Koreans celebrate the Spring Festival: eat rice cakes and slice soup.
The Spring Festival in China is also one of the biggest traditional festivals in Korea. As a Korean daughter-in-law married to China, I have studied and lived in Beijing for several years. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, I will miss my hometown Korea and my family there.
Korea is a very traditional country. The Spring Festival is a festival focusing on ancestor worship and filial piety, and it is a day to worship ancestors and pray for family peace. Today, the Spring Festival has also been given a new meaning by modern people, that is, to free people from the tense rhythm of urban life for a while and gain a moment of peace and happiness. Therefore, no matter where you go to Korea during the Spring Festival, it will be filled with a happy and peaceful atmosphere.
Japanese new year custom: buy blessing bags for good luck
Japan: Before the Spring Festival, it was the biggest festival in Japan. Every family decorated their houses with pines and cypresses. On New Year's Eve, the whole family kept vigil around the stove. At midnight, the temple rang the bell 108 and exchanged New Year greetings the next day. In Japan, there is a product called "Fu Bao" in the New Year. The so-called blessing bag is an opaque bag containing items. There are many kinds of blessing bags, including cosmetics, clothing, daily necessities and electrical appliances. In short, anything that can be put in the bag will do. Prices range from 1000 yen to tens of thousands of yen. Because of its popularity, Fu Bao often began to pre-sell several years ago.
Seeing Mongols in Spring Festival: Eating, Drinking, Singing and Dancing.
At the beginning of the Spring Festival, the Mongolian people in the north of China are still immersed in a thick atmosphere of joy.
Historically, the Spring Festival is not a traditional Mongolian festival, but later, with more and more Han people living in Mongolian areas, people's customs have changed, making the Spring Festival a happy time for Mongolian and Han people to celebrate together!
However, it is also the Spring Festival, but the Mongolian people on the grassland and the Mongolian people living with the Han people in the city celebrate in a completely different way.
The clothes are colorful.
The Mongolians on the grassland still maintain their own traditions. In grand festivals, they put on colorful clothes, take out the most delicious food, invite their best friends and relatives to their homes, and enjoy singing and dancing while drinking rich koumiss.
Vietnamese celebrate the Spring Festival: Eat glutinous rice with bean paste during the Spring Festival.
Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world that use the lunar calendar, and it is also one of the few countries that celebrate the Spring Festival.
The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively traditional festival among Vietnamese people. Vietnamese regard the Spring Festival as a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Generally, preparations for the Spring Festival begin in the middle of February of the 65438+ lunar calendar. In the past, flowers, Chinese New Year's jiaozi, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers were probably the most indispensable things for Vietnamese Spring Festival.
Flower market is one of the important activities of Vietnamese Spring Festival. For example, in Hanoi, the flower market began to be lively about 10 days before the Spring Festival. Vietnamese favorite annual flowers are gladiolus, dahlia, kumquat and peach blossom. In addition to flowers and bonsai, the flower market also sells all kinds of balloons, colored lights, toys, New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, calendars and so on. , make the connected streets colorful and jubilant.
Glutinous rice, pork and mung bean paste make zongzi.
Vietnamese also have the habit of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival. In the past, Spring Festival couplets were written in Chinese characters, but now most Spring Festival couplets are written in pinyin, and each pinyin word is a square with its own style.
In addition, Vietnamese people also like to paste the words "Fu" and "Xi" and the images of Fu, Lu and the birthday girl at home, as well as various traditional New Year pictures to express their good wishes and yearning for the New Year.
Singapore celebrates the Spring Festival: Southeast Asia has strong characteristics
The lunar new year is coming. In Singapore, where the Chinese population accounts for nearly 80%, it is undoubtedly the most important festival with the strongest atmosphere in a year. After Christmas, all the streets and business districts put on the traditional Spring Festival costumes of China. Red lanterns, large and small, are hung high and New Year pictures are attached, which makes people happy. Chinatown: People in traditional shops in China are constantly buying new year's goods, and traditional New Year's songs are played on the street. It's too noisy!
Chang Fei Buke Southeast Asian Cuisine
Hainan chicken rice: boiled tender chicken and chicken soup cooked rice. Lesha: Coconut milk curry juice with coarse rice flour, shrimp, eggs, shredded chicken and raw clams.
Fried noodles: Baikuan vermicelli is fried with black sweet sauce, bean sprouts, fish cakes, sausages and raw clams.
Fujian shrimp noodles: fine noodles, shrimp, cuttlefish slices and pork are cooked and fried together. Indian pie: A pie made of beef or mutton with curry sauce.
Curry fish head: the big fish head is cooked with vegetables and curry powder, which is sweet and appetizing with rice. Another glass of frozen lemon juice will be more memorable!
Sadie: The kebab is served with Malay zongzi and cucumber and spicy peanut butter.
Luoza: The local salad contains fruits and vegetables, such as cucumbers, bean sprouts, pears, white radishes, dried bean curd, and even mangoes and cuttlefish.
Niangjiagao: A dessert that combines Chinese and Malay traditions and is famous for its delicious color and flavor. It is made of glutinous rice, cassava, Isatis indigotica leaves and various tropical fruits such as bananas, durians and coconuts.
Chili crab: Delicious seafood cooked with tomato curry sauce and hard shell crab. When in Rome, do as the Romans do, and boldly dip white bread in hot sauce, which is delicious enough to suck your fingers.
"Raw fish" is another Spring Festival delicacy that you must try. Fresh sashimi is an appetizing Chinese salad mixed with various vegetables, sesame seeds, crispy nuts and other ingredients.