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.

There are many traditional customs in Korean Spring Festival, such as makeup, painting, hedges, catching night ghosts and so on. The customs that have been passed down to this day include ancestor worship, New Year greetings, morality, "throwing four trees" and springboard. People in China eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and Koreans also have special foods during the Spring Festival, which are collectively called "New Year's Eve". The most representative Spring Festival food that has been handed down so far is "rice cake slice soup". In ancient Korea, people worshipped the sun, and the small white rice cakes represented the sun. Eating rice cakes and drinking soup on the morning of the first day of the first month represents the brightness of welcoming the sun. In addition, according to primitive religious beliefs, it also represents the solemnity and cleanness at the time of bidding farewell to the old and welcoming the new. In the past, wild chicken soup was used to make rice cake soup, but now there are few wild chickens, so beef or chicken soup was used instead. Central and northern regions also like to add jiaozi to rice cake soup with pheasant, mung bean sprouts, mushrooms and pickles. In addition, families will also prepare candied fruit, sweet-scented osmanthus soup, eight-treasure rice and sliced meat to receive relatives and friends who come to visit the New Year.

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.

It is also a commodity. Why is the blessing bag so popular? It turns out that the blessing bag is very valuable. In a blessing bag with a thousand yuan, there are often three or four items with a price of about a thousand yuan; Sometimes a 20,000 yen blessing bag contains a digital camera worth 30,000 to 40,000 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 high-quality blessing bags, but consumers will naturally rush to buy them when they think of winning the grand prize, at least for their money.

For merchants, this sales method is very different from ordinary promotion. The general promotion is that consumers come to buy goods, and how many pieces to buy is up to the consumers themselves, while the things in the blessing bag are invisible and merchants can freely match them. Fu Bao is really cheap for consumers. It is said that few Japanese women can resist the temptation of Fu Bao, and the name Fu Bao is also very attractive. Who doesn't want to go home with New Year's greetings?

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.

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

No matter what the result of the competition is, after the Raptors enter the dragon, they will give Hada and snuff bottles to each other when they meet privately to express their deep thoughts and blessings.

Relatives and friends may feel strange to each other during the New Year, because some relatives are far away and may not have seen each other once in ten years. When they met, those weather-beaten faces had become unrecognizable!

I once saw two brothers drinking in the same yurt, but they didn't know each other. It was not until an old man found the "organ" that the two brothers began to cry with joy!

City celebration mode

Some Mongolians who grew up in cities have forgotten their mother tongue and are completely from China. Some can keep their own ethnic groups, but they have to be influenced by the whole environment and follow the trend. The Mongolian people in the city have completely different ideas about the Spring Festival from those on the grassland. They have their own set and another set they learned from the Han people. Generally speaking, they still keep some of their own ways to celebrate, such as eating mutton with their hands, kebabs, singing while drinking, and playing Ma Touqin. This is the way the Mongols celebrate their own festivals.

On the other hand, they also have basically the same way of celebrating as Han people, such as gathering with relatives, having dinner with friends, and inviting their bosses to their homes to enhance 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.

In fact, the reunion dinner is mainly about eating jiaozi. Before the New Year's Eve, the whole family would get together and eat jiaozi while laughing. Jiaozi is very particular about New Year's Eve. First of all, everyone's jiaozi should be the same size, that is to say, the whole family is equal, and no one bullies anyone!

Secondly, the choice of dumpling stuffing must not be sloppy, and the choice of dumpling stuffing on New Year's Eve must have auspicious implications. 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 "Longfei" meat stuffing, horse meat stuffing, coriander stuffing, leek stuffing, mutton stuffing and so on.

All these can be found auspicious signs, such as "Dragon Leaping and Tiger Leaping", "Wan Ma Benteng", "Enjoy spicy food", "Lasting for ever" and "Three sheep opening Thailand".

Happy "explosion"

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

At the same time, firecrackers and fireworks outside also exploded 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 ear is full of festive "explosion" sound, but also full of the joy of the New Year.

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

In fact, no matter the Mongolians on the grassland or the Mongolians in the city, the Chinese New Year is a festival they pay special attention to.

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

Children who grow up in cities rarely know how to use their mother tongue. They were puzzled when they saw their parents talking to strange short men in a language they didn't understand. Why do their parents come here every year to talk to someone?

