How do countries around the world celebrate the New Year?

There are about 30 million overseas Chinese, scattered in 120 countries and regions around the world, almost all over the world. Overseas Chinese have brought Spring Festival celebrations to every corner of the world with their love for China New Year. At that time, countries around the world will hold Spring Festival receptions and issue Spring Festival stamps to celebrate the China New Year.

The Spring Festival is not only a day for overseas Chinese descendants to inherit Chinese culture, but also a day for Chinese culture to shine on the world multicultural stage.

Asia

Singapore

When Chinese celebrate the Spring Festival, every family will steam rice cakes, put up Spring Festival couplets, visit flower markets and have a reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. On the Spring Festival, the younger generation pays New Year greetings to their elders, and the children get lucky money from their elders. Put away all the brooms at the beginning of the year and don't sweep the floor, lest you sweep away your good luck. When Chinese Singaporeans pay New Year's greetings, they must hold a small paper bag with two oranges as New Year's gifts, which symbolizes many meanings such as "good luck", "two golden grains" and "yes man". Citrus has become one of the necessities that Chinese Singaporeans must purchase before the Lunar New Year, and the demand is often in short supply before the Lunar New Year.

The Spring Festival Temple Fair, which almost disappeared in Singapore, has reappeared in the Chenghuang Temple Square in leek city in recent years, attracting thousands of people every year. The unique Fujian Taiwanese opera, modern song and dance performances, food stalls and game booths at the temple fair made local citizens feel the excitement and celebration of the Spring Festival.

Myanmar (Southeast Asian countries)

On New Year's Eve, the whole family will have dinner together and get together after dinner, waiting for the arrival of the New Year's Day. New Year's Day is also a legal public holiday here. People wear new clothes to visit relatives, and relatives and friends living in different places use this festival to get together to celebrate the New Year.

Thailand

Shops run by China people usually close during the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, every family will hold an ancestor worship ceremony, and then the whole family will sit around and have a reunion dinner. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, when friends and relatives exchange New Year greetings, they are used to holding hands and crossing their hands to say "good luck" to each other.

United States of America

United States of America

China's Spring Festival is getting more and more attention in the United States. Since 2003, new york has listed the Spring Festival as a public holiday. People enjoy the same treatment as other legal public holidays. Although the school will not be closed, students can ask for leave from school on the grounds of the Spring Festival. The new york administration also allowed firecrackers to be set off in China City and Flushing, where China people live. California also announced the China Lunar New Year in 2004.

Every Lunar New Year in China, the 1327 lantern of the Empire State Building, a landmark building in new york, will change the color of the American Stars and Stripes in the past and light up the red and gold that China people like to celebrate the Lunar New Year in China. This form has been going on for six years.

Chinese in new york hold a "New Year Float Parade" and perform dragon and lion dances every Spring Festival. In recent years, it has attracted Disney and sent cartoon characters for entertainment. Americans who pay more and more attention to China culture will even spend the holidays with you in a Chinese-style cheongsam.

Canada

At present, the number of Chinese in Canada has reached one million, making it the third largest ethnic group in Canada. Due to the increase of Chinese, the Spring Festival has become an important local festival, and the influence of Chinese culture is expanding day by day.

Every twelfth lunar month, from Toronto in eastern Canada to Vancouver in the west, Chinese communities begin to celebrate the Spring Festival one after another. Where there are embassies and consulates in China, China diplomats and local government officials will be invited to participate in various celebrations. Dragon and lion dances, martial arts acrobatics, song and dance costume performances, temple fair exhibitions, carnival parades and other activities add beautiful scenery to the local area. In Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and other big cities, Chinese communities and some local communities and management organizations jointly hold New Year activities. China's "specialties" such as lion dance, yangko, Peking Opera, lanterns, paper-cutting and Chinese knots deeply attract residents of other ethnic groups.

During the celebration, there are also many foreigners who love China culture. For example, foreigners' faces are often seen in the lion dance team. In the capital Ottawa, there is a Greek singer named George who especially likes to sing China folk songs. In Montreal, a Canadian named Jimmy can play a touching Chinese folk music with the China national musical instrument Erhu.

Europe

Britain, England

During the Spring Festival in Britain in recent years, I heard such an auspicious saying: Sesame blossoms are on the rise.

In addition to politicians paying New Year greetings to British Chinese and hosting Spring Festival receptions, the mainstream society also actively participated in the celebrations. World-class museums such as the British Library, small and medium-sized museums, theaters, foundations, universities and even community centers will hold cultural introduction activities for the Spring Festival in China. Primary and secondary schools will also teach children the Spring Festival customs in China and how to make red envelopes, lanterns and dragons.

London Chinatown attracts 6 million tourists every year, and Trafalgar Square Spring Festival celebration sponsored by London Chinatown Chamber of Commerce has become a famous tourist brand in London.

France

With the increasing influence of overseas Chinese in France, China's Spring Festival celebrations have been accepted by the Paris municipal government and citizens. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, Parisians always bring their families to the parade and performance places to celebrate the festival with overseas Chinese.

Every Spring Festival, deafening firecrackers sounded in the Paris City Square covered with red lanterns, and many Parisians gathered here to watch the colorful Spring Festival parade jointly organized by the French Chinese Overseas Chinese Mission. The mayor of Paris will also make the finishing point for the lion to welcome the spring. For a time, gongs and drums were loud, golden dragons and silver dragons danced up and down, colorful lions were full of energy, and wonderful performances such as safe waist drums, Peking Opera figures and dragon boat news promoted Chinese civilization.

Oceania

Australia

China Lunar New Year celebrations are held in Sydney every year, and the dragon boat race, the grand finale, often attracts hundreds of thousands of spectators. Hundreds of dragon boat riders compete to splash water, and China's traditional dragon and lion dances, martial arts performances and folk song and dance performances deeply attract every audience.

Melbourne has the longest dragon in the world, up to 150m, with a history of over 100 years. Every Spring Festival, more than 200 robust Australians and China people carry this dragon through the streets, which is very spectacular.

Africa

South Africa

Chinese in Johannesburg worship God, heaven and earth, burn incense and have a reunion dinner every New Year's Eve, and local Hakkas also make tofu and stir-fry rice cakes. We will also go to China City to watch firecrackers, lion dance and dragon dance.