Thailand
The traditional New Year in Thailand, known as Songkran ("Songkran" is the translation of Sanskrit
), is also known as the "Water Festival". Songkran" ("Songkran" is the translation of the Sanskrit word
), also known as the "Water Splashing Festival", is celebrated from April 13th to
16th in the Gregorian calendar. During the festival, people carry or cart around huge Buddha statues,
which are followed by a float on which stands a made-up Songkran woman
goddess, and groups of young men and women dressed in brightly colored national costumes,
beating long drums, singing and dancing. On both sides of the road where the procession passes by, good
men and women walk along the road, using a silver bowl filled with water soaked with shells and oozing with
spices, pouring it onto the Buddha statue and the "Goddess of Songkran," praying for a New Year
as expected, and a good wind and rainfall, and then people sprinkle each other's water with smiles and laughs. Wish elders
generation health and longevity, wish friends and relatives a lucky new year, unmarried young men and women, then
splash water to express their love for each other. Thai people on the first day of the New Year
are in the window sill, the door end of a pot of water, every family should go to the countryside in the river
River for the New Year bathing. To celebrate the New Year, the Thai people held in the scale of
"Elephant Race", content: people and elephants tug-of-war, jumping elephants to pick up things, elephants across the
personal, elephant soccer, the ancient Elephant Formation show, and so on. It is very exciting and moving.
Egypt and
Egypt is an ancient civilization, 40 BC, the Egyptians were able to observe the stars
Elephant, they found that Sirius and the sun rises together, the Nile River water immediately
rise. Egypt took the day of the Nile's rise as the beginning of the new year. It was called
"the New Year of the Rising Waters."
The Egyptian Krut greeted the New Year by placing a
table in front of the door, with seven or eight plates of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa, and wheat grains, as well as small shoots of greenery, which symbolized abundance. The more things that were offered to the gods
, the greater the New Year's harvest. The Egyptian New Year was in the fall,
because agricultural production in Egypt began in the fall.
Germany
Germany's New Year is celebrated for a week before and after. During this time, families
have a fir tree and a koa tree, with silk flowers tied between the leaves, to signify that the flowers
are like a brocade, and that spring is in the air. The Germans climb
up to their chairs at midnight on New Year's Eve, and as soon as the clock strikes, they jump off their chairs and throw a weight behind
the back of the chair as a sign of casting off the mischief and jumping into the New Year. Children form bands, dress up in
new clothes, carry harmoniums and accordions, and parade through the streets playing. Adults,
holding colorful flags, follow behind, shouting and singing to celebrate the New Year, and German women
perform improvised comedic sketches on family themes on New Year's Day. In the German countryside
circulates a New Year's custom ---- "tree-climbing contest", young men along
the bare tree race to climb high, the first place is known as "New Year's hero" to
show to show that they will rise higher and higher in the New Year.
India
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, let alone lose their temper. India has
the region, the morning of New Year's Day, families crying, everyone's face snot and tears
flow, they to the passing of the years, life is short, with the cry to welcome the New Year, is the lamentation of human
life. In some areas, people greet the new
year by fasting for a day and a night, starting in the early hours 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". India
People in the first five days of New Year's Day, all over the world to perform the Indian epic Ramayana,
(meaning the procession of the Rama), playing the hero in the epic and paper giants "fight",
"Hero" The "hero" triggers an arrow that is lit on fire, and the paper giants
catch fire and burn to the ground amidst the cheers of the spectators.
Before the New Year's Eve, various beautiful pictures are posted in front of every house.
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 old
people and friends and relatives. After meeting and saying goodbye, they put red powder on each other's foreheads
to show good luck and raise their heads to see joy. Young people put red ink into a water pistol
and shoot it on their friends and relatives, called "sprinkling red", to express good luck. In India
young people like to meet and fight hand-to-hand on New Year's Day, regardless of familiarity. Onlookers
The good help wind, often become the object of the girl's quest. Central India's indigenous
national Bohil people, to celebrate the New Year, in the playground erected a smooth thick
large wooden pole, the top of the pole there is a small bag containing gifts, the girls holding bamboo
pole to try to thwart to the pole climbed to the boy guards, the young men in the pole under the circle of
, efforts to defend the girls on the pole climber's attack, until the pole climber to seize
the pole, the young people in the pole under the
round, efforts to defend the girls on the pole climber's attack, until pole climber captured
the pouch for victory.
Iran
Iran follows the Islamic calendar, which has irregular seasons and months.
In Iran, celebrating the New Year means celebrating the arrival of spring, often in late March
, and the New Year is celebrated for a week, with people pouring out into the streets to build "bonfires"
- "night fires", and then the whole family goes in turn from the night fires to the night fires, and then the whole family goes in turn from the night fires to the night fires. The whole family jumps from night fire to night fire in order to burn off the "bad luck", usher in the light, 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" to
show auspicious. From the first to the third day of the Lunar 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.
New Year's Day is the first day of the year. The name "New Year's Day" is said to come from Zhuan Xu, one of the three emperors in the legend. He took
the first month of the lunar calendar as Yuan, and the first day as Dan. The word "yuan" means "first" and "beginning," while "dan" means "a red sun rising from the ground," and "yuan" and "dan" mean "the first day of the month. "Dan" and together, that is, to people to vigorously
Qi, to meet the brand new year. On this day, China's cities and rural
villages, are decorated with lanterns and festive costumes, many units
hanging up "celebrate New Year's Day" huge banners to celebrate the New Year.
