What is a Lunar year, and where do they celebrate it?
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The moon is lunar. I think the Chinese have festivals reagrding that. Jews live by a lunar calandar and observe new year at fall. I'm sure there are other groups that do. You might find one who celebrate full monns and go from there. Celtic and others who revere nature.
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Due to the fact that the Chinese New Year to chinese is equivalent to what new year is for the normal calender. Our calendar is based on the justinian calendar and is mostly practiced worldwide as a standard time. Yet other religion and cultures also have their own calendar based system such as the Muslims and Chinese as an example. Both are lunar based calendars. Thus each often follows these in conjunction to the normal calendar due to the fact that certain religious dates and event are based on the lunar calendar and not the normal one. Chinese new year marks the start of a new calendar year for the chinese and thus they celebrate it as so.
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Which New Year do you mean? Different cultures and countries have different New Years'. Yup, surprise surprise! In Sri Lanka the Sinhalese and Tamil population celebrate their New Year in the middle of April. Here the New Year dawns when the sun moves from the period of Pisces to the period of Aries in our horoscope and constellation signs. There's more to it actually, but I'm not familiar with the intricacies. In the Middle East most of the population is Muslim. Muslims all over the World celebrate their New Year in November after a period of fasting. It indicates the period of the beginning of the Winter Solstice and also the New Moon. This could be one of the reasons why the Middle East doesn't celebrate the New Year in it traditional sense, i.e. when the clock strikes twelve midnight on the 31st of December. \nAs said before all cultures and countries have different times and reasons to celebrate the coming of a New Year. But as humans, we're always ready for a party, so most of those countries celebrate the traditional New Year as well :)
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It is the Parsi new year...an indian festival. It's like a new year's for them...and it celebrates the advent of spring and "The symbolic victory of the forces of light over darkness"
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The phases of the moon are the same around the world. What varies is the rise and set time. The US Naval Observatory is a great site for this.
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Basically, Winter Solstice is the shortest 'daylight' day of the year, and Summer Solstice is the longest 'daylight' day of the year.\n\nVarious religions and cultures celebrate these days in a number of ways.\n\nWe BBQ!  The summer one is held outside, with various picnic games, and it is a block party.  During the winter, the party is held indoors at the community center, and is a BBQ potluck, with a pie auction.
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With the Jewish calendar, they started the day at sundown, with the day ending at the next sundown. Their Sabbath or Saturday starts on what is our Friday evening. They had what was called a lunar calendar, 30 day months and 360 day years. Later, the Sabbath day was changed to Sunday by the Church.
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It is the 267th day of this year. On a leap year it would be the 268th day.
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The moon.  Every four weeks there is a "New moon."
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http://www.asianamericanbooks.com/lny_bks.htm\n\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_3807_celebrate-new-years.html
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It is actually "Yug" (era/year) "Aadi" (start). It is the start of a new Hindu Year. Hindu calendar has various months and Ugadi (or Yugadi) is celebrated on the first day of "Chaitra" month. On the 9th day of the month, people celebrate the birth of Lord Rama. In Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra states of India, people celebrate it with lot of pomp and show, while at other places it is a quiet affair.
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Top 10 Chinese Holidays Calendar for the Year of the Dog (2006)\nGuide Picks\n\nFrom Rhonda Parkinson,\nYour Guide to Chinese Cuisine.\nFREE Newsletter. Sign Up Now!\n\nChinese New Year may be China’s biggest excuse for a party, but it’s not the only one. There are many Chinese holidays throughout the year, and most have their own special celebration food. Because Chinese holidays are based on the lunar calendar, the date on the Gregorian calendar changes from one year to the next. Here is a calendar with dates and information about the major Chinese holidays and significant days in 2006, the Year of the Dog. \n1) Chinese New Year – January 29, 2006\nFor millions of Asians, Chinese New Year is more than one special day. Families spend weeks preparing for the big event – cleaning house, painting doors and windows red, and cooking special foods. Celebrations for Chinese New Year, also called the Spring Festival, last a full fifteen days. Learn more about Chinese New Year, the symbolic significance of festive foods, and try New Years recipes. (Date of Chinese New Year Day: first day of the first Chinese lunar month).\n2) Lantern Festival – February 12, 2006\nCan’t wait until Valentine’s Day to celebrate with your sweetheart? The Lantern Festival, marking the last day of the Chinese New Year season, is traditionally a day for lovers. Learn more and try a recipe for Yuanxiao, the sticky rice dumplings that are served at Lantern festival celebrations. (Date: fifteenth day of the first Chinese lunar month).