General information: Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival. Lunar because it s based on a lunisolar calendar (moon phase and solar year) and spring because it s the beginning of Spring. You celebrate the first day of the chinese calendar‚ but basically it s a long chinese holiday starting from the first day until the Lantern Festival on the last day. It is the time to honor deities and ancestors. New year´s days are celebrated as a family affair and a time
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New Year’s Day was originally in March before the Julian calendar took effect in 45 BC when January and February were added to the calendar.In the early Roman calendar‚ March was the beginning of the year. The name “March” originated from the Roman god of war Mars whom was seen as the guardian of agriculture. “Janus was the Roman god of doors and gates‚ and had two faces‚ one looking forward and one back. “Caesar felt that the month named after this god (“January”) would be the appropriate “door”
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people is beautified with festivals. Festival is acelebration of the changing seasons‚ harvest‚ reconciliation and the birth anniversaries of saints‚ gurus and prophets and honours the gods and goddesses. History of festivals Epigraphical evidences prove that festivals have been celebrated in India since Vedictimes. The Aryans conquered India around 1500 B.C. and cultural integration with thelocal population took place. 1. Religious Festivals A large number of festivals being celebrated in India
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The Greatest Festivals In Islam In Islam‚ celebration is a form of thanking Allah‚ the One True God. Celebration‚ in Islam‚ is merry-making‚ going out to parties‚ visiting and meeting friends and relatives and having clean fun‚ and also a form of physical and spiritual purification. Islamic celebrations include taking a bath‚ putting on clean or new clothes‚ wearing perfume and going to the mosque or a place of congregation for Salat‚ a form of prescribed prayers. The dates and days of celebration
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Julia Deegan Ngan Do Eva Fraga November 15‚ 2012 Compare and Contrast New Year Eve in Different Countries Wouldn’t it be fun to travel around the world and celebrate the New Year all year long? All over the world‚ people celebrate the New Year; This is one of the oldest of all holidays. Most New Year celebrations focus on family and friends‚ food and traditions‚ but not all of the celebrations take place on the same day or in the same way! Because people in different
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Lim Chin Pei Title: Festival Season in Malaysia Malaysia is one of the countries in the world which have multi-racial. Although Malaysia has the most races of citizens in the universe‚ the Malaysia’s residents can live together peacefully. The ethnics of citizens in Malaysia are Malayan (Muslims)‚ Chinese‚ Indian (Hindu)‚ Iban‚ Kadazan and etc. Between‚ the three major ethnics are Malayan‚ Chinese and Indian in Malaysia. Because of the multi-racial of Malaysia‚ there are also many festive season
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Folk Festival The first Kerrville Folk Festival was the best way to learn about different humanities. There were many people from all-over. The first festival was “held June 1 through 3‚ 1972‚ in the 1‚200-seat Kerrville Municipal Auditorium; 2‚800 fans from all over Texas and as far away as Colorado attended the thirteen-performer event” (Rod Kennedy‚ 2013) (para. 1). “The festivals at Kerrville were a direct outgrowth of the Austin Zilker Park KHFI–FM Summer Music festivals (1964–68)
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Sri Lanka’s Continual Civil War The ethnic tension between Sri Lanka’s majority and minority populations‚ the Sinhalese who are mostly Buddhists being the majority and the minority being mostly Hindu and are called Tamil‚ has been going on for many of years. Finally in 1983 the ethnic tensions finally spilled over into civil war. The civil war has been mostly between the government of Sri Lanka and the militant organization called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The LTTE are fighting for
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Burning Man Burning Man Festival Analysis • How would you identify the philosophical background or the intellectual/esthetical/artistic streams that impact the foundation and the organisation of this festival ? • How would you describe its success ? • What is your subjective assessment of events such as this one? • How could this event be introduced to your country - provide a brief outline of a marketing strategy. Burning Man is a week-long annual event held in the Black Rock Desert in
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It’s that time again‚ a new year‚ as the year approach the end‚ the Hmong New Year is celebrated by many Hmong people throughout the world in different months where Hmong people live‚ either that be in October‚ November‚ or December. But no matter what‚ where you find a large population of Hmong people‚ you know there’s going to be some sort of Hmong New Year event taking place that year. From what I remember‚ when I was little‚ my parents took me to the Soccer Tournament (another Hmong event)‚ where
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