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New Year celebrations

New Year celebrations

  • Chinese New Year
    Chinese New Year, known in modern Chinese as the "Spring Festival" (simplified Chinese 春节; traditional Chinese 春節; Pinyin: Chūn jié ), is an important Chinese festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.
  • Nowruz
    Nowruz (Persian: نوروز‎‎ Nowruz; [nouˈɾuːz]; literally "New Day") is the name of the Iranian New Year, also known as the Persian New Year, which is celebrated worldwide by Iranian people, along with some other ethno-linguistic groups, as the beginning of the New Year.
  • Losar
    Losar (Tibetan: ལོ་གསར་, Wylie: lo-gsar, Nepali: ल्होसार) is the Tibetan word for "new year".
  • Malanka
    Malanka (Russian: Щедрый вечер Schedry vecher — Generous Eve, Belarusian: Шчодры вечар, Ukrainian: Маланка) is a Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian folk holiday celebrated on 13 January, which is New Year's Eve in accordance with the Julian calendar (see Old New Year).
  • Novruz in Azerbaijan
    Novruz in Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Novruz Bayramı) is a traditional holiday, which celebrates the New Year, and the coming of Spring in Azerbaijan Republic and Iranian Azerbaijan.
  • Japanese New Year
    The Japanese New Year (正月 Shōgatsu) is an annual festival with its own customs.
  • Songkran (Thailand)
    (For other related new year festivals of South and Southeast Asia, see Songkran. For the related Lao festival of the same name, see Songkran (Lao).) The Songkran festival is the Thai New Year's festival.
  • Vienna New Year's Concert
    The New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic (German: Das Neujahrskonzert der Wiener Philharmoniker) is a concert of classical music that takes place each year in the morning of New Year's Day in Vienna, Austria.
  • Cambodian New Year
    Cambodian New Year (Khmer: បុណ្យចូលឆ្នាំថ្មី) or Choul Chnam Thmey in the Khmer language, literally "Enter New Year", is the name of the Cambodian holiday that celebrates the New Year.
  • New Year
    New Year is the time at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar's year count increments by one.
  • Kha b-Nisan
    Kha b' Nisan or Ha b' Nisin, also Ha b' Nison; ܚܕ ܒܢܝܣܢ "First of April", Resha d'Sheta; ܪܫܐ ܕܫܢܬܐ "Head of the year" in Assyrian, also known as Akitu, or Assyrian New Year is the spring festival among the Assyrians, celebrated on 1 April.
  • Tsagaan Sar
    The Mongolian Lunar New Year, commonly known as Tsagaan Sar (Mongolian: Цагаан сар / ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠨ ᠰᠠᠷᠠ; Buryat: Сагаан һараб Sagaan hara; Oirat: Цаһан сар, Cahan sar or literally White Moon) or the Arctic New Year, is the first day of the year according to the Mongolian lunar calendar.
  • Old New Year
    The Old New Year or the Orthodox New Year is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the New Year by the Julian calendar.
  • Yhyakh
    Yhyаkh (Sakha: Ыhыах) is the New Year holiday in Sakha Republic.
  • International Astrology Day
    International Astrology Day (most often observed on either March 20 or March 21) is an annual observance/holiday celebrated by astrologers and astrology enthusiasts.
  • Korean New Year
    Korean New Year (Hangul: 설날; RR: Seolnal; MR: Sŏllal, also known as: Wondan (원단; 元旦), Wonil (원일; 元日), Sinwon (신원; 新元)) is the first day of the Korean lunar calendar.
  • Rose Parade
    The Rose Parade, also known as the Tournament of Roses and the Rose Parade presented by Honda, is part of "America's New Year Celebration" held in Pasadena, California each year on New Year's Day (or on Monday, January 2 if New Year's Day falls on a Sunday).
  • Tết
    Tết ([tet˧˥] or [tɜːt˧˥]), or Vietnamese New Year, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture.
  • Garland
    A garland is a decorative wreath or cord (typically used at festive occasions) which can be hung round a person's neck or on inanimate objects like Christmas trees.
  • Islamic New Year
    The Hijri New Year, also known as Islamic New Year (Arabic: رأس السنة الهجرية‎‎ Raʼs al-Sanah al-Hijrīyah) is the day that marks the beginning of a new Islamic calendar year, and is the day on which the year count is incremented.
  • Davao City Torotot Festival
    The Davao City Torotot Festival is a festival celebrated in Davao City every New Year's Eve which involves the blowing party horns, or what are more commonly known to Filipinos as torotots.
  • New Year card
    A New Year card is a secular version of a Christmas card.
  • New Year's Day
    (For other uses, see New Year's Day (disambiguation). For the day itself, unrelated to celebration of the New Year, see January 1.)("Happy new year" redirects here. For other uses, see Happy New Year (disambiguation).)
  • Nyepi
    Nyepi is a Balinese "Day of Silence" that is commemorated every Isakawarsa (Saka new year) according to the Balinese calendar (in 2016, it falls on March 9).
  • Songkran (Lao)
    Lao New Year, called Songkran (Lao: ສົງກຣານ, [sǒŋkràːn]) or Pii Mai (Lao: ປີໃໝ່, [pìːmāi]), is celebrated every year from April 13/14 to April 15/16.
  • Sangken
    The Sangken festival is celebrated in Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, India, as the traditional New Year's Day from 13 to 15 April by the Buddhist Community.
  • Enkutatash
    Enkutatash (Ethiopic እንቁጣጣሽ) is the first day of the New Year in Ethiopia.
  • Nortia
    Nortia is the Latinized name of the Etruscan goddess Nurtia (variant manuscript readings include Norcia, Norsia, Nercia, and Nyrtia), whose sphere of influence was time, fate, destiny, and chance.
  • Sinhalese New Year
    Sinhalese New Year, generally known as Aluth Avurudda (Sinhalese: අලුත් අවුරුද්ද) in Sri Lanka, is the new year of the Sinhalese people in Sri Lanka.
  • Songkran
    Songkran is a term derived from the Sanskrit word, saṅkrānti (or, more specifically, meṣa saṅkrānti).
  • Mha Puja
    Mha Pujā (Devanagari: म्हपुजा) is an annual ritual performed by the Newar people of Nepal to purify and empower the soul as part of New Year celebrations.