-92128-92-6 |pages=30–46}}</ref> with a minimum of three days off work and school. Koreans celebrate New Year's Day by preparing food for their ancestors' spirits, visiting ancestors' graves, and playing Korean games such as ''[[yunnori]]'' with families and friends. Young children show respect to their parents, grandparents, relatives, and other elders by bowing down in a traditional way and are given good wishes and some money by the elders.
**In addition, South Koreans celebrate the 1&nbsp;January New Year's Day of the Gregorian Calendar, and as a national holiday, people have the day off. The Gregorian calendar is now the official civil calendar in South Korea, so the populace now considers the 1&nbsp;January New Year's Day the first day of the year. South Koreans calculate their age using the [[East Asian age reckoning]] method, with all South Koreans adding a year to their age at midnight of the New Year (of the Gregorian, not the Korean calendar).<ref>{{cite web|first=Hyung-Jin |last=Kim |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/12/south-korean-babies-age-system/ |title=South Korean babies born Dec. 31 legally become 2-year-olds the very next day |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211115183951/https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/12/south-korean-babies-age-system/ |archive-date=15 November 2021 |url-status=live |work=The Denver Post |agency=Associated Press |date=12 April 2019 |access-date=30 December 2021}}</ref> Families enjoy the New Year by counting down to midnight on [[New Year's Eve]] on 31&nbsp;December.
*[[North Korea]]ns celebrate the New Year's Day holiday on the first day of the Gregorian calendar, 1 January. This New Year's Day, also called ''Seollal'', is a big holiday in North Korea, {{Clarify|date=January 2024|reason=Unclear what this is intended to mean.|text=while they take a day off on the first day of the Korean calendar.}} The first day of the Korean calendar is regarded as a day for relaxation, but North Koreans consider the first day of the Gregorian calendar to be even more important.{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}}