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New Years: Gregorian Calendar
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The Gujarati New Year is usually celebrated the day after the festival of Diwali (which occurs in mid-fall - either October or November, depending on the Lunar calendar). The Gujarati New Year is synonymous with sud ekam of the Kartik month - the first day of the first month of Gujarati lunar calendar. Most other Hindus celebrate the New Year in early spring, but the Gujarati farming community celebrates the New Year after Diwali to mark the beginning of a new fiscal year.
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These books will help you learn more about Chinese New Year. It is the most important festival in China... called the Spring Festival. The date of the new year is determined by the lunar/solar calendar, so the date of the holiday varies from late January to mid February.
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[I]t should ... be mentioned that there is nothing auspicious about the time taken as the beginning of the New Year even though it is calculated by the astrologers. While some calendars has an epoch that always falls on midnight, the epoch of the Sinhalese calendar is closely associated with the motion of the sun, relative to the earth. Of course the celebration of the Sinhalese New Year involves a range of auspicious times (such as the time for partaking of the first meal in the New Year, setting out for work, etc.), but the time of the dawn of the New Year is not among them.
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