Happy X’mas~~~

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Unconsciously my little blog has run one year now. The first domain name of my blog is holysheep.cn which I registered at domestic domain site. I set it up at June or July 2008, and caused from a terrible database crash of the first domestic virtual host server, I lost the first month’s writing totally. With the help of my respected friend mg12‘s help, I rent a new virtual host server and back to blog writing and the next month.

From then on, I keep writing every months. It seems a tough job for me to use a second language as my blog site language. But thanks for the friends who always support me, I didn’t give up and became more and more enjoyable.

This year is a new start of my blog. I manage to repaint it from top to toe. My work includes buy new international domain name, solesky.com, rent a new oversea virtual host server, customize new theme, and learn more about the word press, php, and css design…

So I want to give a new birth of this little blog and maybe today is also good to be its birthday too

Calcifer@ www.solesky.com

29th July 2009

Then let’s share a little story about the new year’s day.

New Year’s Day is the first day of the new year. On the modern Gregorian calendar, it is celebrated on January 1, as it was also in ancient Rome (though other dates were also used in Rome). In all countries using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, except for Israel, it is a public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts. January 1 on the Julian calendar corresponds to January 14 on the Gregorian calendar, and it is on that date that followers of some of the Eastern Orthodox churches celebrate the New Year.

Originally observed on March 15 in the old Roman Calendar, New Year’s Day first came to be fixed in January 1, 153 BC, when the two Roman consuls, after whom – in the Roman calendar – years were named and numbered, began to be chosen on that date, for military reasons. However, dates in March, coinciding with the first day of spring, or commemorating the Annunciation of Jesus, along with a variety of Christian feast dates were used throughout the Middle Ages, though calendars often continued to display the months in columns running from January to December in the Roman fashion.

Among the 7th-century pagans of Flanders and the Netherlands it was the custom to exchange gifts at the New Year, a pagan custom deplored by Saint Eligius (died 659 or 660), who warned the Flemings and Dutchmen, “[Do not] make vetulas, [little figures of the Old Woman], little deer or iotticos or set tables [for the house-elf, compare Puck] at night or exchange New Year gifts or supply superfluous drinks [another Yule custom].” The quote is from the vita of Eligius written by his companion Oueen..

Most countries in Western Europe officially adopted January 1 as New Year’s Day somewhat before they adopted the Gregorian calendar. The Feast of the Annunciation, March 25 (9 months before December 25), was the first day of the new year in England until the adoption of the Gregorian Calendar in 1752. The March 25th date was called Annunciation Style; the January 1 date was called Circumcision Style, because this was the date of the Feast of the Circumcision, being the eighth day counting from December 25.

And I don’t know whether I can update my blog. So wish everyone have a nice Mid Autumn Day ahead of time.

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