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The other day in Saudi Arabia officially banned from celebrating New Year. But this state is far from the only one where our traditional New Year’s celebration goes completely unnoticed. New Year is not celebrated on January 1 in many countries.

IN New Year's Eve Residents of our latitudes drink champagne, set off colorful fireworks and eat Olivier. It seemed that the whole world was celebrating the New Year at this moment. But this is by no means true. Somewhere thousands of kilometers away, an ordinary Indian or Iranian is quietly snoring on New Year's Eve - in the morning he has a regular working day ahead of him.

1. Saudi Arabia

The religious police of Saudi Arabia Al Mutawa warned citizens and foreigners living in the kingdom about a ban on New Year celebrations. A special unit of law enforcement agencies, announcing the inadmissibility of the celebration, is guided by a fatwa (religious injunction in Islam) issued by the supreme committee of the Saudi ulema (Islamic preachers), since Muslims follow the lunar calendar.

Police officers are contacting shops selling flowers and gifts so that they do not sell a number of goods that can be purchased on the occasion of this holiday. Al Mutawa closely monitors compliance with regulations in strictly conservative Saudi Arabia. However, cases of abuse of power on the part of this department were often recorded, which, in particular, led to human casualties.

The New Year according to the Islamic calendar is celebrated on the vernal equinox on March 21, which almost always corresponds to the first day of the holy month of Muharram. The chronology is calculated from the Hegira (July 16, 622 AD) - the date of the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and the first Muslims from Mecca to Medina.

2. Israel

In Israel, January 1 is also a regular working day, unless of course the first day of the new year happens on Saturday - a holy day for Jews. Israelis celebrate their New Year in the fall - on the new moon of the month of Tishrei according to the Jewish calendar (September or October). This holiday is called Rosh Hashanah. It is celebrated for 2 days. And many traditions, rituals and ceremonies are associated with its celebration in Israel.

As a rule, the traditions of celebrating the New Year in the sense in which it is understood in Europe and in North America, supported by the Russian diaspora living in Israel. And here everyone gets out as best they can. People try to take time off from work and traditionally celebrate the holiday with family and friends. Some people get ready at home, while others go to a Russian restaurant.

Some Israelis believe that celebrants are celebrating the day of the Catholic Saint Sylvester, which falls on December 31. Therefore, the country often calls the New Year “Sylvester”.

January 1 is not a holiday at all in Iran. The country lives according to its own calendar. For example, the year is now 1392 in Iran. Iranian calendar or Solar Hijri - astronomical solar calendar, which was developed with the participation of Omar Khayyam, and has since been refined several times.

New Year in Iran is celebrated according to the calendar on the first day of spring, which corresponds to March 22 of the Gregorian calendar. The New Year holiday in Iran is called Nowruz (or Noruz), and the first spring month is called Favardin.

By the way, Nowruz is celebrated not only in Iran, but also in many countries where the ancient Persians managed to “inherit” a fair amount. For example, the year in Afghanistan begins with Nowruz. Along with January 1, Navruz is celebrated in Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Albania and Macedonia.

There are so many holidays in multicultural India that if we had to celebrate everything, there would be no time to work. Therefore, some of them became “holidays by choice.” On these days, all institutions and offices are open, but employees can take time off. January 1st is one of these holidays.

In addition, there are several other options for celebrating the arrival of the New Year in the Indian subcontinent.

March 22 marks the New Year according to the unified national calendar of India. In Maharashtra it is celebrated as Gudi Padwa and in Andhra Pradesh it is called Ugadi. In Kerala, New Year is celebrated on April 13th. It is called Vishu. Sikhs celebrate their New Year, Vaisakhi, on the same day. In South India, Divapali is widely celebrated in the fall, which also signifies the arrival of the new year.

New Year - in China (where it is now called Yuan Dan) passes quite unnoticed. Only in large department stores and shopping centers, paying tribute to Western traditions, they put up shiny artificial Christmas trees and doll Santa Clauses here and there, and the Chinese send electronic New Year cards to their Western friends. And even then this is done for Christmas, and not for the New Year.

“Yuan-dan” means the first, initial day of the new year (yuan means “beginning”, dan means “dawn”, or simply “day”). New Year in China until the 20th century was counted according to the lunar calendar, and not at all according to the calendar we are used to, and Yuan Dan was celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month.

