New Year's Day is a legal holiday and has become a national holiday. After a day's rest, we often adjust the weekend before or after that day, and usually have a three-day rest. In modern China, the celebration of New Year's Day is far less important than the Spring Festival. General organs and enterprises will hold year-end collective celebrations, and there are few folk activities.

2. Britain, Britain

On the day before New Year's Day, every household must have wine in the bottle and meat in the cupboard. The British believe that if there is no wine and meat left over, they will be poor in the coming year. In addition, the custom of "digging wells" is also popular in Britain in the New Year. People strive to be the first person to draw water, thinking that the first person to draw water is a happy person and the water called is auspicious.

3. Belgium

In Belgium, on the morning of New Year's Day, the first thing in the countryside is to pay New Year greetings to livestock. People go to cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals and tell these creatures very seriously: "Happy New Year!" " "

4. Germany

During German New Year's Day, every household should put a fir tree and a horizontal tree, and the leaves are covered with silk flower, which means that a hundred flowers blossom and spring is full.

At midnight on New Year's Eve, just before the arrival of the New Year, they 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. In the rural areas of Germany, there is also a custom of "tree climbing competition" to celebrate the New Year, in order to show the promotion step by step.

5. France

Celebrating the New Year with wine, people began to revel in drinking on New Year's Eve until 65438+1October 3. The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day indicates a new 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; When the west wind blows, there is a bumper harvest year for fishing and milking; If the east wind blows, the fruit will be rich; When the north wind blows, it is a poor harvest year.

Folk songs:

1, New Year's Eve, New clothes and new hats, girls' flowers, boys' guns, and old men's new felt hats.

2. Beijing's ballad: "Children, don't be greedy, it's the year after Laba;" Laba porridge, after drinking for a few days, is twenty-three miles away; Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky; Twenty-four house sweeps; Twenty-five, frozen tofu; Twenty-six, go to buy meat; Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; Twenty-eight, send face; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Stay up for 30 nights; The first day and the second day are full of streets. "

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Development and change:

The concept of "New Year" has different meanings in different times and countries. China's concept of "New Year" always refers to the first day of the first month. The calculation method of "the first month" was also very inconsistent before the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. Therefore, the New Year's Day of the past dynasties is not consistent.

The summer calendar in Xia Dynasty takes January in spring as the first month, the lunar calendar in Shang Dynasty takes December in winter as the first month and the weekly calendar takes November in winter as the first month. After Qin Shihuang unified China, October was the first month in winter, that is, the first day of October was New Year's Day. From Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was stipulated that January in spring was the first month, and the first day of January was called New Year's Day, which was used until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

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