New Year's Day (UK) January 1 is also a public ****ing holiday. On New Year's Eve people usually stay up late into the night to welcome the New Year. In Scotland, New Year's Eve is seen as the big night and even a more festive time than Christmas.
New Year's Day (Japan) The first day of the new year and a day to pray for luck and happiness in the new year and to draw up plans for the year, it is also the day to go to a shrine or a nearby temple to make the first visit.
New Year's Day (New Year's Day): The Russian New Year used to be celebrated on March 1 in the early spring, when a grand ceremony was held to worship the sun. the festival was changed to September 1 at the end of the 15th century under the influence of the Byzantines. It was not until 1699 that Peter the Great, in accordance with the traditions of Western Europe, designated January 1 as New Year's Day, and at midnight on New Year's Eve in 1669, Peter the Great lit the first fireworks on Red Square and ordered the inhabitants of Moscow to decorate their houses with evergreens such as pines, cypresses, and firs as a sign of good luck. So later fir trees became the main symbol of Christmas and New Year. The Orthodox Church celebrates New Year's Day and Christmas together because of the proximity of the festivals. New Year's celebrations include Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden, who give people gifts and congratulate them on their New Year's. In 1930, the Soviet government made New Year's a national holiday. In 1930, the Soviet government made the New Year a national holiday. On New Year's Day, every public ****ing place was decked out in festive costumes, and in the city's main squares there were tall, beautiful New Year's fir trees, and in the living rooms of homes there were fir trees with all kinds of small gifts hanging from them, the tower-shaped firs symbolizing the everlasting greenness of life. At 12 o'clock midnight, when the old is replaced by the new, the great autoharp of the Kremlin's Basque Tower chimes loudly, and the radio and television spread the sound of the bells throughout the country. The country celebrates, people open champagne and congratulate each other on the New Year. New Year's Day, which falls on January 14, according to the Russian calendar, is celebrated again as usual, especially in the countryside.
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January 6 Epiphany (Epifania) January 6 (Italy) La Fête des rois (The Coming of the Three Kings), (France)
Epiphany (Epifania) January 6
Epiphany (Epifania), (France)
A holiday commemorating the Epiphany of Jesus, and an Italian children's day. Legend has it that on this day Befana, a witch on a broomstick, came in through the chimney of the roof and gave gifts to children in their boots. Adults then put all sorts of gifts for children in their boots and put them on the fireplace, while naughty children would receive candy that looked like lumps of black charcoal.
La Fête des rois, January 6, on which it is customary to eat a kind of pancake;
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January 14, the day of the Three Kings. >
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January 15 Adults' Day (Japan)
January 15 Adults' Day is a holiday celebrating young men and women who have reached the age of 20 and have become adults and self-sufficient, and there are ceremonies in which the administrative bodies of cities, towns and villages hold rites of passage.
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Spain ----SaintAnthonyAbbot Festival (January 17):
City of LaPuebladeMallorca. It originated before 1365 AD. On the day of the festival, huge beacons are lit in the middle of the streets. The famous "CancionersdelCamp" band sings to the rhythm of bamboo sticks and tambourines. The "Collade Demonis" dance group joins in the festivities with guitar playing and dancing. In addition, young men and women dressed up in old-fashioned traditional costumes performed dances, and a public blessing ceremony was held in front of the Saint Anthony altar.
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Spain ---- Tamborrada (Drumming Festival) in the city of San Sebastian (January 19 and 20):
City of San Sebastian (in the province of Guipuzcoa). On the evening of the 19th, groups of drummers parade around the city to the deafening sound of drums. In the morning of the following day, the "Tamborrada Infantil" (children's drum corps) is performed, and in the evening the patron saint of the city is celebrated.
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India ---- Saraswati
Generally celebrated between January and February of the Gregorian calendar, it is a Hindu festival. During this period, Hindus honor Saraswati, the goddess of knowledge.