On September 27, 1949, the government of the newly created Chinese People's Republic decided to call the first day lunar calendar“Spring Festival” (Chun Jie), and the first of January according to the Western calendar is “Yuan Dan”. From now on, January 1st became official public holiday China. But even today, the Chinese still do not celebrate this day, not perceiving it as a holiday, marking the change of years. The “Western” New Year is not a competitor to the Lunar or Spring Festival.

A couple of years ago, Saudi Arabia officially banned celebrating the New Year. But this state is far from the only one where our traditional New Year’s Eve celebration goes completely unnoticed. It turns out that New Year and January 1 are not celebrated in many countries.

On New Year's Eve, residents of our latitudes drank champagne, set off colorful fireworks and ate Olivier. It would seem that the whole world was celebrating the new year at that moment. But this is by no means true. Somewhere thousands of kilometers away, an ordinary Indian or Iranian snored calmly on New Year's Eve, and in the morning he began an ordinary working day.

Saudi Arabia


The religious police of Saudi Arabia Al Mutawa warned citizens and foreigners living in the kingdom about a ban on New Year celebrations. A special unit of law enforcement agencies, announcing the inadmissibility of the celebration, is guided by a fatwa (religious injunction in Islam) issued by the supreme committee of the Saudi ulema (Islamic preachers), since Muslims follow the lunar calendar.

Police officers are contacting shops selling flowers and gifts so that they do not sell a number of goods that can be purchased on the occasion of this holiday. Al Mutawa closely monitors compliance with regulations in strictly conservative Saudi Arabia. However, cases of abuse of power on the part of this department were often recorded, which, in particular, led to human casualties.

The New Year according to the Islamic calendar is celebrated on the vernal equinox, March 21, which almost always corresponds to the first day of the holy month of Muharram. The calendar is calculated from the Hegira (July 16, 622 AD) - the date of the migration of the Prophet Muhammad and the first Muslims from Mecca to Medina.

Israel


In Israel, January 1 is also a regular working day, unless, of course, the first day of the new year happens on Saturday - a holy day for Jews. Israelis celebrate their New Year in the fall - on the new moon of the month of Tishrei according to the Jewish calendar (September or October). This holiday is called Rosh Hashanah. It is celebrated for two days; many traditions, rituals and ceremonies are associated with its celebration in Israel.

As a rule, the traditions of celebrating the New Year in the sense in which it is understood in Europe and North America are supported by the Russian diaspora living in Israel. And here everyone gets out as best they can. People try to take time off from work and traditionally celebrate the holiday with family and friends. Some people get ready at home, while others go to a Russian restaurant.

Some Israelis believe that celebrants are celebrating the day of the Catholic Saint Sylvester, which falls on December 31. Therefore, the country often calls the New Year “Sylvester”.

Iran


January 1 is not a holiday at all in Iran. The country lives according to its own calendar. For example, the year is now 1395 in Iran. The Iranian calendar, or Solar Hijri, is an astronomical solar calendar that was developed with the participation of Omar Khayyam and has since been updated several times.

New Year in Iran is celebrated according to the calendar on the first day of spring, which corresponds to March 22 of the Gregorian calendar. The New Year holiday in Iran is called Nowruz (or Noruz), and the first spring month is called Favardin.

By the way, Nowruz is celebrated not only in Iran, but also in many countries where the ancient Persians managed to inherit a fair amount of heritage. For example, the year in Afghanistan begins with Novruz. Along with January 1, Novruz is celebrated in Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Albania and Macedonia.

India


Multicultural India has so many holidays that if we had to celebrate them all, there would be no time to work. Therefore, some of them have become “holidays by choice.” On these days, all institutions and offices are open, but employees can take time off. January 1st is one of these holidays.

In addition, there are several other options for celebrating the arrival of the New Year in the Indian subcontinent.

March 22 falls according to the unified national calendar of India. In Maharashtra it is celebrated as Gudi Padwa and in Andhra Pradesh it is called Ugadi. In Kerala, New Year is celebrated on April 13th. It is called Vishu. Sikhs celebrate their New Year - Vaisakhi - on the same day. In South India, Divapali is widely celebrated in the fall, which also signifies the arrival of the new year.

China


The New Year in China (where it is now called Yuan Dan) passes quite unnoticed. Only in large department stores and shopping centers, paying tribute to Western traditions, do they place shiny artificial Christmas trees and doll Santa Clauses here and there, and the Chinese send electronic New Year cards to their Western friends. And even then this is done for Christmas, and not for the New Year.

