New Year

New Year

New Year is the time or day at which a new calendar year begins and the calendar’s year count increments by one. Many cultures celebrate the event in some manner and the 1st day of January is often marked as a national holiday. In the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, New Year occurs on January 1. This was also the first day of the year in the original Julian calendar and of the Roman calendar.

Armenian New Year

Since ancient times, on New Year’s Eve, Armenian families lit a fire around which family members gathered. The meaning of this tradition was “giving” all bad memories, mistakes to the fire and receiving heat and light from the fire so that the next year would be brighter and warmer.