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RE: Holidays of Russia. New Year.
That is a very interesting holiday celebration. The way you described New Year celebration is like how I knew Christmas to be celebrated.
With the bad story behind Father Frost, I wonder what made the occasion a celebration instead of something to be feared of. Any idea about that?
By the way, I came across your article through @mmunited who featured it in his post as an entry for the Pay It Forward Curation Contest. The contest is open to everyone so you are welcome to join.
Thank you very much @macoolette, but I probably missed it again with the competition :)
What as for why the holiday was fun? Forget all the bad things ))))
And this tradition was very ancient, when Russia was still a pagan. Over time, the people began to better protect themselves from the severe winter frosts and store food well for the long winter. And in the seasons change began to celebrate New year and the holiday slowly began to transform into the one which we know it today.
By the way, now in Russia the new year is celebrated from 4 holiday!!!! A little-Catholic Christmas (December 25), then the same new year (December 31), then Orthodox Christmas (January 7) and... old New year (January 14th) is according to the old calendar. ))))
I am not sure which competition you are referring to but I am sure there will be next time. Keep going... 😊
Whoah! This is my very first time to hear four celebrations of new year! 😃 But you specified different names of celebrations for those four dates so I guess Russia has just generalized all the four to be "new year", is it?
Here in the Philippines, we have that Christmas for December 25, New Year for January 1, Epiphany or Three Kings on January 6 (but the church would celebrate this on whichever date is the first Sunday of the year). The next new year celebration is sometime in February for Chinese New Year following their own Chinese calendar. Though that is for Chinese, we have many Filipino-Chinese here in the country that their Chinese tradition (at least for their new year) is recognized. The date is not fixed. I don't know why or how their calendar goes. 😊
Chinese new year some of us also celebrate :) Russians have a very generous soul and everything is done from the heart! Here is the New Year celebration too - from the heart :)))) And So is celebrated (some even without a break from 25 December to 14 January ))))
But seriously, it is because of the calendar. In tsarist (old) Russia, all events relating to the period before February 1 , 1918 , date from the Julian calendar ("old" style), from February 1, 1918 - Gregorian ("new" style). So both holiday - Christmas and New year are celebrated two times )))) The difference - 14 days.
But Christmas are Catholic and Orthodox, and new year are the new and the old!
The Old New Year !!! It's Russia!!! )))
I thought it is only in the Philippines where people still believe in old traditions or beliefs At least that does not make us alone. 😃