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 are New Year's mascot, heralding the rolling wealth; many people also nailed the horseshoe 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 from illness. ......
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 bells ring in the new year. 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 touches the bells 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
Traditionally in Italy, it is believed that making loud noises on the eve of New Year's Day can ward off evil spirits so that the New Year can be as good as it wants 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 the new year's day, italian families have to burn a stove fire, and to make it a whole day does not go out, because italians believe that the fire comes from the sun, new year's day break the 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 foreshadows 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 bad year.
I don't speak good English~~~hehey only throw bricks to attract jade~
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Overview of New Year's Day customs in various countries
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A new year always brings good wishes to people. On this day of removing the old and welcoming the new, people from all over the world welcome the New Year in their own original and unique ways.
China
In contemporary times, New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year in the AD calendar. Since the introduction of the Western calendar into China, the term New Year's Day has been used exclusively for the new year, while the traditional old calendar year was called the Spring Festival. Before that, New Year's Day has always referred to the first day of the first year of the lunar calendar. Yuan is the "first" "beginning" meaning, Dan refers to the "day", YuanDan together that is "the initial day", also The first day of the year.
September 27, 1949, the first plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference resolved: "the Chinese people **** and the state chronology using the A.D. chronology", that is, what we call the solar calendar, in order to distinguish between the lunar calendar and the solar calendar two New Year, but also in view of the twenty-four seasons of the lunar calendar. "Spring" just before and after the lunar New Year, so the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar was renamed the "Spring Festival", the first day of January in the solar calendar as "New Year's Day", so far, New Year's Day has become the national people's The first day of January on the solar calendar was designated as "New Year's Day".
Britain
On the day before New Year's Day, every household must have wine in the bottle and meat in the cupboard. The British believe that if there is no meat or wine left over, they will be poor in the coming year. In addition, the British also popular New Year's "well water" custom, people are fighting for the first to go to the water, that the first water people happy people, the water is auspicious water. British late at night on New Year's Eve, often with cakes and wine out to visit, they do not knock on the door, they walked straight into the home of friends and relatives. According to English custom, after the thousandth night of New Year's Eve, the person who steps into the house with the first foot heralds the luck of the new year. If the first guest is a dark-haired man, or a happy, happy and wealthy person, the host will be lucky all year round. If the first guest is a woman with light yellow hair, or a sad, poor, unfortunate person, the host will have bad luck in the new year, and will encounter difficulties and disasters. New Year's Eve in the home of friends and family guests, before talking to the fireplace before the fire, to rattle the fire, wish the host "open the door to good luck. In some areas of the British Midlands, New Year's morning out, regardless of acquaintances or strangers, will send each other copper, they believe that this, not only the other side of a year of fortune, but also will bring their own luck.
India
India's New Year's Day is known as "crying New Year's Day" and "fasting New Year's Day". On the first day of the New Year, no one is allowed to be angry with anyone, let alone lose their temper. In some places, not only do not celebrate the New Year, but also hugged each other and cried. They believe that once New Year's Day begins, the years will pass easily - life is short - and they express their lamentation by crying. In some areas, people welcome the new year by fasting for a day and a night, from the early hours of New Year's Day until midnight.
Mongolia
When the new year arrives, elderly Mongolians dress up as shepherds, wearing plush leather jackets and a leather cap, with a whip in their hands, and keep snapping it in the air to ward off evil spirits and blessings.
Brazil
Brazilians swarmed the mountains on New Year's Day, holding torches high. People scramble to find the golden birch fruit that symbolizes happiness. Only those who defy the odds can find this rare fruit. They call it the "search for happiness". In Brazil, there is a unique custom in the countryside -- that is, to pull each other's ears, people meet on New Year's Day, must pull each other's ears, to express blessings.
Pakistan
On New Year's Day, Pakistani people run out of the door with red powder in each hand, see friends and relatives, said the new happy, they will be coated with red powder on each other's foreheads, in order to celebrate the New Year's good luck.
Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, residents of the northern region, every New Year's Day will be held in a fierce goat race to celebrate. Two teams of riders compete for the prey, and the race is both intense and festive.
Argentina
Argentines believe that water is the most holy. On New Year's Day every year, families of young and old in groups to the river to wash "New Year's bath" to wash away all the dirt on the body.
Mexico
Mexico in some areas of the people in the New Year is prohibited to laugh, they **** a year divided into 18 months, 20 days a month, the last 5 days of the year are not allowed to laugh.
Bulgaria
On New Year's Day at the meal, whoever sneezes is allowed to bring happiness to the whole family, and the head of the family promises him the first sheep, cow or foal to wish him to bring happiness to the whole family.
Paraguay
The Paraguayans have designated the last five days of the year as "Cold Food Days". In these five days, from the head of state, down to ordinary people, can not move fireworks, only eat cold food, until New Year's Day, can not make a fire to cook, to celebrate the festivities.
Scotland
Scots on New Year's eve, the door of every household will be put some money, no one to guard, thieves and beggars on this night, saw also not move a penny. Because of local customs, the eve of the New Year, the first money outside the door, the next day, the New Year's Eve, early in the morning when you open the door, you will see the door with money, to take its "wealth at first sight," the meaning of.
Spain
Spanish
Spanish people in the new year and the eve of all the family members are together, to music and games to celebrate. When midnight comes and the clock at twelve o'clock starts to ring the first bell, everyone competes to eat grapes. If a person can eat 12 grapes according to the bell, he or she symbolizes that everything will go well in every month of the New Year. On New Year's Day, it is most taboo for children to curse, fight and cry, as these phenomena are considered bad omens. Therefore, on New Year's Day, adults always try to meet all the requirements of children. At the same time, this day people must carry a gold or copper coin to show good luck.
Belgium
In Belgium, on the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing to do in the countryside is to pay tribute to the animals. People walk up to cows, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals and fervently enunciate to these creatures, "Happy New Year!"
Turkey
Turks take a bath on New Year's Eve and put on new clothes, which they believe will remove the bad luck of the past year and welcome the new year.
Argentina
New Year's day, families have to go to the river for the "New Year's bath". Before entering the water, the first collection of flowers scattered on the surface of the river, and then, everyone jumped into the water to enjoy the bath, while using the petals to rub the body, in this country, the water is regarded as "holy" things.
Cuba
On the night before New Year's Day, each person prepares a bowl of water, and when they hear the New Year's bell ringing, they quickly splash the water onto the street, meaning "getting rid of the New Year"
Colombia
On the eve of New Year's Day, very large golems - "the old year" - are made in every street.
On the eve of New Year's Day, every street makes a big puppet-"Old Year"-and announces "Last Words of the Old Year", which is funny and entertaining to make people happy. The "puppet" blew up at midnight, and in the sound of the explosion that crushed the "puppet" of the old year, people sang and danced and celebrated with each other.
Japan
Japanese people in the early morning of New Year's Day, the family went out to meet the rising sun, and then go to the shrine to worship, or to greet each other to friends and relatives. They call New Year's Day "Shoichi". On this day, they have a rich breakfast of sugar carrots, buckwheat noodles, and soba noodles, and drink Tusu wine. After that, they eat vegetarian food for three days to show piety and pray for good luck in the coming year.
Thailand
Thailand's traditional New Year, that is, "Songkran" ("Songkran" is the translation of the Sanskrit language), also known as "Water Festival", the festival, people During the festival, people sprinkle water on each other and wish their elders a long and healthy life and friends and relatives a lucky New Year. Unmarried young men and women use water to express their love for each other. Thai people on the first day of the new year in the window sill, the door put a pot of water, pray for the new year, wind and rain.
Germany
Germans in the New Year's Day, every family should be a fir tree and horizontal tree, the leaves of the tree tied full of silk flowers, said the flowers like a brocade, spring in the world. They climbed onto a chair at midnight on New Year's Eve a moment before the New Year's Day, and as soon as the bell rang, they jumped off the chair and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they were shaking off the scourge and jumping into the New Year. In the German countryside is also circulating a New Year's custom - "climb a tree race", to show that step by step.