September 27, 1949, the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Plenary session of the first sector resolved: "The Chinese people **** and the national chronology
year to use the A.D. chronology", that is, what we call the solar calendar, in order to
To distinguish between the lunar calendar and the solar two New Year's Day, but also
The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which was held in Beijing from September 27 to September 28, 1949, has been the most successful in the world. In view of the fact that the 24th
node of the lunar calendar, "Lichun", falls around the time of the Lunar New Year, the first day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar was renamed "Spring Festival", and the first day of January of the solar calendar was
designated as "New Year's Day", so that New Year's Day has become a national festival of joy
.
Japanese people pay special attention to the New Year, every year on December 29 - January
3 for the national vacation. The Japanese call December 31st "Dai
Hi Day", which is also known as New Year's Eve. On the night of New Year's Eve, which the Japanese call
New Year's Eve, they pray to the gods for blessings to usher in a beautiful New Year by sending away the old year, which they call Hatsu Atsui (first attainment).
On New Year's Eve, at midnight, temples in cities and towns ring 108 bells to drive away evil, while Japanese people sit quietly and listen to the "New Year's Eve bells", the sound of which
stops signaling the arrival of the New Year. People then leave their seats and go to bed,
hoping for good dreams. On the morning of New Year's Day, family members sit together and tell each other the dreams they had on New Year's Eve in order to gauge their luck. The Japanese call the first day of New Year's Day
1 "Shoichi", and 1-3 "Sangaichi". On the first day of the New Year,
the younger generation must first go to their parents to greet them, and then go to
relatives and friends to pay respect to the New Year, the New Year is also a festival of "eating", people from all countries
eat their own national food to pray for good luck. The Japanese
On the first day of the New Year, they have a big breakfast, eating carrots and buckwheat noodles and drinking sake. For the next three days, they eat vegetarian food as a sign of piety and to pray for good luck in the coming year. Most Japanese
city dwellers have given up the habit of eating vegetarian food on New Year's Eve, and instead eat
a meal of hollow noodles on New Year's Eve to wish for good health and longevity in the new year.
North Korea, like China, also has the custom of putting up windowpane and peach
charms on New Year's Day. The North Koreans put up couplets and New Year
paintings in every house on New Year's Day. Some people put the portrait of a longevity star or a fairy on their doors to pray for
heaven's blessing, to drive away ghosts and demons and to give happiness. At dawn on New Year's Day, people
stuffed some banknotes into scarecrows pre-tied on New Year's Eve and threw them at
intersections to signify the sending away of evils and welcoming of auspicious and lucky stars. At dusk,
people then burn the hair of the whole family that has fallen off during the year to wish their families
four seasons of peace. Women in North Korea dress up for the New Year's Day. On New Year's Day
the girls wear a kind of hemp hat called "Boksang" and colorful clothes with flower patterns and compete in swinging competitions. They take a
tree flower as a target and see who wins by kicking or biting it first. There is also a competition in which bronze bells are hung high up in the air, and the winner is the one who touches the bells first. During the New Year, in addition to enjoying good food and wine, Korean
speople must make a sweet rice made of glutinous rice
with pine nuts, chestnut powder, date paste and honey, which is similar to our country's "eight treasures" rice and eat it as a sign of prosperity in the family
and to make the days as sweet as honey.
In Britain, the New Year's Day is not as grand as Christmas, but
on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, or according to local customs and habits to carry out all kinds of
kinds of celebrations to show that the old welcome the new. The British late at night on New Year's Eve,
often with cakes and wine to go out to visit, they do not knock on the door, they go straight
into the home of friends and relatives. According to English custom, the person who takes the first step towards
the house after the thousand nights of New Year's Eve heralds the luck of the new year.
If the first guest is a dark-haired man, or a happy, fortunate
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 calamities. On New Year's Eve, those who visit friends and relatives at their homes, before talking to them,
have to stir the fire in the fireplace to bless their hosts with "good luck". Most of the New Year celebrations in Britain
are held on New Year's Eve, and the "New Year's Banquet
is one of them, which is divided into two types: the "family banquet" and the "group banquet. The banquets are divided into two types: family banquets and group banquets, which usually start at 8 p.m. on New Year's Eve and end in the early hours of New Year's Day. A variety of food, drinks and snacks are available for people to enjoy all night long. At midnight, people
turn on their radios and listen to the New Year's bells of the church bells, which ring out
with a great deal of joy, toasts and cheers, and songs of "
The Days of Yesterdays". The "New Year's Eve Ball" is another celebration.
By local inns and dances, night falls. People dressed in festive attire come from all directions to these brilliantly decorated and illuminated dance floors to dance to the sound of beautiful music, and crowds of thousands of people,
also gather in squares to sing, dance and revel around the fountains and the statue of Eros in the center of the square.
This is another celebration, which is also done on television. Television stations also do
live broadcast in the square, so that the people in the home "to keep the New Year" also **** enjoy the fun.