New year

China
January 25, 2007 4:58am CST
"Happy new year!"that greeting will be said and heard for at least the frist couple of weeks as a new year gets under way.but the day celebrated as new year's day in the modern world was not always january 1st.it was first celebrated in babylon 4000 years ago,when the first new moon appeared in the sky.it was the beginning of spring,when things start to grow.in 153 BC,the Romans declared january 1st to be the beginning of the new year.after Christianity appeared in Europe,new year celebrations desappeared for a while.they soon reappeared,though,and Western nations have celebrated January 1st as a holiday for about the past 400 years.
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