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Various New Years |
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Greetings of the New Year! This greeting would often be heard in the coming times, as the people all over the world would welcome a New Year with much enthusiasm and fervor. A New Year brings along much merriment and cheerfulness in every part of the world. Everyone gets overjoyed with only the thought of celebrating the starting of a New Year, as this is the only festival, which is deprived of any religious constraints and thus can be celebrated with anyone irrespective of caste, creed or color. But it is not only the month of January, which is known as the starting of a New Year.
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| Various cultures and countries have their own set of months reserved for New Year celebrations also apart from the international New Year, which amounts to various New Years celebrated throughout the world.The history of the celebrations of New Year dates back to 4000 years ago when it was celebrated for the first time in ancient Babylon. Since then the New Year came to be celebrated in every culture existing in the world. Every culture and country has different reasons and measures to calculate the New Year's date.
| | Some regard the starting of the spring season as the appropriate time for New Year, while some consider the time between the harvesting seasons as the ideal time for New Year celebrations.
No matter whatever reason is attributed for the New Year celebrations but the fact remains that the time of New Year brings happiness for everyone and is thus an occasion of festivities and merriment for every person on earth.
The major New Year celebrations known in the world are Hogmany, Hanukkah, Lunar New Year, Hmong New Year, Indian New Year, Jewish New Year, Chinese New Year Japanese New Year and Vietnamese New Year. Thus we at 123NewYear have come up with relevant information on these various New Year celebrations under the following categories. |
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