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New Year: history of the holiday
Almaty, January 02, 2010 (Khabar) - Holiday fuss, noisy feasts and merry festivals – everything according to the rules of New Year traditions. Winter holidays last for two weeks. At first people celebrate Catholic Christmas, then New Year, after that Orthodox Christmas and then Old New Year that is absolutely incomprehensible by the foreigners. And the most favorite holiday is night from December 31 on January 01. It seems this was always. But ….
The custom of celebrating New Year was born in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Jews, being in Babylonian captivity, had adopted this tradition. Then the Greeks, and after that other nations of Western Europe. January 1 is the beginning of the year. This rule was introduced by the Roman ruler Julius Caesar in 46 BC, replacing inaccurate lunar calendar. The first day, the Romans dedicated to Janus, god of entrances and exits, doors and all the beginnings.
In Russia New Year was celebrated on March 1 for a long time. In the 15th century, the holiday was moved to September 1. In the early 18th century, Peter I opened a window to Europe and almost imposed a rule of celebrating the New Year on January 14, and still following the Julian calendar. Only after the 1917 revolution first day of the year fell on January 1. By the way, the Bolsheviks didn’t celebrate New Year widely and it was a usual working day until the middle of last century. New Year fir tree is also another reform of Peter the Great. He tried to instill in Russia the German custom to decorate houses with fir branches, but this idea wasn’t accepted. From the ancient times fir tree in Russia had the bad character. Fir forest is gloomy, the practical value of spruce wood was small, and the cones are inedible. According to one historical version, the very first public Christmas tree appeared in the town square Celeste in Alsace in 1521, and the first Christmas toy was made around the same time, in Saxony.
And celebrating New Year with fireworks and firecracker lights began in Asia, and primarily in China. It was believed that the loud noise and bright light away evil spirits. Today, these traditions spread throughout the world. The holiday has become a family and loved by everybody. Good luck in the New Year!
The custom of celebrating New Year was born in Mesopotamia in the third millennium BC. Jews, being in Babylonian captivity, had adopted this tradition. Then the Greeks, and after that other nations of Western Europe. January 1 is the beginning of the year. This rule was introduced by the Roman ruler Julius Caesar in 46 BC, replacing inaccurate lunar calendar. The first day, the Romans dedicated to Janus, god of entrances and exits, doors and all the beginnings.
In Russia New Year was celebrated on March 1 for a long time. In the 15th century, the holiday was moved to September 1. In the early 18th century, Peter I opened a window to Europe and almost imposed a rule of celebrating the New Year on January 14, and still following the Julian calendar. Only after the 1917 revolution first day of the year fell on January 1. By the way, the Bolsheviks didn’t celebrate New Year widely and it was a usual working day until the middle of last century. New Year fir tree is also another reform of Peter the Great. He tried to instill in Russia the German custom to decorate houses with fir branches, but this idea wasn’t accepted. From the ancient times fir tree in Russia had the bad character. Fir forest is gloomy, the practical value of spruce wood was small, and the cones are inedible. According to one historical version, the very first public Christmas tree appeared in the town square Celeste in Alsace in 1521, and the first Christmas toy was made around the same time, in Saxony.
And celebrating New Year with fireworks and firecracker lights began in Asia, and primarily in China. It was believed that the loud noise and bright light away evil spirits. Today, these traditions spread throughout the world. The holiday has become a family and loved by everybody. Good luck in the New Year!
