The Germans also have the custom of wearing new clothes on New Year's Day, they believe that the new year for new clothes, everything is as expected; New Year's messy clothes, the whole year is not smooth. In addition, they will also put a few fish scales in the money clip, because fish scales is the New Year's mascot, heralding the rolling wealth; many people also nailed horseshoes on the wall, used to "drive away the evil spirits".
Spanish New Year's Eve: scrambling to eat grapes when the clock at 12 o'clock on New Year's Eve has just begun to ring the first sound, people will be scrambling to eat grapes, if you can eat 12 according to the bell, it will symbolize the New Year's every month of the peace of mind, but also each grape has a different meaning, such as the first "peace", fifth "The first grape is for peace, the fifth for harmony, the sixth for refuge, and the seventh for relief. ......
On New Year's Day, Spanish parents are particularly "kind" to their children. Spanish parents are particularly "kind" and will fulfill all their children's requests, because according to local custom, children swearing, fighting and crying are bad omens. At the same time, most Spaniards carry a gold or copper coin as a sign of good luck.
India from October 31 every year for the New Year **** 5 days, the fourth day for New Year's Day. On the first day of the New Year, no one is allowed to be angry with anyone, much less lose their temper. Some areas of India, the morning of New Year's Day, families crying, everyone's face tears, they to the passing of the years, life is short, with crying to welcome the New Year, is the lament of life.
People in some areas to fast for a day and a night to meet the new year, from the early morning of New Year's Day until midnight. Because of this strange custom, India's New Year's Day is known as "crying New Year's Day", "fasting New Year's Day". Indians in the New Year's Day before 5 days, all over the Indian epic "Ramayana", (meaning the procession of the Rama), played the epic hero and paper giants "combat", "hero" triggered a fire arrow, the paper giants will be in the audience's cheers! Before New Year's Eve, all the doors of every house are posted with a variety of beautiful pictures.
On the morning of New Year's Day, people carry small refined lamps and red powder packets, and go out to pay New Year's greetings to the elderly and their friends and relatives. After meeting and saying goodbye, they put red powder on each other's foreheads to show good luck and happiness. Young people put red ink into the water gun, shot to friends and relatives, known as "sprinkle red", said auspicious. Indian young people like to meet in the New Year, regardless of familiarity, hand-to-hand combat. The onlookers called the wind to help the wind, often become the object of the girl's pursuit. Indigenous peoples of central India Bohil people, in celebration of the New Year, in the playground erected a smooth and thick wooden pole, the top of the pole with a gift bag, the girls holding Harvest Bamboo pole to try to block to the pole to climb to the boy Wei Zi, the boys are under the pole into a circle, efforts to defend the girls on the pole-climber's attack until the pole-climber to capture the bag to achieve the victory.
U.S. New Year
300,000 people collectively "Cheers". Some 30,000 champagne-wielding revelers gathered in the US gambling capital Las Vegas on New Year's Eve. The city of Las Vegas plans to celebrate the arrival of 2006 with 30,000 people raising their glasses together as the New Year's bells ring. Las Vegas will break their Guinness World Record of 293,000 simultaneous toasts set on New Year's Day 2005.
According to Mayor Goldman, the night will feature big star-studded performances, a party decorated with velvet curtains, and $500,000 worth of fireworks that will burst into the sky as the bells ring in 2006.
California's New Year's Day celebrations are unique, with roses lining the streets and dozens of flower-decorated colorful cars passing by in gowns. People will be elected during the festival the year of the Rose Queen and Rose Princess, ushering in the New Year in appreciation.
British New Year
400,000 people collective carnival. December 31, 2005 evening, London, England, Cape Trafalgar Square will hold a grand carnival, people dressed in holiday costumes, from all directions to the brilliantly lighted dance floor, in the wonderful sound of music, dancing, thousands of crowds, but also gathered to the various plazas, around the center of the square's fountains and the Eros elephant, singing and dancing to the fullest. They danced and sang and partied to their heart's content.
British people in December 31, 2005, late at night, often with cakes and wine to go out to visit, they do not knock on the door, they walked straight into the home of friends and relatives. According to British custom, the first person who steps into the house after the thousandth night of New Year's Eve heralds the luck of the new year. If the first guest is a dark-haired man, or a happy, prosperous person, the host will be lucky all year round. If the first guest is a woman with light yellow hair, or a sad, poor and unfortunate person, the host will have bad luck in the new year. New Year's Eve at the home of friends and relatives, before talking to the fireplace, to rattle the fire, wishing the host "open the door to good luck".
Australian New Year
Tens of thousands of police and citizens will watch the fireworks. 2005 December 31 night, Sydney will hold the largest New Year's Eve fireworks event since the founding of the city. 2005 fireworks theme is the internationally renowned fireworks designer Brian Thomson's design of the "heart of the worker". -The fireworks will be lit in the shape of a giant heart, leaving the public in awe. The scale of the fireworks was "unprecedented".
Singapore's New Year
A fascinating display of light. Singapore's Marina Bay held a major New Year's Eve event from the evening of December 31, 2005 onwards. The organizer of the event, Esplanade, held a rehearsal for the light show on the night of December 30, and these "wishing balls" floating on the water of Marina Bay were lit up in the water, illuminating the surface of the Singapore River and creating a fascinating scene.
Midnight on the 31st, when the bell rings to greet 2006, the sky over Marina Bay will also be lit up with colorful fireworks, the gorgeous sky will be reflected with the lights on the water ball, constituting a "light" and "water" intertwined with the wonders of the year 2006 to kick off a dazzling show.
