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About New Year
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New Year means beginning of new period. People welcome New Year by celebrating in different style with broad smile on the face, leaving all the sadness behind.
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There is a tradition of gifting on New Year to your loved ones. This is a way of expressing love, care and feelings towards your loved ones. As the clock strikes 12 people bid farewell to old year and welcome New Year. It is one of the oldest and popular festivals celebrated all over the world. Every country has their own tradition and date of celebrating New Year because they follow different calendars. New Year Day is celebrated on 1st January in most of the countries following the Gregorian calendar. According to Roman calendar it is celebrated on 1st March as March is the first month out of ten months in Roman calendar.
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Then Numa Pompilius added two months namely January and February and divided the year into 12 lunar months. After that New Year celebrations started in January but people of Rome were continued the celebrations in the March. In 46 B.C. January 1st was declared as an official date of celebrating New Year by the Roman emperor Julius Caesar.
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Around 2000 years back in Mesopotamia first New Year celebrations were noticed, which was celebrated by Persians, Phoenicians, and the Egyptians in the mid-march at the time of Equinox. On the other hand, on winter solstice, Greeks celebrated it.
People celebrate this occasion by dancing on the tune of DJ, eating mouth-watering food, full night party in bars and clubs and taking New Year resolutions. New Year parties excites people world wide. Some people plan their New Year holidays in different countries and on the river cruise. Everybody tries to make their event memorable and life time experience.
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