At present, China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia (it seems that it has been a legal holiday since last year), Malaysia, mainly Asian countries, and the rest are Chinese living in other countries.

Koreans celebrate the Spring Festival: Eat rice cake and sliced soup

The Spring Festival in China is also one of the biggest traditional festivals in Korea. As a Korean daughter-in-law married in China, I have been studying and living 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 based on ancestor worship and filial piety, and it is a day to worship ancestors and pray for family safety. 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 get a moment of peace and happiness. Therefore, wherever you go to Korea during the Spring Festival, you will be filled with joyful and auspicious atmosphere.

There are many traditional customs of the Spring Festival in Korea, such as New Year's makeup, New Year's paintings, happiness and hedges, catching night-light ghosts and so on. The customs handed down so far include ancestor worship, New Year worship, moral talk, "throwing four trees" and springboard. People in China eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and Koreans also have special food during the Spring Festival, which is collectively called "New Year's Meal". The most representative Spring Festival cuisine that has been handed down so far is "rice cake and sliced soup". In ancient Korea, people admired the sun, and small round white rice cakes represented the sun. Eating rice cakes and soup on the morning of the first day of the first month of the first month represented the brightness of welcoming the sun. In addition, according to primitive religious beliefs, it also represents the seriousness and cleanliness at the time of resigning the old and welcoming the new and reviving everything. In the past, the soup for making rice cake soup was made of wild chicken soup, but now wild chicken is rare, so beef or chicken soup was used instead. Central and northern regions also like to add jiaozi with pheasant, mung bean sprouts, mushrooms and pickles in rice cake soup. In addition, each family will also prepare candied fruit, cinnamon soup, eight-treasure rice and sliced meat to receive relatives and friends who come to visit the New Year.

Japanese New Year's custom: Buy a blessing bag for good luck

Japan: The Spring Festival is the biggest festival in Japan before. Every family decorates their houses with pine and cypress, and the whole family stays around the stove on New Year's Eve. At midnight, the temple rang 118 bells and exchanged New Year greetings the next day.

In Japan, there is a commodity called "Fu Bao" in the New Year. The so-called blessing bag is an opaque bag containing goods. There are many kinds of blessing bags, such as cosmetics, clothing, daily necessities and electrical appliances. In short, anything that can be put into a bag will do. Prices range from 1111 yen to tens of thousands of yen. Because of its popularity, Fubao often began to be pre-sold years ago.

It's also a commodity. Why are Fu Bao so popular? It turns out that the blessing bag is very valuable. In a blessing bag of 1,111 yuan, there are often three or four items with a price tag of about 1,111 yuan; Sometimes a 21,111-yen blessing bag contains a digital camera worth 31,111 to 41,111 yen. In this way, buying a blessing bag gives people a feeling of winning the grand prize in the New Year. Of course, there are only a few such premium blessing bags, but consumers will naturally rush to buy them at the thought of winning the grand prize and at least being worth the money.

for merchants, this sales method has a very different effect than ordinary sales promotion. The general promotion is that consumers come to buy goods, and it is up to consumers to decide how many pieces to buy, but the things packed in the blessing bag are invisible, and merchants can freely match them. For consumers, Fubao is really cheap. It is said that few Japanese women can resist the temptation of Fubao, and the name Fubao is also very attractive. Who doesn't want to go home with a blessing for the New Year?

Seeing Mongolians during the Spring Festival: Eating, drinking, singing and dancing are flourishing

At the beginning of the Spring Festival, the Mongolian people in northern China are also immersed in a strong atmosphere of joy.

In history, the Spring Festival was not a traditional Mongolian festival, but later, as more and more Han people lived in Mongolian areas, people's customs changed, making the Spring Festival a happy time for Mongolian and Han people to celebrate together!

However, it is also to celebrate the Spring Festival, but the Mongolians on the grassland and the Mongolians living with the Han people in the city have very different ways to celebrate.

colorful costumes

Mongolians on the grassland still maintain their own traditions. In grand festivals, they put on colorful costumes, bring out the most delicious food, invite their best friends and relatives to their homes, and enjoy the rich kumiss while singing and dancing.

The Spring Festival is a great opportunity for people on the grassland to get together and communicate with each other. Because many Mongolians still maintain a nomadic and romantic lifestyle on the grassland, it is difficult for them to meet each other at ordinary times. Friends who have been separated for a long time by the Spring Festival may meet at horse racing meetings or wrestling meetings.

No matter what the results of the competition are, after the fierce enter the dragon, when they meet privately, they will give each other Hada and respect snuff bottles to express their deep feelings of missing and blessing.

Relatives and friends * * * may feel strange to each other when they celebrate the Spring Festival, because some relatives are far away, and they may not have seen each other once in ten years. When they meet, the weathered faces have become hard to recognize!

