Handful days more to go and we will enter in year 2016 with new resolutions and to fulfil all new dreams. The best part of New Year celebration is every country and every religion celebrates it with true spirit. Let's explore more about story behind New Year celebration, New Year food traditions around the world along some great ideas on how to make New Year 2016 invitations and decorations.
Exploring the history of New Year celebration
The New Year hasn't always started on January 1st, and it really does not commence on such a day everywhere today. It starts on this day because western culture follows the 365day solar calendar.
The Romans named the very first month of the full year after Janus, the god of all good beginnings as well as the defender of doorways and entrances. He was usually depicted with two faces, one on the front of his head and one on the back. Therefore he could look backward and forward at once.
The Romans started a tradition of trading presents on New Year's Eve by offering each other branches from sacred trees for good luck.
Within the Middle-ages, Christians altered New Year's Day-to December 25, the birth of Christ. They altered it to March 25, a holiday known as the Annunciation. Again during the 16th century, Pope Gregory XIII revised the Julian calendar, and the celebration of the New Year was returned to January 1st.
Some cultures have lunar calendars, nevertheless. Annually in a lunar calendar is less-than 365-days since the months are derived from the phases of the moon. A lunar calendar is used by the Chinese. Even though the date for New Year's Day isn't the same in every culture, it is usually an occasion for celebration and for customs to make certain good fortune in the forthcoming year.
Happy New Year 2015 - cuisine traditions all over the world
Food in Japan: The New Year party continues for 3 days in Japan. People prepare great food as well as pay a visit to the temples to offer food to their God, in the day of the New Year. The New Year meals within the nation is soba noodles. It'll ensure you a healthy and long life, if you're able enough to savour the soba noodles without breaking them. Other popular traditional New Year foods in Japan are big omochi, Omochi cakes and mochi Ozon, rice.
Food in Italy: Cotechino sausage is well-known New Year traditional cuisines in Italy. Lentils are utilized in the preparation of the conventional cuisines, which symbolizes abundance.
Food in USA: The original New Year Food in USA is corn bread, collard greens, ham and black-eyed peas. Black-eyed peas and Collard greens is thought to bring good luck as they look like wishing coins.
Champagne: Champagne is becoming the drink in New Year Eve in almost every part of the world. People drink Champagne to the New Year's Eve as it's considered to provide charm and joy for them.
Celebrate Happy New Year 2015 with following ideas:
Happy New Year 2015 invitation ideas
- Roll-up computer-generated, parchment invitations, in little bottles of wine to be hand-delivered
- Unroll noisemakers, and create your invitations. They may be sent in little envelopes or sent by hand.
- Place some confetti within the envelope along the invitation.
- Draw, or print a clock image, with fingers pointing to midnight, onto card-stock, with all of your party advice on the back.
Decorations
- Distribute glitter, confetti, and curlicues on tables.
- Using a balloon drop kit, fill the room with colourful balloons, and hang them in the ceiling. At midnight, pull the twine, and have your own balloon drop.
- Candles or dim lights will increase the festive feeling.
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