Is the New Year's Day holiday on January 1 this year? How to celebrate New Year's Day?

Is the New Year's Day holiday on January 1 this year? How to celebrate New Year's Day?
New Year's Day and the Spring Festival are both new years, but New Year's Day is the new year of the lunar calendar, and the Spring Festival is the faith of the lunar calendar. How to take New Year’s Day holiday in 2021? The Lesser Cold in the eleventh month of the lunar calendar has been considered stronger than the Greater Cold since ancient times. If you want to know more about the eleventh month of the lunar calendar in 2021, please follow Mr. Shui Mo.

Is New Year's Day a holiday on January 1st?

Generally speaking, New Year's Day is a holiday on January 1st of the lunar calendar, but New Year's Day in 2022 is on Saturday, so there will be an extra day of holiday before and after the weekend of that week.
In addition, if New Year's Day falls on a weekend, it will be counted together with the weekend and the students will have three consecutive days off. If New Year's Day falls on Tuesday to Thursday, it will be a single day off and no make-up classes will be arranged.

How to celebrate New Year's Day?

On New Year's Eve, Chinese people usually participate in various New Year's Eve activities, such as New Year's Eve parties, New Year's Eve concerts, New Year's Eve fireworks displays, etc., or spend the New Year's Eve with relatives and friends. People in some places will eat rice dumplings or eggs on New Year's Day to bring good luck and fortune to the new year.
New Year's Day is the New Year in most countries of the world, and different countries have different ways of celebrating, such as:
1. United Kingdom
The British usually prepare wine and meat on the day before New Year's Day. The British believe that if there is no leftover wine and meat, there will be poverty in the coming year. In addition, the custom of "drawing well water" in the New Year is popular in the UK. People strive to be the first to draw water, believing that the first person to draw water is a happy person and the water drawn is auspicious water.
2. Germany
During the New Year's Day, every German household will place a fir tree and a horizontal tree, and tie silk flowers between the leaves to represent the blooming flowers and the spring filling the world. They climb onto chairs just before the New Year arrives at midnight on New Year's Eve, and when the bell rings, they jump off the chairs and throw a heavy object behind the chairs to show that they are throwing away the disaster and jumping into the New Year. In addition, in rural Germany there is a New Year custom of "tree climbing competition" to show success.
3. France
The French like to celebrate the New Year with wine. People start partying and drinking from New Year's Eve and don't stop until January 3rd. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day foreshadows the outlook for the new year, so in the early morning they go to the streets to look at the wind direction for divination - if the wind blows from the south, it heralds good weather and a peaceful and hot year; if the wind blows from the west, it means a bumper year for fishing and milking; if the wind blows from the east, there will be a high yield of fruit; and if the wind blows from the north, it means a poor harvest. 4. Switzerland
The Swiss have the habit of doing fitness on New Year's Day. Some of them go hiking in groups, stand on the top of the mountain facing the ice and snow, and sing loudly about the good life; some ski along the long snow trails in the mountains and forests, as if looking for the road to happiness; some hold stilt-walking competitions, with men, women, old and young all taking part, wishing each other good health. They welcome the new year by doing fitness.
5. Greece
On New Year's Day, every Greek family would make a big cake and put a silver coin inside. The host cuts the cake into several pieces and distributes them to family members or visiting relatives and friends. Whoever eats the cake with the silver coin will become the luckiest person in the New Year, and everyone will congratulate him.
6. Belgium
On New Year's morning, the first thing Belgians do in the countryside is to wish their livestock a happy new year. People walked up to the cows, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals, and solemnly told these creatures: "Happy New Year!"
7. Spain
On New Year's Eve, all family members in Spain get together to celebrate with music and games. Midnight arrived, as soon as the clock struck twelve, everyone began to scramble to eat grapes. If you can eat 12 pills according to the sound of the bell, it symbolizes that everything will go well in every month of the new year.

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