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

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

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

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.

The local Chinese will have food such as rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and Vietnamese are no exception. Among them, the rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes have the most ethnic characteristics.

The making method of zongzi is the same as that we eat, but Vietnamese zongzi is square and much bigger. Generally, it is 200 grams of glutinous rice, with 200 grams of pork and 150 grams of mung bean paste in the middle and banana leaves outside. Legend has it that Nianzong symbolizes the earth, green represents 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.

China people have the custom of keeping watch on New Year's Eve, and so do Vietnamese people. On New Year's Eve, people put on holiday costumes and flocked to the streets. Young women also put on Vietnamese cheongsam. At 0: 00, 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 "road" are homonyms. "Picking green" means "lucky picking", which means bringing good luck home.

The first guest in the Spring Festival will bring good luck.

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

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

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!

List of Spring Festival celebrations

Chinatown Lunar New Year Lighting Celebration: 65438+ 10 15. From February 28th, there will be more than 400 stalls selling various holiday 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 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 see off the old and welcome the new, and to make the whole family happy! The annual program is wonderful, rich and all-encompassing, lasting more than 10 days.

Si Qi Dream Makeup Parade: Preview at 7: 00 pm on February 18, and formal parade at 7: 30 pm on February 19. The "Si Qi Fantasy Makeup Parade" has been held for 33 years. Every year, there are elaborate float parades, gorgeous costumes, wonderful martial arts performances and graceful dances by dancers!

Sentosa Flower Festival 2005: Don't miss the Flower Festival held in Sentosa Fountain Garden from February 9 to 20! Colorful flowers and tropical natural plants are rare for you.

Spring arrival: From June 65438+1October 65438+March to February 23rd, performers and craftsmen from all over China will bring you a series of wonderful programs in Raffles City Shopping Center. This activity lasts for 65,438+0 months, allowing you to enjoy the profound performances of music, dance and acrobatics that combine China's traditional culture and modern style.

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.

A must-see market

Chinatown New Year Market: Shoppers, please go! The new year's goods market with local characteristics is cheap and good, which makes you feel a stronger Chinese New Year atmosphere!

Chinese New Year Special:1October 28th-February 8th at 5: 00pm-65: 438+00pm, at the junction of Ronon Asu and Hougang, the lively Chinese New Year atmosphere in Ayouni-Jingwan 'an District is like a condensed version of Chinatown! Attractive bright lanterns and rich cultural performances are everywhere.

Expo 2005, Asia Expo Center:1October 26th-February 8th, February1February-March 13, the biggest garden event in Singapore, will bring you spring! Both artificial flowers and garden planting tools can be found in this well-equipped garden, not to mention the gorgeous flowers full of fragrance!

Chinese Art Festival of Binhai Art Center: From February 1 1 to 20th, the Chinese Art Festival, which entered its third year, will present you with outstanding modern and traditional art performances of China art circles. You can enjoy the superb skills of classical guitarist Yang Xuefei and watch the dance of Shenwei Dance Company from new york. Huayi will take you into an unforgettable art field.

Orchard Road, a shopping paradise: For tourists who love fashion brands, Orchard Road is your long-awaited shopping paradise! Shopping centers such as Suntory Plaza, Takashimaya, Belle Palace or Wisema Plaza, and department stores such as Isetan, Meiluo or Luo Minsheng can easily satisfy your desires and let you shop to your heart's content!

Attractions not to be missed

Jurong Bird Park: Why not visit the largest and most famous bird park in Southeast Asia during the Spring Festival? After watching the wonderful bird show and visiting the park, you can also enjoy a "raw fish" dinner with friends and family at FlamingoCafe!

Singapore Zoo: A gorilla, an auspicious representative who loves the zoo, will warmly welcome you with its long arm! Only five minutes away, you can visit the world's first famous night safari park. Step into the jungle-covered tropical forest, spy on the wild animals that move at night and experience the thrilling feeling!

Asian Civilization Museum Spring Festival Celebration: Asian Civilization Museum is a place suitable for the whole family to celebrate the Spring Festival! Here you can make red envelopes, lanterns and watch funny puppet shows by hand.