I once saw a pair of brothers drinking in the same yurt, but they didn't recognize each other. It wasn't until an old man broke the "organ" that the two brothers cried with joy!

ways to celebrate the city

Mongolians who grew up in the city, some of them have forgotten their mother tongue and are completely Chinese; Some can still maintain their own ethnic groups, but they have to be influenced by the whole environment and adapt to the trend. Mongolians in cities have completely different concepts about Spring Festival from grasslands. They have their own set and another set they learned from Han people. Generally, they still keep some of their own ways to celebrate, such as eating mutton by hand, barbecuing mutton kebabs, singing while drinking, pulling Ma Touqin, etc., which are Mongolian's own ways to celebrate festivals.

On the other hand, they also have basically the same ways of celebrating as the Han people, such as getting together with relatives, having dinner with friends, and inviting their superiors to their homes to promote their feelings. Fireworks, yangko, jiaozi, children making new clothes and other programs.

It is essential for Chinese Mongolians to have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve and set off firecrackers at midnight at the turn of the new year and the old.

In fact, the family reunion dinner is mainly about eating jiaozi. Before 1: 11 in the old year, the whole family will get together, laughing and eating jiaozi. Jiaozi is very particular about New Year's Eve. First of all, everyone's jiaozi should be the same size, which means that the whole family is equal and no one bullies anyone!

Secondly, the selection of dumpling stuffing must not be sloppy. The selection of dumpling stuffing on New Year's Eve must have auspicious meaning. For example, you can't choose beef stuffing, because no one wants the new year to be too "hard"; You can't choose carrots either, because no one wants to be more and more confused; Of course, you can't add garlic, which always means it's not enough.

auspicious dumpling stuffing includes "Feilong" meat stuffing, horse meat stuffing, coriander stuffing, leek stuffing, mutton stuffing and so on.

We can find auspicious signs from these, such as: Dragon Leaping and Tiger Leaping, Wan Ma Benteng, eating spicy food, lasting for a long time, and three sheep blossoming.

festive "explosion" sound

On New Year's Eve, this jiaozi must be served at the time when the midnight bell strikes 12 times, symbolizing the farewell of the old year and the welcome of the new year.

At the same time, firecrackers and fireworks outside are exploding with the departure of the old year and the arrival of the new year. At this moment, the sky is full of colorful flames, the ears are full of festive "explosion" sounds, and at the same time, they are filled with the joy of the New Year.

Wearing new clothes is the most concerned thing for children besides red envelopes. Although Mongolian children in cities have been attracted by those ridiculously expensive famous brands, there are still some Mongolian mothers who will let their children wear traditional clothes sewn by themselves in New Year's Day in order not to forget that they are descendants of Mongols. Their deep feelings and painstaking efforts are reflected in the exquisite patterns and meticulous workmanship of the clothes.

In fact, the New Year is a festival that both the Mongolians on the grassland and the Mongolians in the city attach great importance to.

During the Spring Festival, the children of the grassland who wear bright costumes will travel long distances to the city to go shopping, see new things and buy all kinds of new year's goods, and at the same time, they should prepare enough daily necessities for next spring.

Children who grow up in cities rarely know how to use their mother tongue. When they see their parents talking with strange short and strong men in a language they don't understand, they are puzzled. Why do their parents come here every year to talk to someone?

Actually, this place is specially prepared for the "black-faced guests" from these grasslands, but the residents in the city seldom come here to buy things.

Chinese New Year is really different. People who should meet each other can always meet each other at the right time and place, and they can hear what they want to hear, tell what they want to say and share their different happy stories.

This will add a festive atmosphere to the New Year, and it will also take a step forward for next year's reunion.

Vietnamese celebrate the Spring Festival: glutinous rice, bean paste and rice dumplings

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 nationwide.

Spring Festival is the biggest and most lively traditional festival among Vietnamese people. Vietnamese people regard the Spring Festival as a day to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. Generally, they start to prepare for the Spring Festival from mid-February of the lunar calendar. In the past, flowers, New Year's dumplings, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers were probably the most indispensable things in Vietnamese Spring Festival.

The flower market is one of the important activities of the Vietnamese Spring Festival. For example, in Hanoi, about 11 days before the Spring Festival, the flower market began to be lively. 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, etc., which make the connected streets colorful and jubilant.

glutinous rice, pork and green bean paste are used to make new year's dumplings

Vietnamese people 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 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.

local Chinese must have rice cakes and other foods for the Spring Festival, and Vietnamese are no exception. Among them, Nianzong and glutinous rice cakes have the most national characteristics.

Nianzong is made in the same way as the zongzi we eat, but Vietnamese Nianzong is square and much larger. Generally, it is made of 211 grams of glutinous rice, with 211 grams of pork and 151 grams of mung bean paste wrapped in the middle and banana leaves wrapped outside. Legend has it that Nianzong symbolizes the earth, green shows vitality, and pork and mung bean paste represent birds and animals.

