Leap Year Traditions

Although different countries in the world have different festivals and holidays, there is a momentous event that annually they all eagerly long for. It is the New Year festival which marks the pivotal point of a new period of time with the pure and pristine beginning for individuals. However, each nation has its own traditions, customs and values partly reflected in the celebration of the New Year festival. The ways of holding the festival in Viet Nam and in America are of no exception. The two countries belonging to two geographical locations and cultures share some certain similarities but mostly they show many obvious distinctions in the New Year celebration.

Coming of age birthdays exist throughout many cultures and have evolved in different ways depending on the region or religion they came from. Besides the traditional American “sweet 16”, there are other very popular traditions that are diversified by culture, religion, and by the day it takes place. Americans celebrate many of these different cultural birthdays because anyone who lives in the US has the right to practice any religion they see fit. Most birthdays have very similar features such as giving gifts to the man and, or woman of honor. There are also many differences in these traditions, some of which are considerably more family-based than others, such as the “Quinceanera”.

The moon or the stars do not play a role in this calendar. Since the March equinox (mean astronomical northward equinoctial year) is slowly drifting towards earlier dates in March while the Earth’s revolutions and rotations, especially the precession of the equinoxes, are slowly changing the tilt of Earth’s axis, the rate of the equinox drift will increase in the years to come. In order to address this problem, and align the Sun and the Earth’s orbits, the Symmetry454 calendar has a simple 293-year cycle with 52 leap weeks, resulting in the proper alignment for the next 4000 years in respect to the March equinox, the Sun, and the Earth. This symmetrical leap rule of the 293-year leap cycle results in long-term symmetry to the calendar, allowing the precise timing of the Northward equinox to consistently fall in the first year of every 293-year cycle. Within each repeating leap cycle, the same set of years are the “leap year” years. Having 52 weeks in a regular year allows for this calendar to be perpetual, meaning it starts on the same weekday every year, as well as preserving the traditional 7-day week cycle. The way that this is accomplished by this calendar is to include a leap week at the end of every 5th or 6th year, during the month of December. This leap week insures that day and week number will stay constant within the years. This leap also ensures that the Orbit of the sun and Earth stay relatively fixed and synchronized with the seasons over many centuries. The Epoch of this calendar is the same date as that of the Gregorian calendar, falling on Monday, January 1 of the year 1 AD. Lastly, because no Friday will fall on the 13th of a month in the whole year, there’s no more bad luck for

There is one saying: “No dumplings, no Spring Festival”(wudaokou). Dumplings symbolize happiness and celebration,bring the whole family together ,become an indispensable food and an important activity for most families to celebrate Chinese New Year.

in February every 4 years, corrects the problem for the Solar calendar and by inserting a 13th month every 3 years solves the problem for the Lunar calendar.

Many people celebrate various traditions all over the world on holidays, birthdays etc. those traditions can define a race, culture, and nations but there are specific ones that represent your family. My family is set apart by carrying the spirit of Christmas by traveling to New York. We go to see many sights such as the Rockefeller Christmas Tree that marks that Christmas has officially begun. With Red Cross employees in the background with Christmas music ringing bells in hopes of people donating money to aid others in need. As well as going to see the most iconic play of the holiday season and on Broadway being the Nutcracker.

The Lunar New Year always landed on a school day for my siblings and I. Therefore, right after school, my siblings

Everyone have to have the same birthdays in December. It is called the Ceremony. They don't celebrate individual differences. For example, ¨ the ceremony is what I am so apprehensive about¨ (Lowry 12). On the other hand, modern day society let everyone be different from each other.

The day goes normally, like any other. There are 3 meals, and the same movies. That night, I make a wish, for my 16th birthday to one day to be set

Each year in this calendar is related to a certain animal like a snake, ram, bull and even a rabbit, “it has 12 months in each year and an “intercalary” month every two to three years ("Introduction to Calendars")”. The Chinese calendar is such an old calendar with the New Year being on February 10 back in 2013, and it will be the 4711th year in the Chinese calendar. The Chinese New Year is between January 21 to February 21, depending on when the new moon of the first lunar month is. The Chinese New Year celebration is a 15-day long celebration which is also known as the ‘Spring Festival’, it is the most known or significant of all the Chinese

Every four years an extra day is added to the Gregorian calendar. This day is added to February. This gives February 29 days. Therefore every 4th February 29th is known as Leap Day. The additional 24 hours are built into the calendar to make sure that the days stay in line with the Earth’s movement around the Sun. While the modern calendar contains 365 days, the actual time it takes for Earth to orbit its star is slightly longer—roughly 365.2421 days. The difference might seem negligible, but over decades and centuries that missing quarter of a day per year can add up. During leap years, a leap day is added to the calendar to slow down and synchronize the calendar year with the seasons. If we went without a correction the calendar year would

For this paper I watched the romantic comedy called Leap Year. In this movie Anna (Amy

Today I will be telling you what the animals mean to the people, what to do to prepare for the new year, and what you do on the days of the new year.

This event began when physicist Larry Shaw celebrated the first Pi Day on March 14th, 1998, chosen for the date’s (3/14) resemblance to 3.14, at his workplace, the San Francisco Exploratorium, which carries on the tradition to this day (“Mathematical Holidays”). Since then, the holiday moved into American school classrooms in order to promote the importance of this number in modern day

When I was around eight years old, my mother came up with an idea to make my tenth birthday even more special than just the recognition of entering through the gate of double-digit numbers.