Traditionally, years were marked by one of twelve Earthly Branches, represented by an animal, and one of ten Heavenly Stems, which correspond to the five elements. The exact date can fall any time between January 21 and February 21 (inclusive) of the Gregorian Calendar. The Chinese New Year, also known as Spring Festival or Lunar New Year, occurs every year on the new moon of the first lunar month, about the beginning of spring ( Lichun).Lunar New Year A Happy New Year sign in northeastern China Prior to 1873, Japan used a lunar calendar with twelve months each of 29 or 30 days for a total year of about 354 days. In 1873, five years after the Meiji Restoration, Japan adopted the Gregorian calendar. The Japanese New Year (正月, Shōgatsu) is currently celebrated on January 1, with the holiday usually being observed until the January 3, while other sources say that Shōgatsu lasts until January 6.In other nations and locations where Orthodox churches still adhere to the Julian calendar, including Georgia, Israel, Russia, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Ukraine, the civil new year is observed on January 1 of the civil calendar, while those same religious feasts occur on January 14 Gregorian (which is January 1 Julian), in accord with the liturgical calendar. Those who adhere to the revised Julian calendar (which synchronizes dates with the Gregorian calendar), including Bulgaria, Cyprus, Egypt, Greece, Romania, Syria, and Turkey, observe both the religious and civil holidays on January 1. Orthodox nations may, however, make civil celebrations for the New Year. While the liturgical calendar begins September 1, there is also no particular religious observance attached to the start of the new cycle. January 1 is itself a religious holiday, but that is because it is the feast of the circumcision of Christ (seven days after His birth), and a commemoration of saints. The Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar makes no provision for the observance of a New Year. Contrary to common belief in the west, the civil New Year of January 1 is not an Orthodox Christian religious holiday. January 1: The first day of the civil year in the Gregorian calendar used by most countries.Since then, many national civil calendars in the Western World and beyond have changed to using one fixed date for New Year's Day, January 1-most doing so when they adopted the Gregorian calendar.īy month or season January Baby New Year 1905 chases old 1904 into the history books in this cartoon by John T. India, Nepal, and other countries also celebrate New Year on dates according to their own calendars that are movable in the Gregorian calendar.ĭuring the Middle Ages in Western Europe, while the Julian calendar was still in use, authorities moved New Year's Day, depending upon locale, to one of several other days, including March 1, March 25, Easter, September 1, and December 25. Chinese New Year, the Islamic New Year, Tamil New Year ( Puthandu), and the Jewish New Year are among well-known examples. Other cultures observe their traditional or religious New Year's Day according to their own customs, typically (though not invariably) because they use a lunar calendar or a lunisolar calendar. This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and the Roman calendar (after 153 BC). In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1 ( New Year's Day, preceded by New Year's Eve). Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one. For other uses, see New Year (disambiguation).
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