“Yuan-dan” is the first, initial day of the new year (“yuan” means “beginning”, “dan” means “dawn” or simply “day”). The New Year in China until the 20th century was counted according to the lunar calendar, and not at all according to the calendar we are used to, and Yuan Dan was celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month.

On September 27, 1949, the government of the newly created People's Republic of China decided to call the first day of the lunar calendar "Spring Festival" (Chun Jie), and the first day of January according to the Western calendar - "Yuan Dan". Since then, January 1st has become an official public holiday in China. But even today, the Chinese still do not celebrate this day, not perceiving it as a holiday, marking the change of years. The “Western” New Year is not a competitor to the Lunar or Spring Festival.

Not for everyone the night from December 31 to January 1 turns into a stormy holiday. Our selection includes countries where these days are in no way connected with the New Year's mood, and they have completely different holidays to celebrate the New Year.

Saudi Arabia

In Saudi Arabia, the New Year is not only not celebrated on January 1, it is even prohibited here. There is a special unit of the local police that monitors that stores do not sell New Year's goods, and that there are no New Year's celebrations on the streets. The thing is that in Saudi Arabia they strictly follow religious scriptures and celebrate holidays strictly according to them. So the New Year here begins on March 21 - the day of the vernal equinox, which often coincides with the first day of the holy month of Muharram. In general, to celebrate the New Year in Saudi Arabia, you need to have a private party or celebrate the holiday strictly with your family.

Iran

Iran uses the Persian calendar, according to which the new year begins on March 21. This is the day of the spring equinox and the Navruz holiday. Thus, January 1 in Iran is the most ordinary day. Nowruz is more national tradition than Islamic custom, and in this the Iranians are slightly different from the Arabians. Nowruz also kicks off the new year in Afghanistan, and in Albania, Macedonia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey, this holiday has the same significance as January 1st.

By the way, according to Iranian chronology, the year is now 1393.

Israel

For Israelis, January 1 is a working day, no different from others. They celebrate the New Year according to the Jewish calendar, which states that the holiday should be celebrated in the fall, when there is a new moon during the month of Tishrei. This can happen in September or October, so there is no exact date.

Although you have to work on January 1, celebrations are not prohibited, so everyone can take a day off or even a vacation. Considering the large Russian diaspora in Israel, the festive mood is felt these days, but the New Year’s celebration is not on a large scale - it is usually celebrated with family or in a Russian restaurant.

India

In multi-ethnic India there are so many holidays from different cultures that it is not possible to create a single calendar for them. The problem here is solved differently: depending on their beliefs and confession, employees can take time off on those holidays that they consider necessary to celebrate. January 1 is not a national event and there are no global celebrations on this day, but if you want to free up the day and find a company to celebrate the New Year, it won’t be difficult.

At the same time, according to the generally accepted Indian calendar, the New Year should be celebrated on March 22, but, for example, in the state of Kerala the change of year is celebrated on April 13, in southern states Diwapali has its own holiday, and the Sikhs have their own - Vaisakhi.

China

Chinese New Year (Chunjie) falls on a day between January 21 and February 21 and coincides with the second new moon after the winter solstice. The Chinese celebrate this holiday on a grand scale: they set off fireworks, organize noisy processions, hold a large-scale lantern festival and gather for a traditional family dinner, which can only be missed for very good reasons.

But on January 1, everything is much more prosaic. This is a day off, and artificial Christmas trees and figurines of Santa Claus appear in stores, but this is rather a tribute to the multinationality of China, and there are no mass noisy celebrations on either December 31 or January 1.

Vietnam

The Vietnamese New Year is called Tet - this is the most important and popular holiday in the country, which is celebrated on one of the days in late January-early February. Most often it coincides in time with Chinese, but there are also small discrepancies. The principle of choosing the day is the first day of the first month according to the lunar calendar.

The holiday is considered a family holiday, and on the day of its arrival, the Vietnamese try to return from travel to spend time with relatives, remember the deceased and give each other gifts. The scale of the Tet holiday is impressive - the festivities can easily drag on for a week.

Bangladesh

The New Year in Bangladesh is called Bengali and is celebrated completely differently than they are used to in Russia. The holiday begins on April 14, the first day of the month of Boyshak. People wake up early, put on their best clothes and go for a walk. Families or large groups of people go to parks where organized cultural programs with a national slant.

Bangladesh has adopted a prohibition law, so the celebration does not turn into a drunken farce. People communicate, sing, draw, dance, take pictures and just have a good time in a festive atmosphere.

 

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