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{{InfoboxNeue
|title=Red Festival
|image= LNY_Envelopes_012021.jpg
|label1 = Event type
|content1 = United Empire of Earth holiday
|label2 = Subtype
|content2 = Holiday
|label3 = Organizer
|content3 = [[StarCitizen:Humans]]
|label4 = Location
|content4 = [[StarCitizen:United Empire of Earth]]
|label5 = Date
|content5 = Annually during the lunar new year of [[StarCitizen:Earth]]
}}

'''Red Festival''' is an annual [[StarCitizen:UEE]] holiday celebrated in late January or early February. It originated in old [[StarCitizen:Earth]] customs that celebrated the end of the year by tracking the lunisolar cycle instead of the solar cycle. Humans who followed the lunar calendar took their practice with them during the [[StarCitizen:Human Colonial Expansion Era]], often cementing the Red Festival as a tradition as early as the date of a colony’s foundation.

Today, the festival is celebrated by wearing colors that symbolize good fortune such as red and gold, eating long foods such as dyed red noodles or [[StarCitizen:calossk tentacles]], and the exchange of gilded [[StarCitizen:Red Festival Envelope|red envelopes]] containing good luck tokens or credits. Recently, instead of handing the envelope directly to a recipient, givers will hide the envelopes for those deemed in need by fate to discover. [[StarCitizen:Banu]] often join the festivities, hiding red envelopes in honor of [[StarCitizen:Cassa]], the Patron of Luck.<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/galactapedia/article/RAXpZ2z6YY-red-festival|text=Galactapedia: Red Festival|accessdate=2020-12-30}}</ref>

== List of previous festivals ==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan=2 | Lore
! colspan=2 | Real-life
|-
! Year
! Zodiac
! "Auspicious Red" Paints
! Year
! Zodiac
! "Auspicious Red" Paints
|-
| 2956
| [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/transmission/20968-Lunar-New-Year-2026 Rat]
| [[StarCitizen:ATLS series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rat"|ATLS]] ([[StarCitizen:ATLS series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rat"|**]]), [[StarCitizen:F8 Lightning series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rat"|F8C]] ([[StarCitizen:ATLS series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rat"|**]]), [[StarCitizen:Pulse series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rat"|Pulse]] ([[StarCitizen:Pulse series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rat"|**]])
| 2026
| Horse
| -
|-
| 2955
| [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/transmission/20373-Lunar-New-Year-2025 Pig]
| [[StarCitizen:Cutter series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Pig"|Cutter]], [[StarCitizen:Fortune series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Pig"|Fortune]], [[StarCitizen:Cutlass series/Paints#"Destiny"|Cutlass]]*
| 2025
| Snake
| [[StarCitizen:Cutter series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Snake"|Cutter]], [[StarCitizen:Fortune series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Snake"|Fortune]]
|-
| 2954
| [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/19742-Lunar-New-Year-2024 Dog]
| [[StarCitizen:100 series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dog"|100i]], [[StarCitizen:400i series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dog"|400i]], [[StarCitizen:600i series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dog"|600i]], [[StarCitizen:X1 series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dog"|X1]]
| 2024
| Dragon
| [[StarCitizen:100 series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dragon"|100i]], [[StarCitizen:400i series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dragon"|400i]], [[StarCitizen:600i series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dragon"|600i]], [[StarCitizen:X1 series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Dragon"|X1]]
|-
| 2953
| [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/19079-Lunar-New-Year-2023 Rooster]
| [[StarCitizen:Carrack series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rooster"|Carrack]], [[StarCitizen:Pisces series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Rooster"|Fortune]]
| 2023
| Rabbit
| -
|-
| 2952
| [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/18482-Lunar-New-Year-2022 Monkey]
| [[StarCitizen:Constellation series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Monkey"|Constellation]], [[StarCitizen:Sabre series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Monkey"|Sabre]]
| 2022
| Tiger
| -
|-
| 2951
| [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/17985-Lunar-New-Year-2021 Ram]
| [[StarCitizen:Freelancer series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Ram"|Freelancer]], [[StarCitizen:Nomad series/Paints#"Auspicious Red Ram"|Nomad]]
| 2021
| Ox
| -
|-
| 2950
| [https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/17426-Lunar-New-Year-2020 Horse]
| -
| 2020
| Rat
| -
|}
{{Note|*Note: The [[StarCitizen::Category:Cutlass series|Cutlass]] "Destiny" paint was originally given out to the attendants' of the 2024 [[StarCitizen:Bar Citizen]] event in Shenzhen, China. It was later made accessible to everyone for Red Festival 2955.}}
{{Note|**Note: These paints have an alternate version available without the zodiac details on them.}}

== Rewards and gifts ==

==== Red festival 2953 ====
In 2953, participant also earned 3 wood caved roosters<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/comm-link/transmission/19079-Lunar-New-Year-2023|text=Lunar New Year 2953 - Lucky Charms|accessdate=2025-03-19}}</ref>. Long-time participants also received the envelopes from the previous years as collectibles: horse, ram, monkey and current rooster.

It has then become a habit for Red Festival partakers who are lucky or working hard enough to get their hand on an envelope, to keep it as a memento inside their hangar.

==== Red Festival 2955 ====
In 2955, with a growing number of envelope hunters, some festival organizers released a dedicated envelope display shelf to highlight and showcase their collections.<ref>{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/en/pledge/Gear/Red-Festival-Envelope-Display|text=Red festival envelope display - Link now returning 404 from the pledge store.|accessdate=2025-03-19}}</ref>

==Gallery==
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Official=
{{gallery
|Star-citizen-lny-2023-giveaway-prizes-21-9.jpg
|Lunar-newyear-2023-lifestyle-image-21-9.jpg
|Lunarnewyear-envelopemoon-21-9.jpg
|Star-citizen-lny-2023-redenvelope-21-9-4k.jpg
|LNY_Red_envelopes_2953.png
|LNY Envelopes 012021.jpg
|red festival envelope 1.jpg
|Red envelope 2020.png
|Red festival Alt Banner21 new.jpg
|Red festival 2022 banner.jpg
}}
</tabber>

==Trivia==
*Red Festival is likely a reference of {{WP|ref=no|Lunar_New_Year|text=Lunar New Year}} celebrated in some Asian countries.
*The zodiac in lore time does not match with the real life counterpart, as it is calculated using the current lore year.<ref name="cl19079">{{Cite RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/transmission/19079-Lunar-New-Year-2023|accessdate=2023-01-20}}</ref>
*Red Festival 2955 (2025) had a free envelope display offered to players from a link only available on the new launcher. The pledge store item was at $0 allowing player to grab it for free.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/starcitizen/comments/1icjxhx/free_hangar_envelope_display/ Reddit thread discussing the envelope display.</ref>

== See also ==

* {{Link RSI|url=https://robertsspaceindustries.com/comm-link/spectrum-dispatch/19097-Portfolio-Rise-Of-The-Red-Festival|text=Portfolio: Rise of the Red Festival}}

== References==
<references />

[[Category:Lore]]
[[Category:Holidays]]

{{Interlanguage links|Red Festival}}
{{Short description|UEE holiday celebrating the Earth lunar new year}}

StarCitizen:Red Festival - Revision history

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