Who keeps which morning?
Saturday 6 February 2027 is Spring Festival and it is Tết, the first day of Đinh Mùi, the year of the Goat. Vietnamese New Year’s Eve, Giao thừa, is the midnight that ends Friday 5 February. The twelfth lunar month starts on 8 January and has 29 days, so there is no thirtieth. South Korea’s Seollal is Sunday 7 February. Tibetan Losar and Mongolian Tsagaan Sar are often that next day as well. Vietnam sees the kitchen gods off on 30 January.
The foods are not interchangeable: bánh chưng, dumplings, tteokguk, a Tibetan table. The lantern festival is the full moon on 20 February. The collection can hold a named kitchen and should not rename one new year as another.