The Earth, a blue marble floating through the vastness of space spinning around our sun, and us humans see that latter part as a thing to celebrate a revolution, or more commonly known as a year is celebrated every time that it starts.
New year’s in places like the U.S or England celebrate with fireworks, loud music, and hanging out celebrating with friends.
The celebration happens from Dec 31 to Jan 1 but most on Dec 31, well that is in most places.
Many other places celebrate their new year’s at different time and have some slight differences in how they do it so let’s take a look and see what the world has to offer.
Some of the first celebrations that come to mind might be Chinese New Year, celebrated around Jan. 21 – Feb. 21, depending on the new moon of the first lunar month as they use a Lunisolar calendar.
Celebrations consist of putting up decorations like lanterns and paper cutting, giving red envelopes to children and elders along with other gifts, and a reunion dinner on new year’s. According to Alan yang the celebration is a sort of spring festival which in Chinese mythology is where all life comes from.
Another different New Year is in Thailand, that they call their celebration Songkran. They celebrate from April 13-15.
They go around water splashing, cleaning houses and Buddha statues, and exciting street and beach parties.
The parties mainly consist of grabbing a drink, listening to some good music and having fun with friends.
Local bars and pubs often throw great Songkran parties.
Then there is the Islamic New Year which changes every year by 9 days.
In 2022 it happened on July 28th and in 2023 it was July 19th then started their month-long celebration with 10 days of mourning; some even participated in fasting and prayer as well.
When looking at other celebrations, the 10 day mourning makes it one of the most different traditions as it is about mourning and not celebrating.
And though this may only be a few of the many different celebrations that are enjoyed by the world, it should hopefully be interesting to see how these different cultures share this holiday with us.
I would look into it more if you can there is a lot of interesting information out there.
