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New Year Cards - Birthday & Party CelebrationsGreeting cards are
nearly as old as the most ancient of human civilizations.
Of all possible circumstances, they were churned out on
a special day. Not Christmas, not Halloween, not even on
a Mother's
day their first known appearance was on a New Year's
day.
If there's any event not to miss exchanging
greeting cards, it is the day of a New Year, this the ancient
Chinese and Egyptians made clear. It makes perfect sense
then that exchanging New Year Cards should carry on to
this day, as much as other Awesome Season's Greetings.
The New Year commonly refers
to the celebration a culture throws commemorating the end
of the previous year and the beginning of the next. The New Year of one is not another culture's
New Year, but the most commonly observed date of celebration
is the first of January. The first of January is apparently the
first day of the year in the Gregorian calendar, which is used
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A reputable variation on the New
Year is its Jewish counterpart, the Rosh Hashanah. Hebrew
for “head
of the year”, Rosh Hashanah is a celebration that
occurs 163 days following Pesach or the Passover, according
to the Hebrew calendar.
Throughout the globe, the Chinese New
Year is known as another popular version of the New Year.
Also recognized as the Lunar New Year or the Spring Festival,
the Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional
Chinese holidays.
The Chinese New Year is celebrated on
the first day of the first month of the Chinese calendar,
otherwise the day of the second new moon after the winter
solstice. As a result, the exact date can fall anytime between
January 21 and February 21 on the Gregorian calendar. One of twelve
animals and one of five elements represent each New Year, cycling
every 60 years. Until 1873, the Japanese New Year is based ever
since ancient times on the same Chinese calendar, before adopting
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The Japanese have a long-standing custom of sending New Years Greeting Cards to their friends and relatives. Called nengajō in local parlance, these Happy New Year Cards are sent early so that they arrive on the first of January.
As a result, the postal traffic at the end of December and the beginning of January is the busiest for the Japanese post office. Technological breakthroughs of late have made plausible the conveyance of Animated New Years Greeting Cards even New Year free Greeting Cards - as New Year Greetings.
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