Fifteen days after the Chinese New Year, Chap Goh May is a day celebrated as marking the end of Chinese New Year celebrations.
Chap Goh May festival is celebrated by holding a prayer ceremony on a large scale, where large to burn joss sticks and also held a large meal with family. Burned and fireworks lit lanterns to celebrate Chap Goh May
Chap Goh May also be considered as a night looking for couples in which the girls will be dressed in a beautiful and well visited temples to pray for a couple butabara.
There is also the practice of throwing oranges into the sea, praying for a mate. The fresh citrus fruit to bring order to their getting the right partner.
Chinese cultural performances will be held at night to mark the celebration of Chap Goh May as the procession of lanterns, a dragon or lion dance, Chinese opera, and offset a big flag "Chingay".
Maulid al-Nabi (Arabic مولد آلنبي) in Islam-birthday celebration of Prophet Muhammad. Spend 12 of the third month of the lunar (Islamic) calendar Rabi al-Aahualii.
In some Muslim countries have been quite magnificent and the entire month: urban hang posters with verses from the Holy Koran in mosques, people gather and sing religious songs (Nasheeds), made speeches theologians.
Since the exact date of his birth is unknown, Maulid timed to the day of his death.
Also sometimes called Miladun assembly of Muslims, which are going to do the same thing as a holiday Maulid, but such meetings are not held in conjunction with a specific date. In some nations, traditionally Muslim, Maulid also called and the meeting on the occasion of the wedding, birth, etc.
For permission from the standpoint of the Islamic Shariah, the practice of so-called Miladun not confined to the expected date of birth of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) among Islamic scholars and streams have no disagreements, provided if they complied with Shariah.
As for the permissibility of a holiday in honor of the birthday of Prophet Muhammad, called "Maulid" or "Maulid al-Nabi," then this issue among Islamic theologians, there is considerable disagreement (see "Theology and Maulid).
The history of the holiday
First Mawlid started celebrating at the direction of Muzaffar al-Din Ibn Zain al-Din, the ruler of the Syrian Irbil area in the XII century of the Gregorian era. For the first Mawlid he gathered prominent scholars and Sufis, a good knowledge of Hadith.
Traditions of the holiday
Currently Maulid al-Nabi is widely celebrated in Syria, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco and other Muslim countries. In Pakistan, he is an official holiday, celebrated for three days off.
Maulid consists of prayers and words of remembrance of Allah, praise, prophet, poetic narratives, and lectures about his life and birth. At Maulid usually expressed joy at the arrival in this world of Mohammed, which Muslims believe the last messenger of God, and to pray for it thanks to Almighty God, to pray to God with prayers, give alms to the poor and pious talk to each other.
In Egypt and some other Arab countries this holiday is especially loved by children. Everywhere there are decorated with flags pavilions, which sells a variety of largest sugar figurines "arusat Al-Nabi" - "the bride of the Prophet" - with a colorful paper fan behind him. Another popular sweet figurine - the rider with a sword in his hand.
Theology and Mawlid
In the life of the Prophet Muhammad and the first few centuries after his death, his birthday did not observed. However, later this tradition rooted in the Muslim society, through its introduction of the Syrian ruler of Irbil area in the XII century of the Gregorian chronology.
The very fact that this holiday is a late innovation in Islam is the main argument of opponents of his celebration of.
Supporters of the holiday
Supporters celebrate Miladun rely on two well-known views. The first of them - the celebration of Maulid love of the Prophet Muhammad, coming from the set of his hadith, one of which is shown below.
"I swear by those in whose palms of my soul I'm not sure any of you until it is to love me more than the love of his father and his children. "
Main arguments of supporters celebrate Maulid
1. Show love to the prophet Muhammad, and thus enjoy his birth, tells Muslims to Allah .
2. The Messenger of Allah appreciated his birth (in particular, he fasted on Mondays, because he was born on Monday), thanked the Almighty Allah for what He created it and gave it life, praising Him for a blessing.
3. Prophet Muhammad rewarded poets in praise of him in his works, approve it.
4. Mawlid - a collection of Muslims to express joy for the birth of the Prophet and love for him. In the hadith says that everyone will be next to someone he loves.
5. Singing Mawlid (poetic narratives of the birth of the Prophet, about his life and prophetic mission) facilitates the acquisition of knowledge about the Prophet, and the one who has such knowledge, reminds us of this again, and it causes emotions that contribute to increasing the love of the Prophet.
