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Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival (see also § Names), is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar. Marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring , this festival takes place from Chinese New Year's Eve (the evening preceding the first day of the year) to the Lantern ...
The festivities officially usher in spring, with Holi celebrated as a festival of love. [9] [40] Garga Samhita, a puranic work by Sage Garga was the first work of literature to mention the romantic description of Radha and Krishna playing Holi. [41] There is also a popular symbolic legend behind the festival.
Holi bonfire on Holi eve in Delhi, 2012. Holika Dahan (Sanskrit: होलिका दहन, romanized: Holikā Dahana, lit. 'Burning of Holika'), rendered Holika Dahanam in Sanskrit or Chotti Holi, is a Hindu festival in which a bonfire is lit to celebrate the burning of the demoness, Holika [2] This ritual is symbolic of victory of good over evil. [3]
Setsubun has its origins in tsuina (), a Chinese custom introduced to Japan in the 8th century. [2] It was quite different from the Setsubun known today. According to the Japanese history book Shoku Nihongi, tsuina was first held in Japan in 706, and it was an event to ward off evil spirits held at the court on the last day of the year according to the lunar-solar calendar.
A sample generic Mărțișor. Mărțișor (Romanian pronunciation: [mərt͡siˈʃor]) is a tradition celebrated at the beginning of Spring in March, involving an object made from two intertwined red and white strings with hanging tassel in Romania and Moldova, [1] very similar to Martenitsa tradition in Bulgaria and Martinka in North Macedonia and traditions of other populations from ...
Regarding this veneration, Carole M. Cusack comments that, among adherents, Ēostre is "associated with the coming of spring and the dawn, and her festival is celebrated at the spring equinox. Because she brings renewal, rebirth from the death of winter, some Heathens associate Ēostre with Iðunn , keeper of the apples of youth in Scandinavian ...
The arrival of spring has been celebrated in Asia Minor since neolithic times.The root of this story goes back to ancient Iranian legends, retold in General History by scientist Dinawari, [15] The Meadows of Gold by Muslim historian Masudi, [16] the Shahnameh, a poetic opus written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi around 1000 AD, and the Sharafnameh by the medieval Kurdish historian Sherefxan Bidlisi.
Baba Marta (Bulgarian: Баба Марта, "Granny March") is the name of a Bulgarian mythical figure who brings with her the end of the cold winter and the beginning of the spring. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her holiday of the same name is celebrated in Bulgaria on 1 March with the exchange and wearing of martenitsi .