Christmas traditions - New Year - 1st January

New Year's Day

New Year's Day is observed on 1 January, the first day of the year. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1. This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and the Roman calendar. Other cultures observe their traditional or religious New Year's Day according to their own customs.



NEW YEAR TRADITIONS

Traditional and modern celebrations:

New Year's Eve- This day is traditionally a religious feast, but since the 1900s has also become an occasion to celebrate the night of 31 December-New Year's Eve-with parties, public celebrations (often involving fireworks shows) and other traditions focused on the impending arrival of midnight and the new year. Watchnight services are also still observed by many. In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated at evening parties, where many people dance, eat, drink, and watch or light fireworks.


New Year's Eve traditions that start the year off right

Eat 12 grapes at midnight

Decorate a New Year tree

Set your New Year's intention

Give a toast to remember

Light those sparklers

Don't forget the confetti


New Year's Day

  • Several major parades are held on New Year's Day, including the London's New Year's Day Parade, Pasadena's Tournament of Roses Parade (also known as the "Rose Parade"), and Philadelphia's Mummers Parade. In the Bahamas, it is also associated with Junkanoos.
  • Beginning in the 2010s, it is also the day that First Day Hikes takes place in the fifty state park systems of the United States.
  • The Vienna Philharmonic orchestra traditionally performs a New Year's concert on the morning of New Year's Day.
  • A "polar bear plunge" is a common tradition in some countries, where participants gather on beaches and run into the cold water. Polar Bear Clubs in many Northern Hemisphere cities have a tradition of holding organised plunges on New Year's Day, and they are often held to raise money for charity.
  • In Ireland, New Year's Day was called Lá na gCeapairí, or the day of the buttered bread.
  • of course, fireworks are necessary part of the New Year's celebrations


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