neujahr 2022

Neujahr 2022: New Year is not always January 1st

Bonn New Year's on January 1st is not everywhere in the world. For cultural and religious reasons, the New Year is celebrated at different times around the world. We have put together an overview of the New Year's appointments.

January 1st: Western cultural area

In the Roman Empire, the beginning of the year was moved from March 1st to January 1st by the calendar reform of Julius Caesar 45 BC. Only in 1691 did Pope Innocent XII. also the "Christian" turn of the year definitely takes place on January 1st of the Gregorian calendar. The early Christians celebrated either Epiphany (January 6th) or the feast of the birth of Christ (December 25th) as the beginning of the year. The Catholic Church celebrates the solemn feast of Mary, the Mother of God, on January 1st. In 1967 Pope Paul VI declared. New Year's Day also to World Peace Day.

February 1, 2022: China

The Chinese New Year, Chunjie, is considered the most important holiday in this region of the world. The date is calculated according to the traditional Chinese lunisolar calendar and falls on a new moon between January 21st and February 21st. The year of the tiger starts on February 1, 2022. In the People's Republic of China, New Year celebrates three public holidays, but the traditional number is fifteen and there is typically five to eight days off. The conclusion is celebrated on the 15th day of the New Year with the Lantern Festival. New Year is celebrated with fireworks, dragon and lion dances.

June 24, 2022: South Pacific

The New Year celebrations of the New Zealand Maori and other Polynesian peoples in the South Pacific are called Matariki, which refers to the star cluster of the Pleiades. If the rising of the Pleiades and the neighboring Rigels occurs in the night sky in late May or early June just before sunrise, this means in Maori times that the old year ends and a new one begins. The New Year celebrations that then take place vary in their exact date. From 2022, Matariki will be an official holiday, which this year will be celebrated on June 24th.

July 30, 2022: Islam

The year begins in the Islamic calendar with the month of Muharram, in which Mohammed is said to have fled from Mecca to Medina. That is why the day is very important for Islam. According to the Christian calendar, that was in the year 622, so the 1444th Islamic year begins on July 30, 2022. At the beginning of the year, the Shiites also celebrate their highest festival. In the first ten days of the month of Muharram they celebrate the Ashura rites, in which they commemorate the death of Imam Husain ibn Ali at the battle of Karbala with processions, passion plays and flagellation. The Islamic calendar is a pure lunar calendar and consists of 12 lunar months of 29 or 30 days and is about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar. In 2023, the Islamic New Year starts on July 19.

September 11th: Copts and Ethiopia

The Copts, the largest Christian community in Egypt, celebrate their New Year in late summer. The Coptic year begins with the festival of Nairuz, the first day of the month of Thout. The Coptic calendar goes back to the Egyptian calendar and its origins go back to the 5th millennium BC. BC back. It can thus be regarded as the oldest calendar system still in use in the world.

The new year also begins on September 11th for around 100 million Ethiopians. The East African country has its own calendar. It is based on a variant of the Coptic calendar that is about seven years and eight months behind the Gregorian calendar. According to this, the year 2015 begins in Ethiopia. Traditionally, children give their parents a bouquet of flowers and they get new clothes themselves.

September 26, 2022: Judaism

Jews celebrate the beginning of the year on the first day of the seventh month of the Jewish calendar, Tishri. This always falls in September or in the first half of October. The festival is called Rosh Hashanah in Hebrew, literally "head of the year". It introduces ten days of penance that culminate in Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), the highest Jewish festival. The celebrations last two days. According to the Jewish calendar, the year 5783 begins in 2022 after the creation of the world. Because the date calculation is based on the rhythm of the moon, it is a moving festival: In 2022, the New Year's festivities will begin on the eve of September 26th. Among the most important customs of Rosh Hashanah, in addition to blowing the shofar during a church service, are rich domestic meals with many sweet dishes and the taking of private annual vows.

source allemand 

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