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Chinese New Year
Posted by: hherawati on: January 3, 2008
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Chinese New Year or Spring Festival (simplified Chinese: 春节; traditional Chinese: 春節; pinyin: Chūnjié), or the Lunar New Year (simplified Chinese: 农历新年; traditional Chinese: 農曆新年; pinyin: Nónglì xīnnián), is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays. It is an important holiday in East Asia. The festival traditionally begins on the first day of the [...]
Modern new year celebrations
Posted by: hherawati on: January 3, 2008
The most common modern dates of celebration are listed below, ordered and grouped by their appearance relative to the conventional Western calendar.
January
1 January: The first official day of the year in the Gregorian calendar used by most countries.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, the civil New Year falls on 14 January (1 January in the Julian [...]
NEW YEAR CELEBRATION
Posted by: hherawati on: January 3, 2008
ANCIENT NEW YEARS
The celebration of the new year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago. In the years around 2000 BC, the Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon (actually the first visible cresent) after the Vernal Equinox (first day of spring).
The beginning [...]
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