6. In Islam, Muslims appreciated the meeting for the joint ibadata (worship), the study of religion, almsgiving (Sadaka.
7. Not all, what did the Messenger of Allah, is forbidden and undesirable. For example, when his life was not collected in one book, the Koran, were not collected in the books of Hadith were not formed by some Islamic science was not Islamic books, educational institutions, there was no Islamic preaching on radio and television, etc. But Still, according to Islam is not only not forbidden, but also desirable and highly esteemed.
8. Such eminent Islamic scholars like Imam Hafiz ibn Hajar and Imam Suyuti Askalyani, talked about the permissibility of Mawlid.
The Saturnalia is a cycle of festivals of Roman religion, dedicated to setting the temple of the god Saturn and the mythical golden age, took place December 17 to 23 (during the Empire period fixed by Domitian).
The Saturnalia had started with great banquets, sacrifices, in a crescendo that could also take sometimes orgiastic character; participants share the hope I used Saturnalia, accompanied by small symbolic gifts, those gifts.
During these celebrations had subverted the social order: the slaves of free men could be considered temporary, and how they could behave, was elected by drawing lots, a princeps-a sort of caricature of the noble class, which was assigned to each power .
In reality, the religious connotation of the party took priority over the social and "class". The "princeps" was usually dressed in a funny mask and gaudy colors among which the red (color of the gods). He was the personification of an underworld deity to be identified from time to time with Saturn or Pluto, in charge of guarding the souls of the dead, but also protecting the countryside and crops.
In Roman times it was believed that these deities, exits from the depths of the soil, wander in procession for the entire winter period, ie when the land lay fallow and was due to weather conditions.
They had to be placated with the offer of gifts and feasts in their honor and induced to return to the afterlife, where they helped the crops of the summer season.
Therefore, this is a kind of long parade of carnival "(because this festival can be traced back to Saturnalia and all subsequent agrarian rites).
The greek equivalent of the Roman god Saturn was Cronus. There was a variation on the myth of the god Saturn who saw a mythical Golden Age. Expelled by Jupiter said to have moved his kingdom in a place that the first Greeks and Romans later called "Blessed Islands".
Veterans Day is the day the United States for their tribute to everyone who has served in the armed forces. This feast takes place each year on November 11, the days of the end of the First World War.
Veterans Day is largely intended to living veterans thanks for services rendered, to show their commitment by the United States is valued and to emphasize that not only deceased soldiers, but also living things have had to sacrifice and have done their duty.
History
Woodrow Wilson argued in 1919 Armistice Day in at the end of World War I to recall and 30 states made it a legal holiday. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 inviting all Americans had come to watch and made it a national holiday in 1938, each year on November 11 would be held.
Decided in 1953 Emporia, Kansas, during a commemoration of Armistice Day that year. Member of Congress for Emporia, Ed Rees, tried repeatedly law by the House of Representatives to get the name of Veterans Day should change. Eventually changed its name on June 1, 1954 to Veterans Day.
When all holidays except New Year's Day, Christmas, Thanksgiving and Independence Day were moved to Monday to ensure an extra long weekend, was moved Veterans Day to the fourth Monday of October. After protests by veterans groups, the feast day back moved to November 11, primarily to the day more attractive.
The opposite was true. Only banks and government agencies in most states still closed on that day. Schools and businesses tend to stay open, resulting in lack of adequate public transport timetables carries.
Friend Day was adopted in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Decree No. 235/79, and was gradually adopted in other parts of the world.
The date was established by the Argentine Ernesto Enrique Febbraro. He was inspired by the arrival of man to the moon on July 20, 1969, considering the conquest a victory not only scientific but also an opportunity to make friends in other parts of the universe.
Thus, for a year, the Argentine released the slogan "My friend is my teacher, my companion is my disciple."
Gradually the date was being adopted in other countries and today, almost everyone, on July 20 is the Friend's Day is when people exchange gifts, embrace and declare their friendship with each other, in theory.
In Brazil, the day of the friend is celebrated in an unofficial manner on July 20.
Friendship Day
The Friendship Day is celebrated in Brazil on July 20. Some say that on July 20 is the Friend's Day. Actually Friend Day is celebrated on April 18 in Brazil.
