What English name is also used for Chinese New Year?

The English name also used for Chinese New Year is Spring Festival. In Chinese, the festival is called 春节 (Chūnjié), a name that connects the celebration with the traditional beginning of spring in the lunisolar calendar.

Chinese New Year begins on the first day of the first month of the traditional Chinese calendar. Its date shifts each year because that calendar is lunisolar; the celebration generally begins between January 21 and February 20 in the Gregorian calendar. Festivities commonly continue through the Lantern Festival on the 15th day.

Spring Festival became an official modern name in China during the early 20th century. The term is not the same as Lantern Festival, which closes the traditional New Year period, or Mid-Autumn Festival, which occurs months later. “Lunar New Year” is also widely used in English, although the traditional Chinese calendar is technically lunisolar rather than purely lunar.