'Chinese New Year' or 'Lunar New Year'? Both? A display about Chinese New Year at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) was vandalised with the word 'Lunar' crossed out and replaced by 'Chinese.' The incident has sparked a debate on Reddit and the Chinese social media platform Little Red Book (Xiaohongshu) about 'Chinese New Year' being supplanted by 'Lunar New Year'....
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Another Redditor in the same sub explained how the words "Lunar New Year" ended up on the display in the first place: "The whole fiasco began when there was miscommunication between the Student Affairs Office and"What happened was some Chinese Society communities were in charge of organising many new year events, setting up their shows, posters, campaigns and videos et cetera.
"TL:DR miscommunication between SAO and Chinese Society with the usage of the term 'Chinese New Year' and 'Lunar New Year'. Society members had to redo all their materials and campaigns which they had completed.
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