Korean New Year: Scarecrow stuffs money and burns his hair at dusk ... Like China, North Korea also has the customs of stick grilles and Fu Tao in the New Year. Koreans put up couplets and New Year pictures in every household during the New Year. Some people stick portraits of birthday girls or fairies on their doors, praying for God's blessing, driving away ghosts and giving people happiness. At the dawn of New Year's Day, people put some money into the scarecrow tied in advance on New Year's Eve and throw it at the crossroads to ward off evil spirits and welcome lucky stars. At dusk, people burn the hair that the whole family has lost for a year and wish their families peace in the four seasons. During the Spring Festival, women in North Korea wear new clothes.
On New Year's Day, girls wear a kind of hemp hat called "blessing towel" and colorful and patterned clothes to have a swing competition. They aimed at a tree flower to see who could kick it or bite it first. Others hang bronze bells on high places. Whoever touches the bell first will win. During the New Year, Koreans must cook glutinous rice with pine nuts, chestnut powder, jujube paste and honey, which is similar to China's eight-treasure rice to show that the family is prosperous and sweet as honey.
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German New Year: Wallets and fish scales ring and jump on chairs.
There is a week before and after the German New Year celebration. During this period, every household should put a fir tree and a cypress tree, and the leaves are covered with silk flower, indicating that the flowers are in full bloom and the spring is full. Just before midnight New Year's Eve, the Germans climbed into the chair. As soon as the bell rang, they jumped up from their chairs and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they had abandoned the disaster and entered the new year.
The children formed a band, put on new clothes and lined up to play in the street with harmonicas and accordions. The adults held colorful flags and shouted and sang behind them to celebrate the New Year. German women will improvise comedy sketches with the theme of family in the New Year. In rural Germany, there is a custom to celebrate the New Year-"Tree Climbing Competition". Boys climb along bare trees, and the first place is called "New Year Hero" to show their promotion step by step.
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Brazilian new year: climbing happiness, meeting, pulling ears.
After the New Year bell rang, Brazilians held high torches and flocked to climb mountains. They scrambled to find birch trees as a symbol of happiness. This activity is called "Looking for Happiness". It is said that only fearless people can find this rare fruit. In rural areas, there is also a unique custom of Chinese New Year-pulling each other's ears. When people meet on New Year's Day, they will try their best to hold each other's ears to express their blessings.
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French New Year: It's a good year to drink all the wine at home.
On New Year's Eve, French people get together and drink champagne around the table. According to tradition, every family should drink all the Tibetan wine that night to avoid bad luck in the coming year. Everyone should be as drunk as a fiddler, so that the new year will have a new beginning. In the early morning of June 65438+ 10/day, parents will give their children "lucky money" to show their love for their children. The French celebrate the New Year with wine, and people have been drinking binge since New Year's Eve until 65438+1October 3.
The French also have a habit of not leaving any wine at home during the Spring Festival, otherwise it will be considered as bad luck in the coming year. So they must drink all the wine at home on New Year's Eve, so that many people get drunk.
The French believe that the weather in New Year indicates a year. On the morning of New Year's Day, they went to the streets to see the wind direction for divination: the south wind blows, which indicates that the weather will be good and the year will be safe and hot; The west wind blows, and fishing has a bumper year; If the east wind blows, the fruit will be rich; When the north wind blows, it is a poor harvest year.
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Belgian New Year: Happy New Year to Livestock
Animals in Belgium are the most popular in the New Year. On New Year's Day, the first thing Belgians do when they get up early in the morning is to pay New Year greetings to animals. They will go to cows, sheep and their pet cats and dogs and greet them very seriously: "Happy New Year!" " "
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Italian new year: throwing things
According to Italian tradition, making noise on New Year's Eve can exorcise evil spirits, so that you can have a happy New Year. Therefore, before New Year's Day, local people will keep setting off fireworks and firecrackers, and they will break everything that can be broken to make noise. On New Year's Day, every family in Italy will light a fire and keep it burning all day, because Italians believe that the fire comes from the sun. If it is cut off on New Year's Day, there will be no light in the coming year.
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Mexican new year: don't laugh before the new year.
Mexicans are very strange. Their traditional rule is not to laugh when New Year's Day comes, for good luck.
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Spanish New Year: Competing for Grapes
In Spain, when the bell at 0/2 o'clock on New Year's Eve/Kloc just struck the first sound, people rushed to eat grapes. If you can eat 12 grapes according to the rhythm of the bell, it symbolizes peace and happiness every month in the new year. Each New Year grape has a different meaning, representing "peace", "harmony", "refuge" and "getting rid of illness" respectively.
According to local customs, it is unlucky for children to swear, fight and cry on New Year's Day. Therefore, on New Year's Day, Spanish parents will meet all the requirements of their children. At the same time, most Spaniards will bring a gold coin or copper coin to welcome good luck.
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Japan
According to the Gregorian calendar, the Japanese New Year begins on February 27th of the first year and lasts until1October 3rd 10 of the second year. You must eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together for dinner. On the morning of New Year's Day, we got together and took turns drinking Tu Su. According to legend, this wine is made from the formula of Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in China during the Three Kingdoms period. Drinking in the New Year can ward off evil spirits, protect health and avoid disasters. After drinking Tu Su's wine, I will eat a kind of rice cake soup called "Yu Za Boil". Different methods have different tastes. Japanese eat a hearty breakfast, sugar taro, buckwheat noodles and Tu Su wine on the "Sunday" (that is, the New Year). After that, they went vegetarian for three days in a row to show their piety and pray for good luck in the coming year.
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Britain, England
Most New Year celebrations in Britain are held on New Year's Eve, and the "welcome banquet" is one of them. This kind of banquet is divided into "family banquet" and "group banquet". Banquets usually start at 8 pm on New Year's Eve and end in the early hours of New Year's Day. There are all kinds of wine, food and snacks at the banquet for people to drink all night.
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Spain
Spaniards love food, and there is a feast every month 12 months. There is a saying in Spain called "Go to the festival when you are full". On the occasion of the new year, they like to eat chicken, fish, shrimp, fruits and vegetables, and try their best to be diversified and colorful. They mainly drink beer and wine when eating, and pay attention to drinking and getting drunk to welcome a nutritious New Year. At midnight, when the first bell rang at 12, everyone began to eat 12 grapes. They must finish them before the tenth stroke, so that the New Year will be happy.
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Russia
Most Russians like to spend the New Year at home. It is rare for a family to get together and enjoy the "Russian cuisine" with exquisite cooking and colorful dishes. At this time, men will drink vodka and women will join in the fun. Strong vodka can not only warm their bodies, but also drive away the cold in their bodies and hearts and bring them a hot New Year.
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Singapore
During the Spring Festival, people like to eat sweet rice cakes made of fried glutinous rice and brown sugar.