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2022: Year of the Tiger

In the Chinese zodiac 2022 is the Year of the Water Tiger. The Chinese Lunar New Year begins February 1, 2022, and starts the 15-day Spring Festival that concludes with the Lantern Festival. The Chinese zodiac rotates through a 12-year cycle of animals and the five elements: wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. The tiger represents courage, strength, and resilience. The Year of the Tiger is followed by the Year of the Rabbit. Different regions across Asia celebrate Lunar New Year in many ways and may follow a different zodiac.

Learn more and celebrate with online and in-person events on our Lunar New Year page.


32c Year of the Tiger single

Tiger near rocks

Stamp with painting of white flowers with yellow centers on green stems against a red background

44c Year of the Tiger single

Forever Lunar New Year: Tiger single

Sumatran Tiger

Tile with zodiac figure of tiger

Year of the Tiger

Tiger and Bamboo

Tiger

Tiger's Head

Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright

Bell (bo) with mask (taotie), birds, and tigers

44c+11c Save Vanishing Species single

A Recumbent tiger

Disk with tiger

Water holder: tiger

Tiger and new moon

Rawat Jaswant Singh hunting

Tiger under snowy pines

Tiger (Tora): Kashiwade no Omi Hatebe, from the series Bravery Matched with the Twelve Animals of the Zodiac (Buyū mitate jūnishi) 「かしわで 寅」 『武勇見立十二支』

Yawning Tiger

Luohan, Attendant, and Tiger

One of a pair of tigers, possibly the base supports for a bell stand

Tiger

Rank badge with tiger

Tiger

Maharao Umed Singh hunting tigers

Sumatran Tiger

Fighting a tiger in snow

A Tiger crouching on rocks

Figure of a tiger

Seated tiger

Tally in the form of a tger (hu fu), fragment

Kakiemon model of a tiger

Crouching tiger

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