Egypt
Egyptians take the Nile River rise this day as the beginning of the New Year, known as the "New Year's rise". In some parts of Egypt, on New Year's Day, grains of crops such as soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat, as well as small shoots of green plants, are offered to symbolize abundance. The more you offer to the gods, the more harvests you'll have in the New Year.
Korea
Korea, like China, has the custom of putting up window flowers and peach symbols on New Year's Day to pray for heaven's blessing to drive away ghosts and monsters and bestow happiness. At dawn on New Year's Day, people stuff some banknotes into pre-tied scarecrows and throw them to the crossroads, signifying to send away the evil and welcome the auspicious and lucky stars. At dusk, people burn the hair of the whole family that has fallen off during the year, wishing the family peace in all seasons. During the new year, the north korean people in addition to enjoy to wine and food, but also must do a kind of glutinous rice with pine nuts, chestnut powder, date paste and honey, etc, steamed into a similar with our country's eight treasures of sweet rice to eat, in order to foretell the family prosperous days as sweet as honey.
Singapore
Lunar New Year's Eve, children have the habit of observing the New Year's Eve, until midnight to be parents to worship the gods and ancestors after the end of the activities before going to bed, the next day early in the morning, get up early, happy from the elders to take the "red packet" (New Year's Eve money) to see the dragon dance, lion dance team along the street, men, women and children dressed in festive costumes. Men, women and children wear festive costumes and bring gifts to visit friends and relatives, and everyone's face is filled with a festive atmosphere. On New Year's Day, people love to eat sweet rice cakes made of fried glutinous rice and brown sugar.
Italy
New Year's Eve in Italy is a night of revelry, when the night begins to fall and thousands of people rush out into the streets, lighting firecrackers and fireworks, and even firing live ammunition. Men and women dance until midnight. Families pack up their old belongings and smash anything that can be broken in the house, throwing old pots, bottles and jars out the door to show that they are rid of bad luck and worries, which is their traditional way of saying goodbye to the old year and welcoming the new one.
Iran
Iran has an Islamic calendar, and its seasons and months are not fixed. In Iran, celebrating the New Year means celebrating the arrival of spring, often in late March on the Gregorian calendar, and the New Year is celebrated for a week. People flock to the streets to build "bonfires" - "night fire", and then the whole family in turn from the night fire jumping around, indicating that the burning away of "bad luck "and usher in the light to drive away evil spirits and diseases, and happiness lasts forever. New Year's Eve to eat "seven dishes", the name of each dish should start with the letter "S", to show 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 trek to avoid evil.
France
Celebrating the New Year with alcohol, people start drinking from New Year's Eve until January 3rd. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day is a sign of the new year. Early in the morning on New Year's Day, they go out on the street to look at the wind to divine: blowing the south wind, the omen of wind and rain, the year will be safe and hot; blowing the west wind, there is a fishing and milking the harvest; blowing the east wind, the fruit will be high yield; blowing the north wind, it is a bad year.
Switzerland
Swiss people have the habit of New Year's Day fitness, some of them go in groups to climb the mountain, standing on the top of the mountain in the face of ice and snow, singing loudly about the good life; some in the mountains along the long snowy road skiing, as if looking for the road to happiness; some held stilt-walking competitions, men and women, young and old, and wishing each other good health. To fitness to meet the arrival of the new year.
Greece
On New Year's Day, every family makes a big cake with a silver coin inside. The host cuts the cake into pieces and distributes them to family members or visiting friends and relatives. Whoever eats the piece of cake with the silver coin becomes the luckiest person in the New Year, and everyone congratulates him.
Romania
On the eve of New Year's Day, people erected tall Christmas trees and set up a stage in the square. Citizens burned fireworks while singing and dancing. Rural people celebrate the New Year by pulling wooden plows decorated with all kinds of colorful flowers