Healthy Home Newsletter Volume XVIII, Issue 1

January 2020 - Volume XVIII, Issue 1
Happy New Years’ Day Trivia Cool Blogs, Sites
The New Year has not always begun on January 1, and it
doesn’t begin on that date everywhere today. It begins on that date
only for cultures that use a 365-day solar calendar. January 1 became
the beginning of the New Year in 46 B.C., when Julius Caesar
developed a calendar that would more accurately reflect the seasons
than previous calendars had.
The Romans named the first month of the year after Janus, the
god of beginnings and the guardian of doors and entrances. He was
always depicted with two faces, one on the front of his head and one
on the back. Thus, he could look backward and forward at the same
time. At midnight on December 31, the Romans imagined Janus
looking back at the old year and forward to the new. The Romans
began a tradition of exchanging gifts on New Year’s Eve by giving one
another branches from sacred trees for good fortune. Later, nuts or
coins imprinted with the god Janus became more common New Year’s
gifts.
In the Middle Ages, Christians changed New Year’s Day to
December 25, the birth of Jesus. Then they changed it to March 25, a
holiday called the Annunciation. In the sixteenth century, Pope
Gregory XIII revised the Julian calendar, and the celebration of the
New Year was returned to January 1.
The Julian and Gregorian calendars are solar calendars. Some
cultures have lunar calendars, however. A year in a lunar calendar is
less than 365 days because the months are based on the phases of the
moon. The Chinese use a lunar calendar. Their new year begins at the
time of the first full moon (over the Far East) after the sun enters
Aquarius – sometime between January 19 and February 21.
Although the date for New Year’s Day is not the same in every
culture, it is always a time for celebration and for customs to ensure
good luck in the coming year.
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