Celebrate New Year with Ferns N Petals

Celebrate New Year with Ferns N Petals

New Year is round the corner and all of you would be wondering on how you can welcome the Coming year and make it happier and blissful. Many of us would make new resolutions and purchase New Year gift for our loved ones. People of all caste, creeds, religions celebrate New Year in a grand manner.

In the coming year 2011, send New Year Flowers and Gifts to your friends and relatives to make them happy and start the year with a smile on their faces. There is a beautiful aura set on 1st January 2011, the first day of the coming year. On the night of 31st Dec. 2010, balloons will be released in the air, screaming sounds and hooting can be heard and firecracker will be burst. You can also make this occasion special by sending 2011 New Year flowers and gifts through Ferns N Petals anywhere in India and 153 Countries.

Origins of Christmas tree

Origins of Christmas tree

Christmas trees or evergreen trees, which found its origins in Germany, symbolized life, good luck and fertility and were used to worship Yule God. Initially, oak trees were used for outdoors but later people in Germany took them inside their houses and started decorating them.

Christmas trees eventually became popular in Europe too. In England, the first Christmas tree, decorated with candles, fruits and gingerbread, was sighted at Windsor castle in 1841. In US too, Christmas tree became popular only in 1800s.

Initially, Christmas trees were decorated with fruits, candles, cookies and nuts. But now they are decorated with attractive Christmas lights and colorful Christmas ornaments.

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The Story behind Twelve Days of Christmas

The Story behind Twelve Days of Christmas

Below is an explanation from 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were
not permitted to practice their faith openly. Someone during that era wrote
this carol as a catechism song for young Catholics. It has two levels of
meaning: the surface meaning plus a hidden meaning known only to members of
their church. Each element in the carol has a code word for a religious reality
which the children could remember.

The partridge in a pear tree
was Jesus Christ

The Two Turtle Doves
were the Old and New Testaments

The Three French Hens
stood for faith, hope and love

The Four Calling Birds
were the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John

The Five Golden Rings
recalled the Torah or Law, the first five books of the Old Testament

The Six Geese-a-Laying
stood of the six days of creation

The Seven Swans a-Swimming
represented the sevenfold gifts of the Holy SpiritProphesy, Serving, Teaching,
Exhortation, Contribution, Leadership and Mercy

The Eight Maids a-Milking
were the eight beatitudes

The Nine Ladies Dancing
were the nine fruits of the Holy SpiritLove, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness,
Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-control

The Ten Lords a-Leaping
were the ten commandments

The Eleven Pipers Piping
stood for the eleven faithful disciples

The Twelve Drummers Drumming
symbolized for the twelve points of belief in the Apostles Creed

AL-HIJRA (MUHARRAM) ISLAMIC NEW YEAR 2010

December 7, 2010; Al-Hijra is the Islamic New Year, celebrated on the first day of the month of Muharram, the month in which Muhammad emigrated from Mecca to Medina. The holiday is also called simply Muharram.
New Year's Day is used to remind Muslims of the Hiraj or migration, of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina. The Islamic year consists of twelve lunar months as Muharram; Safar; Rabi'ul Awwal; Rabi'uth Thani; Jumada al-Awwal; Jumada ath-Thani; Rajab; Sha'ban; Ramadhan; Shawwal; Thul Qi'dah; and Thul Hijjah.
Since the Islamic year is 11 to 12 days shorter than the Gregorian year, the Islamic New Year does not come on the same day of the Gregorian calendar every year.
The way the Muslims celebrate New Year's Day is very different from other such celebrations. They gather in mosques and offer special prayers and listen to special readings from the Koran. An important part of the prayer service is the narration of the Hegira or the flight of Prophet Muhammad from Mecca to Medina. Muslims are supposed to reflect on their life, the manner in which they are leading their life and about their own mortality. The day is spent in prayer and on reflecting on how one is leading one's life. The New Year is known as Maal Hijra among the Muslims. Recently a number of Muslims have started sending greeting cards to each other on their New Year's Day.
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