New Year

The favorite holiday is celebrated in different countries in different waysThe favorite holiday is celebrated in different countries in different ways, but everywhere it is loved and expected.

The tradition of celebrating the New Year first appeared in Mesopotamia. According to scientists, the first New Year was celebrated in the third millennium AD. The tradition of celebrating the New Year was due to the fact that all agricultural work began at the end of March, after water arrived in the Tigris and Euphrates. For 12 days processions, carnivals, masquerades and was marked by this event. During the holiday, it was forbidden to work and administer the courts.

Gradually, the custom of celebrating the New Year became more and more widespread - the Jews, who were in Babylonian captivity, borrowed this tradition, from them it passed to the Greeks, and from the Greeks to the peoples of Western Europe.

When Julius Caesar introduced the new calendar (now called the Julian calendar), the first day of the New Year was considered the first day of January. The Romans on this day offered sacrifices to the two-faced god Janus and began with him major events, considering the first day of the year auspicious day.