China New Year Animal 2024. Observed for centuries, lunar new year, or spring festival, is closely linked to the chinese new year, and is marked by the changing of the zodiac animal to represent the year. The holiday is celebrated by billions of people around the world and marks the arrival of spring as well as the start of a new lunar year.

Chinese zodiac years are based on the lunar calendar, each zodiac animal’s year comes around every 12 years. Chinese new year 2024 animal sign is the green dragon.