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New Year is the occasion to greet the new time with all its grandeur. The very idea of rejoicing on the onset of the first day of the year is there in almost every culture. The celebration of New Year is the oldest of all the carnivals. The history of New Year Celebration and New Year holiday however dates back to almost 2000BC. It was in ancient Babylon where for the very first time New Year celebration was gestated. That was perhaps just the beginning of the formation of a new concept of festival and in the modern era New Year festivities teemed with New Year holiday has gained a fresh facet fastened with all the modern approach. The choice of the New Year holiday depends on the date of New Year celebration which is again not only typically provincial but also culture and country specific.
Throughout history the ancient peoples did celebrate the New Year in accord to the vernal or autumnal equinox, or to the summer or winter solstice however it is in the Middle Ages New 25 th March became the New Year day later. It is with immense modernization of New Year and with the adoption of the Gregorian calendar it is the 1 st January which is regarded as the New Year time and is also reckoned as the New Year holiday.
Not only here is the dissimilarity in date but also there are variations in the New Year holiday celebration and enjoyment for different religion and culture. Mostly, New Year countdown begins from the Christmas time and it is with buying of new clothes, preparing traditional New Year recipes, decorating the homes and with the New Year party celebration the New Year holiday gains a class of its own.
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