Countries that celebrate the Lunar New Year abroad include Vietnam, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia. The neighboring countries have been influenced by our culture. In South Korea, North Korea and Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is the most important festival of the year. On the Korean Peninsula, the Lunar New Year is known as the "New Year's Day" or "old first day", and the first three days of the first month of the lunar year are official holidays for the entire nation. In Vietnam, the Lunar New Year holiday runs from New Year's Eve to the third day of the first month of the lunar year, plus a Saturday and Sunday shift, **** 6 days.
Some Chinese-populated Southeast Asian countries also designate the Lunar New Year as an official holiday. In Singapore, the first to the third day of the first month is a public **** holiday. In Malaysia, where Chinese make up a quarter of the population, the government has designated the first and second days of the first month as official holidays. Indonesia and the Philippines, which have large Chinese populations, designated the Lunar New Year as a national public **** holiday in 2003 and 2004, respectively, but there is no holiday in the Philippines.
Customs
1, Zaosai
Folk Zaosai, originated from the ancient custom of fire worship. Such as the "interpretation of the name" said: "stove. Create also, create food also." The duty of the god of the stove is to control the stove fire and manage the food, and later expanded to examine the good and evil on earth, in order to bring down the blessings and disasters. The belief in the god of the stove is a reflection of the Chinese people's dream of having more than enough food and clothing.
2, dust sweeping
In folklore, on the eve of the New Year, there is a "Lunar New Year's Eve, dust sweeping (also known as sweeping the house) custom. The folk proverb says "twenty-four, sweep the house". Folk called "dust day". Sweeping dust is the end of the year cleaning, households have to clean the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, washing bedding curtains, sweeping the courtyard of the six coccyxes, dusting dust cobwebs, dredging nullahs and ditches.