Brazilian New Year
Hiking for happiness, meeting and pulling ears. After the New Year's bells ring, Brazilians carry torches and flock to the mountains, where they scramble to find the golden birch fruit, a symbol of happiness, in an activity known as the "search for happiness". It is said that only those who defy the odds can find this rare fruit. In rural areas, there is a unique custom during the New Year ----- to pull each other's ears, people meet on New Year's Day, will pull each other's ears, to express blessings.
French New Year: drink all the family wine, the wind direction to divine the year
Drink all the family wine, the wind direction to divine the year.
North Korean New Year: Stuffing banknotes in scarecrows and burning hair at dusk
North Korea, like China, has the custom of putting up window decorations and peach blossom symbols on New Year's Day. The North Koreans put up couplets and New Year's paintings in every house on New Year's Day. Some people put the portrait of the god of longevity or a fairy on the door to pray for heaven's blessing, drive away ghosts and give happiness. At dawn on New Year's Day, people stuffed some banknotes into the scarecrows pre-tied on New Year's Eve and threw them to the crossroads to send away evil and welcome the lucky star. At dusk, people also burn the hair of the whole family that has fallen off during the year, wishing the family peace in all seasons. Women in North Korea dress up for the Lunar New Year.
On New Year's Day, young girls wear a kind of hemp hat, called a "lucky scarf," and colorful clothes with floral patterns, and have a swinging competition. They take a tree flower as a target to see who first kicked or bit to win. There is also a competition in which copper bells are hung on a high place and the winner is the one who rings them first. During the New Year, in addition to enjoying good food and wine, Koreans must also make a kind of glutinous rice with pine nuts, chestnut powder, date paste and honey, etc., steamed into a sweet rice similar to our country's eight treasures to eat, in order to signify the prosperity of the family days as sweet as honey.
Belgium New Year: to the livestock to pay tribute to the New Year
Belgium New Year animals are the most favored. On New Year's Day, the first thing Belgians do after getting up early in the morning is to pay tribute to the animals. They will walk up to cows, sheep and their pet cats and dogs and greet them with a fervent, "Happy New Year!"
Italian New Year's Eve: Wrestling on New Year's Eve
Italian tradition holds that making loud noises on the eve of New Year's Day can ward off evil spirits so that the New Year will be as good as the one you want it to be. So the locals before New Year's Day will be non-stop fireworks, but also break everything that can be broken to create a sound. To New Year's Day, Italian households to burn a stove fire, and to make it all day, because the Italians believe that the fire comes from the sun, New Year's Day, broken fire, the next year will not see the sun.
Mexican New Year: the New Year before the ban on laughter
Mexicans are more strange, their tradition provides that the arrival of New Year's Day is not allowed to laugh, in order to get good luck.
Celebrating the start of a new year is a common custom in countries and regions around the world. "As different countries and regions have different histories, cultures, religious beliefs and ethnic customs, they all have their own different customs for celebrating New Year's Day.
Myanmar - water splashing and playing Thailand - carrying the "Songkran Goddess" parade
Cambodia - sand dunes to wish a good harvest. -Piling up sand dunes to wish for a good harvest Nepal - pilgrimage to idols
Philippines - honoring national heroes Japan - ringing bells 108 times
Singapore - a procession to the city's capital, Singapore.
Singapore - visiting friends and relatives South Korea - flying kites and playing springboard
Indonesia - checking faults and asking for forgiveness Nigeria - bathing and playing with water
Philippines - building sand dunes to celebrate the harvest -- Bathing and playing in the water
Serbia -- Burning bonfires to celebrate the harvest Tanzania -- Exorcising demons and praying for happiness
Sudan --Egypt - "New Year of Rising Waters"
France - from one day to the next. Bulgaria: Building snow towers to welcome the New Year
USA - Burning old things and singing songs Italy - Wrestling for the New Year
North American Indians - Red balls on high poles
Germany - "Jumping on the bandwagon" and "Jumping in the water". >Germany - "jumping into the New Year" Spain - eating twelve grapes
Portugal. Watching a bullfight
Canada - building a snow wall to keep out demons Britain - predicting fate with the "first foot"
Chile --Brazil - Fruit of the Mountain
Argentina - Bathing in a Sea of Flowers Paraguay - five days of cold food
Indonesians eat pomegranates for good luck Thai elephants splash water to congratulate the New Year
Children play with scrap paper in a business district on Dec. 29 in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. Staff in the district celebrate the end of the year by throwing torn pieces of paper out of windows to celebrate the end of the year. This is a local custom at the end of the year.
Iranian New Year customs
Iran has an Islamic calendar, which has irregular seasons and months. In Iran, to celebrate the New Year is to celebrate the arrival of spring, often in the second half of March in the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Day to be celebrated for a week, people flocked to the streets to build a "bonfire" - "night fire", and then the whole family in turn from the night fire jumping around, indicating the burning of the The whole family then jumps on the fire in order to burn away the "bad luck" and usher in the light to drive away evil spirits and diseases, and happiness will last forever. New Year's Eve to eat "seven dishes", the name of each dish should start with the letter "S", for good luck. From the first to the third day of the New Year, people visit friends and relatives to wish each other a happy Spring Festival. On the last day of the New Year, the whole family goes on a trip to avoid evil.
Children in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, on Dec. 29 play with waste paper in a commercial district. Staff in the district celebrate the end of the year by throwing torn pieces of paper out of windows to celebrate the end of the year. This is a local custom at the end of the year.
On New Year's Eve, the French reunite families and drink champagne around the table, a night when everyone is supposed to get drunk so the new year can make a fresh start. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day predicts the year: scrape the south wind, the omen of wind and rain,; scrape the west wind on the harvest year; scrape the east wind, the fruit is highly productive; scrape the north wind, it is a poor year.