why is new year celebrated?

Question

i need specific answer.In India,different people celebrate in different days and different months.Example:malus celebrate in april,tamils also in april,kanadigas in jan etc,.Then why all should celebrate on first jan.which country started this celebration

Answer 1

We celebrate the New Year because it brings hope, newness of life, and gives us a chance to reflect on what was in our past.

With the New Year comes a "second chance" at life.

I'm on my 43 chance. I hope I get it right, this year...

;-)

Answer 2

Well...I don't think there was a particular reason to celebrate a new year on 1st January itself. As you correctly pointed out that in our India there are several states celebrating different date as new year. But to make the confusion on lesser points, may be 1st january came into fashion as the world-wide acceptance for the commencement of new year. It is more so because we begin the new year with new hopes, new challenge, new adventures....and above all....a new beginning. It really doesn't matter to which religion we belong to....as long as we have something to cherish on 1st January.

Answer 3

The Romans as well as the Persians celebrated the New Year in Spring. The Roman year began in March. Their October, November and December were the eighth, ninth and tenth months of the year, as the names indicate.

The Romans began their new year in March, named for Mars. If the harvests were bad or the rodents voracious, one tended to run out of grain in March. By then most of the snow had melted, and after a prayer to Mars, they would march off and steal the grain of some more fortunate tribe.

The Roman Catholic Church was not fond of such customs and quite unfond of Mars as well: there was that incident with those gambling Roman soldiers, after all.

And so it came to pass that the Roman Catholic Church that decided to begin the New Year right after Christmas, for symbolic reasons. The gloom of December followed by the hope inspired by the Birth of the Savior, yada yada yada.

No more warlike Mars: we would thenceforth begin the year with the peace of Jesus.

Answer 4

i guess u got it all mixed up ...........u see the tamilians and keralites celebrate in April ...they don't celebrate new year they celebrate because on those days their state was founded........new year is totally different stuff .........it's fresh start for everyone .........new aspirations.....new resolutions ....new things to expect ........and it's the beginning of another year ....the whole world except Muslims celebrate new year .....Muslims follow the Arabic / Islamic calender... it was founded by people all around the world ....it eventually grew into a big celebration.

Answer 5

Its the celebration about us getting older each year. We humans need to have something to celebrate so why not New Year?

Answer 6

Because nobody else celebrate the Previous Year.

Answer 7

New year is celebrated for many reasons but most importantly for welcoming the new year and bidding good bye to the year gone no matter whether it was good or bad.

Answer 8

i don't know i am just in for the food and the goodies, anyway different religion and country celebrate in different ways in different dates who originate it doesn't matter as long as your in the spirit of it and the celebration

Answer 9

Like u say different sects of people follow different calendars.......yet English is considered to b the universal language + it is also the official calendar .....

Answer 10

Its the beginning of a new year, a fresh start. Another year to do something with your life.