| About New Year's Day |
| New Year's Day is celebrated on January 1st of every year. It is a public holiday. The celebration of this holiday begins the night before on New Year’s Eve. All countries use the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, expect for Israel. On this day Chinese are wearing red color clothes and decorated with poems on red paper and everything associated with red. Red is the symbolizing fire and a source to drive away bad luck is part and parcel of the New Year in China. It is a time of renewal and many people resolve to break bad habits and begin good habits. Some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year. The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. This day many people gather to wish each other a happy and prosperous coming year. Usually Chinese New Year is starts with the New Moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. New Year Day is the most universal holiday. On this day they are participates in dragon dancing, lion dancing and folk dances and other activities in China. |
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