Leap Year Traditions

Hooray! Went the family in a joyful sound for Christmas was near. Everyone loves holidays in some way, spending time with family and receiving gifts show two ways of the greatness in holidays. The French holidays connect to many of the United States holidays when referring to April Fools Day, Mother’s Day, Christmas Day, and Bastille Day.

Ever wonder what it would be like to use the same calendar year after year nonstop? How great would it be to continuously have the same dates for every holiday year by year? The Symnnetry454 Calendar that’s being planned to replace the Gregorian calendar can establish all that! Soon, Friday the 13th won’t be a day of bad luck for anyone very again.

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”.

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.

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.

First, Chinese Americans preserve their ethnic identities through holidays. One of the biggest holidays is the Chinese New Year. The Chinese New Year is different from the regular New Years in that it relies on the moon cycles instead of the western calendar, so it falls on different days each year. There is a lot of preparation that goes into the Chinese New Year. People start cleaning their houses and decorating them with spring couplets on the twentieth day of the twelfth moon. Spring couplets are short poems written on red scrolls of paper in black. A popular New Years tradition in the United States is the exchanging of red envelopes containing money, which are called hong-bao. Most families spend this holiday celebrating together because this holiday, above others, emphasizes family and family ties.

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

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

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

For the past couple of weeks, I have been researching the Chinese New Year and I am here today to share what I have found.

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

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

According a popular myth, the origin of this day lies in the fight against Nian, a beast in Chinese mythology. The beast would visit cities and eat cattle, crops, and even people. In order for families to protect themselves from the beast, they would place food at their doorsteps so that the beast would not harm them. One day during a family dinner, the family noticed how the beast was startled by seeing the color red. Word of this spread to other friends and family. Soon, from then on, on the first day of every New Year, people would hang red paper lanterns and other red objects to scare off the beast. They would also light bamboo stalks in order to scare the beast away. After some time, the beast stop coming to the city all together. However, by this time relatives and family had already adopted the habit of getting together to protect each other from the beast.

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.