More than 300 million people in Iran and beyond celebrate the ancient holiday. It’s tied to the spring equinox and has roots in the Persian Empire. Here’s what to know.

Thursday, March 20, 2025, marks the Persian New Year, or Nowruz, a holiday that's been celebrated for several millenniums, ...

Visiting storytellers will present a traditional Chinese folk tale and a workshop of mask and lantern making Saturday, March ...

Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend, Indiana, is hosting Zoo Luminate, a lantern festival featuring hundreds of oversized LED-lit animals and plants, until May 25. The event, which runs Wednesday through ...

Iran has marked its annual fire festival. The festival is known as “Chaharshanbe Souri” in Farsi. It comes a week before ...

Zoo Luminate will be open Wednesday through Sunday each week, 6-10 p.m., through May 25, just in time for the regular zoo season, which opens on March 28. To learn more details about the event or see ...

Indonesia, home to the world's largest Muslim population, is set to celebrate Eid al-Fitr on March 31. The holy month and the subsequent Eid celebration are deeply tied to the homecoming tradition, ...

Lanterns feature heavenly palace in Chinese mythology at Zigong Lantern ... two heroes from the Three Kingdoms (220-280) during this year's Spring Festival temple fair, wrapped up on Feb 12. In the ...

The longstanding Chinese restaurant on Pacific Coast Highway shut its doors after dinner service on Saturday. Mar. 15 in ...

Tickets are now on sale for the Erie Zoo’s first-ever Chinese lantern festival, commemorating their 100th year in the ...

The Chinese Lantern Festival will return to Franklin Square this summer, and it’ll once again be loaded with steel-framed and ...

China sending more than 70,000 “New Year care packages” to overseas Chinese is an attempt to promote “united front” tactics, ...