New Year's story

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New Year is the time or day on which a new calendar year begins and the number of years in the calendar increases by one. Many cultures celebrate this event in one way or another. According to the Gregorian calendar, the most widely used calendar system today, the New Year falls on January 1st.

Since ancient times, the New Year has been celebrated as a universal one, and with the strengthening of state power, as a public holiday. At the same time, the New Year has always been perceived as a family holiday, as a holiday that connects each person with his relatives, with living and deceased ancestors. In the celebration of the New Year there were, and still exist to this day, several levels: state and national, public and family. The main attributes of any year are the alternation of day and night, their return again to their original positions. That is, we are talking about the winter and summer solstices, the spring and autumn equinoxes. These moments of the year were celebrated by ancient peoples as a kind of beginning. The movements of the Sun and Moon are the most prominent, regularly recurring natural phenomena useful for keeping time, and were the most commonly used units of time in ancient societies around the world.

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