All the Chinese diaspora I know just say 新年. And it reveals an important point: nobody cares about Solar New Years relative to Chinese New Years, so there's no point to even talk about Solar New Years, meaning there's no ambiguity when people say 新年. For Chinese New Years, there's traditions that are still followed with various degrees of observance. Meanwhile, there's no tradition associated with Solar New Years. What do you have to do exactly before 1/1? People have (Solar) New Years Eve parties, but that isn't really a tradition either because it's not like those parties have any act that you have to do right before 1/1. Food and beverages are basically Christmas leftovers or things already associated with Christmas like eggnog.

I suppose it makes sense since Christmas is technically 12 days (hence the Christmas carol 12 Days of Christmas). Christmas Day is the one people think when they hear Christmas because USians poor understanding of Christianity cause them to think Christmas is only one day instead of twelve, which eventually got exported to non-Christian countries like Japan. 1/1 is the 8th day of Christmas and the feast associated with it is the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ to commemorate when Jesus got circumcised.

That’s what Chinese people who have settled down outside of China have been calling for more than a century

Is that true? I can't find a source for that and only remember this term being common in the last decade or so

I meant "Lunar New Year" in English btw

I'm not disagreeing that people call it the Lunar New Year, however I was highlighting that calling it the capital L Lunar new year makes it seem it was the only or the most predominant lunar new year when there are others and the Chinese calendar actually being lunisolar and not purely lunar does a disservice.

Like any other diaspora term (唐人街 is a big one despite how far removed we are from the Tang dynasty and dynastic rule as a whole), it tends not to encompass the whole.

在国内我遇到了很多不同的说法，可是外国人不了解这个方面。

加上“农历” being more specific as opposed to “阴历” 我觉得也重要

Fascinating, I’m Chinese diaspora but we always called it 春节 or 新年 in our house, I assume because my parents are from mainland China. Actually I think we most commonly just say “过年” in casual conversation because I can’t think of a lot of situations in which we would have to specify which holiday we’re referring to when January-February rolls around and the preparations begin.

Yeah pretty much, Lunar New Year is not even the most important holiday compare to Winter Festival if you really want to be traditional. Most people are just ok to receive wishful holiday sentiment, don't over complicate thing

Never understand the controversies behind it. I guess every societies need their "Happy Holiday vs Merry Christmas" debate

It's fine either way, {新年|xīnnián} is very common as is {春节|chūnjíe}, however "Chinese New Year" is basically non existent in here China. As I said, none are explicitly wholly inaccurate, but calling it purely "Lunar New Year" is somewhat inaccurate and implications re: the other lunar calendars that aren't east Asian.

I do this whenever I can't go home for it.

"Happy Spring Festival!"

"Mate it's 37°C and the Triple J Hottest 100 was last weekend what about this seems like it's spring?"

A lunisolar calendar will have aspects of both. While the time of year will be based on solar events like it's position in the sky, equinoxes solstices and such, certain holidays are based on cycles of the moon.

This means a year is still roughly 365 days (with some years having an extra month to remain in sync)

A purely lunar calendar would be the Islamic calendar, a year being defined as 354 days, so it's currently in winter (in the northern hemisphere) but will take place 11 days earlier every year until it syncs up again in 33 years.

The date of Easter was based on lunisolar timekeeping as it traditionally takes place on the first full moon after the spring equinox (in the northern hemisphere) which is why it's date varies (unlike most other Christian feasts, which are based purely on solar dates).

Spring Festival, likewise, will always be between Jan 20th and Feb 21st every solar year unlike the Islamic new year which is 11 days earlier every single solar year.