\n3) Kuan Yin's Birthday - March 17, 2006 (March 18th in China)\nWhile the Irish are paying homage to St. Patrick, Buddhists will be celebrating the birthday of the Goddess of Mercy. Learn more about Buddhism's most universally beloved deity and celebrate the day with classic Irish and Asian recipes. (Date: nineteenth day of the second Chinese lunar month).\n4) Ching Ming – the Tomb Sweeping Festival - April 5, 2006\nA gravesite picnic? Why not? The Tomb Sweeping festival is a time for families to honor the memory of their ancestors. Along with “tomb sweeping” – performing standard gravesite maintenance such as removing debris from the gravestones and replacing dead flowers - family members offer gifts of food, fruit and wine to the departed. After a formal ceremony, the food is shared among family members. Another tradition is to burn incense to ward off any evil spirits that may be lurking.\n5) Cheng Chau Bun Festival – May 5, 2006\nEvery year, Hong Kong's tiny island of Cheng Chau holds a celebration honoring Pak Tai, the God of the Sea. The highlight of the three day festival involves a spectacular midnight race up steel towers that have been loaded with Chinese buns. (Date: the eighth day of the fourth lunar month).\n6) Dragon Boat Festival – May 31, 2006\nThere are few sites more spectacular than a fleet of painted dragon boats racing toward the finish line, with a drummer in each boat hammering out the rhythm for the rowers to follow. The Dragon Boat Festival is China’s oldest festival. Find out more about this exciting event and learn how to make Zongzi, the sticky rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves that are an essential feature of any Dragon Boat Festival celebration. (Date: fifth day of the fifth Chinese lunar month).\n7) Chinese Valentine’s Day – July 30, 2006 (July 31 in China)\nThey may not celebrate with chocolate and flowers, but the Chinese have a day devoted to love. Learn more about the legend of star-crossed lovers Niu Lang and Zhi Nu, and try several romantic menus to celebrate the holiday. (Date: seventh day of the seventh Chinese lunar month).\n8) Hungry Ghost Festival - August 8, 2006\nEven ghosts deserve time off. According to Chinese legend, every year ghosts are allowed to leave hell and return to earth for one month. Learn more in this feature by Greg Cruey, About's Guide to Asia for Visitors. (Date: fifteen day of the seventh Chinese lunar month).\n9)
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In the chinese year and religion this is a year of dog.
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St. Patrick's Day is celebrated on March 17, his religious feast day and the anniversary of his death in the fifth century. The Irish have observed this day as a religious holiday for thousands of years. \n\nOn St. Patrick's Day, which falls during the Christian season of Lent, Irish families would traditionally attend church in the morning and celebrate in the afternoon. Lenten prohibitions against the consumption of meat were waived and people would dance, drink, and feast—on the traditional meal of Irish bacon and cabbage.\n\nThe first St. Patrick's Day parade took place not in Ireland, but in the United States. Irish soldiers serving in the English military marched through New York City on March 17, 1762. Along with their music, the parade helped the soldiers to reconnect with their Irish roots, as well as fellow Irishmen serving in the English army. \n\nOver the next thirty-five years, Irish patriotism among American immigrants flourished, prompting the rise of so-called "Irish Aid" societies, like the Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick and the Hibernian Society. Each group would hold annual parades featuring bagpipes (which actually first became popular in the Scottish and British armies) and drums.  Today, St. Patrick's Day is celebrated by people of all backgrounds in the United States, Canada, and Australia. Although North America is home to the largest productions, St. Patrick's Day has been celebrated in other locations far from Ireland, including Japan, Singapore, and Russia. \n\nIn modern-day Ireland, St. Patrick's Day has traditionally been a religious occasion. In fact, up until the 1970s, Irish laws mandated that pubs be closed on March 17. Beginning in 1995, however, the Irish government began a national campaign to use St. Patrick's Day as an opportunity to drive tourism and showcase Ireland to the rest of the world. Last year, close to one million people took part in Ireland 's St. Patrick's Festival in Dublin, a multi-day celebration featuring parades, concerts, outdoor theater productions, and fireworks shows.
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in\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon
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The Islamic calendar or Muslim calendar (also called "Hijri calendar", Arabic التقويم الهجري) is the calendar used to date events in many predominantly Muslim countries, and used by Muslims everywhere to determine the proper day on which to celebrate Islamic holy days. It is a lunar calendar having 12 lunar months in a year of about 354 days. Because this lunar year is about 11 days shorter than the solar year, Islamic holy days, although celebrated on fixed dates in their own calendar, usually shift 11 days earlier each successive solar year, such as a year of the Gregorian calendar. Islamic years are also called Hijra years because the first year was the year during which the Hijra occurred— Muhammad's emigration from Mecca to Medina. Thus each numbered year is designated either H or AH, the latter being the initials of the Latin anno Hegirae (in the year of the Hijra).
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The Chinese have 3 long holidays a year. Spring festival (Chinese New Year), May day holidays and the National Day holidays in October. \n\nBut it is actually not a real one week holiday. Staff are expected to work on the weekend before the holiday and take their holidays in a row during the one week holiday. meaning that you work the weekend, then get the next week free.