History And Celebration Of Happy New Year

New Year is the juncture of time where we welcome the coming year by saying good bye to the previous year with great spirit and enthusiasm. The whole world is decorated with joy and entertainment. Almost every corner of the world celebrates this event. It is the biggest festival of the world and most ancient also. People overwhelmed with great enthusiasm to celebrate this event. New Year brings hopes, love, prosperity, entertainment, fun and new ambitions and inspiration along with it. The foggy morning, chilly nights, yellow leaves of trees, the warm and golden sunlight and the touch of cool wind make us feel that New Year is coming.

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There is an ancient history behind the celebration of New Year. If we turn back to past we can see that it was first celebrated in Mesopotamia in around 2000 B.C. This event was celebrated in the month of spring on the first new moon light and this tradition had been followed for so many years that is up to 150 B.C. A similar kind of festival also celebrated in Egypt and Persia on the Equinox, which comes under the month of winter season. But after that the Romans change the date of New Year according to Gregorian calendar and fixed the date 1^st January as the first day of New Year. This attempt was taken by the famous Roman king Julius Caesar and till date it is continuing.

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We can see difference in celebration this event through out the world as most of the countries celebrate this event in their own way although the pattern is same all over the world. United States and France organize parades to eulogize the event where in Spain and China people take dinner with their family and then go out for celebration. Natives of Brazils come out on road for celebration; they celebrate New Year festival with colourful props, making loud noises, having festive foods and drinks and with singing and dancing on rocking tunes.

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People generally decorate their houses, go for dinner or lunch with either their family or friends or beloved one. They do shopping for gifts to exchange with their closed ones and even wishing through greetings cards are also very popular whether through online by sending scraps or through purchasing from shops. People buy balloons, firecrackers, and accessories for decoration. Many hotels, restaurants and clubs through party on the New Year evening, roads and buildings are decorated with artificial lights and people play jolly songs to enjoy with full of joy and fun. People also buy new costumes to wear on this event. As the time comes soon, people release balloons in the air, makes sounds in loud and burn firecrackers.

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New year also a good time make resolutions to sustain this happiness and joy through out the year and make life more successful and peaceful. Let’s have a good hope to make good fortune by saying bye to the previous tensions and worries and make it blissful.

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New Year 2011 will be on Saturday and wish you all a very happy and prosperous Merry Christmas and New Year.

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Celebration Of Christmas - The Devine Festival.

Christmas - the prime festival of Christians is now broadly celebrated in the world. It is a holiday generally takes place on 25th December. People celebrate this festival to commemorate the birth of Jesus, the central figure of Christianity. Christmas is the central of Christmas and holiday season and also indicates the beginning of the larger season Christmastide and lasts for twelve days. Although Christmas is celebrated on 25th December but the preparation for Christmas celebration starts many days before. Christmas is festival of gifts, carols and feasts. It is celebrated with great enthusiasm and with great zeal.


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Although Christmas is the major festival of Christians but now it is celebrated world wide. It becomes a public holiday in many countries, even to those places where most of the people are non-Christians. Countries like Japan, Korea, Christmas has become popular and people of these places have adapted many aspects such as gift exchanging, decorations and Christmas trees. Christmas has become a formal public holiday in so many countries such as China, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Thailand, Nepal, Iran, Turkey and North Korea. Among the countries, maintaining the strong Christian tradition, the celebration of Christmas has been developed in corporation with local and regional cultures.
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There are two types of stories regarding the birth of Jesus. Theses Bible accounts are found in the Gospel of Matthew and in Gospel of Luke. According to these stories Jesus was born to Mary, assisted with her husband Joseph, in the city of Bethlehem. The popular story is that Mother Merry gave birth of Jesus in a stable, surrounded by farm animals. Here one Manger has been mentioned, where its stated that "She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn".



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On this special festival all members of family spend together and decorate their houses both inside and outside and spend times in baking cookies, making fudge and preparing a big dinner with all trimmings. They go for shopping to exchange gifts with friends, relatives and loved ones. Children at this time love to spend with their friends and to show their gifted toys, chocolates that Santa Claus brought foe each of them.

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The festival signifies God’s endless love towards people. People on this very day bring Christmas tree and decorate it with various lights, Christmas balls, they also decorate their houses with jingle bells. The concept of Christmas tree has been derived from “Paradise Tree” or “he tree in the Garden of Eden.” On this very day children believe that Santa Claus will come to them and will gift them chocolates, and other gifts. A man wearing red and white clothes and along with eight flying reindeer is known as Santa Claus. Churches are decorated with flowers, beautiful lights, and various beautiful candles and with bells. Music and Carols are played on Christmas evening and people celebrate this evening with having foods and even greet others with beautiful Christmas cards. Christmas stamps are also famous in this regard.

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Christmas generally bring a massage to people to live with love, peace and god is always there with them to give them blessings forever in life.

History And Celebration Of Thanksgiving Day.

People of Canada and United States celebrate Thanksgiving Day with full of joy and with great enthusiasm. It is a harvest festival. People express their thankfulness to god by celebrating this day with their relatives and friends and pray blessing for material possessions and relationships. People of Canada celebrate it on the 2^nd day Monday of October and in United States it is celebrated on 4^th Sunday of November.

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This day was first celebrated by the pilgrims of Plymouth colony. They gave thanks and gratitude to god for helping them during survival a brutal time in winter. They took three days’ feast providing enough for 53 pilgrims and 90 native Americans. They completed their feast by taking Pumpkins, Lobster, Venison, Fish, Clams, Fruits and Squash etc.



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It is one of the biggest festivals in Canada. The story behind celebrating this festival in Canada is different. Here the celebration of thanksgiving is for safely homecoming and not for harvest. Martin Frobisher was trying to find Northern passage to go to Pacific Ocean and after facing so many difficulties he was finally able to come back at home safely and from there people started celebrating this festival.



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During this festival churches were decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, wheat sheaves, corn and other harvest bounty. People celebrate this occasion with taking foods, ceremonial dance and also by sending scraps to their relatives, friends and their beloved one.

Now wish you friends, relatives and beloved one on this festival with nice and beautiful Thanksgiving Scraps and enjoy this occasion with great enthusiasm and with great spirit.