{"id":154,"date":"2015-01-01T13:48:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/?p=154"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:40:08","slug":"the-new-year-in-various-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/en\/the-new-year-in-various-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"The new year in various cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

Based on Wikipedia in spanish (http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A\u00f1o_Nuevo<\/a>), I share here this interesting list of New Year celebration in various cultures.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>– The ethiopians celebrate Enkutatash on September 11.
\n– We Tripantu, The Mapuche new year on 24 June.
\n– The Aymara New Year is celebrated every June 21.
\n– The Inti Raymi, Inca new year is every winter solstice, celbrated on 24 June.
\n– In the diacordan calendar (Canada), the new year is celebrated on 47 of the month Vetriota, in the Gregorian calendar would be the July 8.
\n– The Mexica celebrate Yancuic Xihuitl on March 11.
\n– Jews celebrate Rosh Hashanah in September.
\n– The Muslim New Year is celebrated on 1 Muharram, without permanent assignment in the Gregorian calendar because the Muslim calendar is lunar.
\n– Losar, the Tibetan New Year celebration, takes place between January and early February.
\n– In Thailand, Cambodia, Burma and Bengal, the new year is celebrated on April 14.
\n– Tet, the Vietnamese New Year is celebrated by the Chinese New Year.
\n– The Chinese New Year is lunar. It is celebrated on the second new moon after the winter solstice boreal.
\n– The Hindu New Year is celebrated two days before Diwali festival in mid-November.
\n– Ugadi, Telugu New Year celebration is between March and April.
\n– Nouruz, celebration of the Iranian New Year takes place in the spring equinox (March 21, approximately).
\n– Naw-Ruz, the celebration of the Baha’i Faith, is performed at the srping equinox.
\n– The Guanches of Tenerife celebrate Be\u00f1esmer with the collection of crops (around August 15).
\n– The AMORC Rosicrucian celebrate the new year between March 21 and March 23, as close to the spring equinox.
\n– 1 Vend\u00e9miaire, celebrating New Year according to the French Republican Calendar, equivalent to 22 September.
\n– Samhain, New year’s celebration of Celtic neopaganism, is near to November 1.
\n– In the Catholic and Orthodox Churches celebrate New Year on January 1 by the Gregorian calendar.
\n– Some members of the Orthodox Church that kept the Julian calendar, celebrate the New Year on January 14.
\n– The Catholic-Vetero Church celebrate it on February 4, according to the gali-Catholic calendar.
\n– All Protestant churches celebrate it on January 1 by the Gregorian calendar, other Protestant movements Baptists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Lutherans and Quakers not celebrate it.
\n– The Hebrew calendar starts in the month of Tishrei; because it is a lunar calendar, not the Gregorian calendar date corresponds.
\n– Muslims celebrate the new year on 1 Muharram, date not coincide with the Gregorian calendar, because is lunar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on Wikipedia in spanish (http:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/A\u00f1o_Nuevo), I share here this interesting list of New Year celebration in various cultures. – The ethiopians celebrate Enkutatash on September 11. – We Tripantu, The Mapuche new year on 24 June. – The Aymara New Year is celebrated every June 21. – The Inti Raymi, Inca new year is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aprendamos.org\/fermin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}