New Year January 1, 2021, What is the History of the Christian New Year?
Happy new year, January 1, 2021. Maybe you have asked why the New Year is always celebrated on January 1st? This has to do with the history of the New Year itself.
New year's eve celebrations are something that people look forward to. The change from December 31 to January 1 is an important moment to mark the new year.
Usually New Year celebrations are celebrated through various activities such as gathering with family, eating together or grilling, fireworks parties, and other activities. In each country, each country also has its own way of celebrating New Year's Eve.
However, do you know the beginning of the history of the AD New Year? Why was January 1 chosen as the time to celebrate New Year's Eve?
Reporting from History, the first new year celebration to honor the arrival of the new year comes from about 4,000 years ago in ancient Babylon. For the Babylonians, the first new moon after the vernal equinox marked the start of a new year.
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The Babylonians celebrated the turn of the year with a religious festival called Akitu. The name Akitu comes from the Sumerian word which means cutting off the spring.
Apart from celebrating the new year, this activity was also carried out to celebrate the mythical victory of the Babylonian sky god Marduk over the evil sea goddess and carrying out important political goals.
Apart from the Babylonians, throughout ancient times, civilizations around the world developed increasingly sophisticated calendars for determining the first day of the year. In Egypt, for example, the year begins with the annual flood of the Nile, which coincides with the rising of the star Sirius.
Meanwhile, the early Roman calendar consisted of 10 months and 304 days, with each new year starting at the vernal equinox. According to tradition, the calendar was created by the founder of Rome, Romulus in the 8th century BC.
The next king, named Numa Pompilius, added the months January and February. Because the calendar was not in harmony with the sun in the 46th century BC, an Emperor named Julius Caesar decided to discuss it with a mathematician. Only then did Caesar determine January 1 as the beginning of the year.
Only after the start of the year was set for January 1, did the other major holidays appear. For example, in the middle of the century, Christians set December 25 as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.
After that period, other celebrations also appeared, one of which was in welcoming the New Year. Geographical differences make New Year's Eve celebrations carried out differently in each country.
In Spain and several other Latin-speaking countries, people will finish off a dozen grapes symbolizing hope ahead just before midnight.
In many parts of the world, such as Italy and the United States, there are always nuts on New Year's Day which are considered to resemble coins and mark future financial success.