Vietnamese used to set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, but since 1995, the Vietnamese government has banned people from setting off fireworks during the Spring Festival.

Chinese people have the custom of keeping New Year's Eve, and so do Vietnamese people. On New Year's Eve, people put on festive costumes and flocked to the streets. Young women also put on Vietnamese cheongsam. At 1: 11, when the national leader's Spring Festival speech was broadcast on the radio, the festive atmosphere reached its climax. Then people also picked a branch to go home. This custom is called "picking green". In Vietnamese, "green" and "Lu" are homonyms. "Green picking" means "Luck picking", which means taking good luck home.

The first guest in the Spring Festival will bring good luck

Vietnamese people have a few days off as usual during the Spring Festival, and there is also the custom of visiting relatives and friends to pay New Year greetings. The first guest to pay a New Year call at home is especially valued. It is said that he will bring good luck to his host. Vietnamese people call it "rushing home" or "rushing to the ground", and its meaning is close to "rushing to be happy". Therefore, Vietnamese usually invite their closest and most respected friends as the first guests in the Spring Festival.

In addition to mutual visits between relatives and friends, during the Spring Festival, various recreational activities were held in the streets, parks and public entertainment places throughout Vietnam for several days, performing traditional Vietnamese dramas, songs and dances, acrobatics, martial arts, wrestling, lion dancing and other folk activities, as well as swinging, chess playing, chicken fighting and bird fighting. The whole of Vietnam was immersed in the festive atmosphere.

Celebrating the Spring Festival in Singapore: Southeast Asia has strong characteristics

The Lunar New Year is coming. In Singapore, where the Chinese population accounts for nearly 81%, it is undoubtedly the most important festival with the strongest atmosphere in a year. As soon as Christmas is over, the streets, alleys and business districts put on the traditional Spring Festival costumes in China. Red lanterns, large and small, are hung high, and New Year pictures are put up, which makes people happy. Chinatown: There are an endless stream of people buying new year's goods in traditional shops in China, and traditional New Year's songs are playing in the streets. It's so lively!

Overview of Spring Festival celebrations

Chinatown Lunar New Year Lighting Celebration: From October 5 to February 28, there will be more than 411 stalls selling various festive gifts in the bustling Chinatown New Year Market. Buy new year's goods here and feel the rich Spring Festival atmosphere! Don't miss the countdown carnival on New Year's Eve on February 8, and celebrate the new Year of the Rooster with the locals!

Spring to the riverside to welcome the new year: From February 7 to February 23, Spring to the riverside to welcome the new year is a grand carnival, to send the old and welcome the new, and to have a happy family! Every year, the program is wonderful, rich and all-encompassing, lasting for more than 11 days.

KISS Dream Makeup Parade: Preview at 7: 11 pm on February 8th, and formal parade at 7: 31 pm on February 9th. In its 33rd year, the "Qisi Dream Makeup Parade" gathers elaborate float parades, gorgeous exotic costumes, amazing martial arts performances and graceful dances of dancers every year!

Sentosa Flower Festival p>2115: Don't miss the Flower Festival held in Sentosa Fountain Garden from February 9th to 21th! Colorful flowers and tropical natural plants are rare for you.

Spring comes to the world: From October 3rd to February 23rd, performers and handicraft masters from all over China will bring you a series of wonderful programs in Raffles City Shopping Center. This activity lasts for 1 months, allowing you to enjoy the profound performance of music, dance and acrobatics that combines China's traditional culture and modern style.

you must try southeast Asian cuisine

Hainan chicken rice: steamed tender chicken and rice cooked with chicken soup. Lesha: coconut milk curry juice with coarse rice flour, shrimp, eggs, shredded chicken and raw clams.

fried noodles: white wide vermicelli is made by frying black sweet sauce, bean sprouts, fish cakes, sausages and raw clams.

Fujian shrimp noodles: thin noodles, shrimp, cuttlefish slices and pork are cooked and fried together. Indian pie: A pie with beef or mutton and served with curry sauce.

curry fish head: the big fish head is cooked with vegetables and curry powder, and eaten with rice, which is sweet and appetizing. With a glass of frozen lemon juice, it will be even more memorable!

Satay: Barbecued kebabs are served with Malay rice dumplings and cucumbers dipped in spicy peanut butter.

luoza: local salad, which contains fruits and vegetables, such as cucumber, bean sprouts, yellow pear, white radish, dried bean curd and even mango and cuttlefish.

Niangjia cake: a dessert which combines the traditions of Chinese and Malays and is famous for its color and fragrance. It is made of glutinous rice, cassava, Banlangen leaves and various tropical fruits such as bananas, durians and coconuts.

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