What's the strangest custom in the world?

Tangerines are a must-have New Year's item. Singaporean Chinese must use a delicate small paper bag with two mandarin oranges as a New Year gift to express "great luck", "two grains of gold" and "good things come in pairs". The red packet is a gift that expresses the blessings of "Red envelopes are essential, but this year they will be replaced by gold envelopes. Because gold, blue, black and white are considered auspicious colors in Singapore this year, and the Chinese do not like to use plain colors in the Chinese New Year, so more gold.

Malaysia

Twenty percent of Chinese are Catholic and Christian, and they also celebrate Chinese New Year. For this reason, churches are open on the first day of the Lunar New Year for these congregations to attend mass, and churches also allow Chinese lion dancers to come to the church to symbolize prosperity. On the fifteenth day of the first month, unmarried boys throw apples to unmarried girls, while women throw mandarin oranges to men in the hope of finding an agreeable man or gentle girl in the future.

Iraq

The few Chinese people like to eat crabs salvaged from the Tigris River, but Iraqi natives don't eat crabs because they don't know how to eat them. The Iraqi owner of the Hani store usually only buys a small amount of crab, and if he catches up with any Chinese company that has a large number of people coming, or if the embassy organizes an event to purchase the stuff, this small store will be snapped up. Therefore, in order to ensure that you can eat crabs during the holidays, you have to visit this store every now and then. However, some Chinese in the U.S. are avoiding eating crabs in the Spring Festival because they have the reputation of being rampant or not being able to do the right thing, which can be seen in the difference between the same family and the different cultures.

The United States

Every Chinese New Year, New York's iconic Empire State Building on the 1,327 colorful lights will be a change from the old American Stars and Stripes red, white and blue, light up the Chinese favorite red and gold, to express congratulations on the Chinese Lunar New Year. The format has continued for six years now.

Canada

Because of the local Chinese culture is flourishing, many Chinese people choose to eat New Year's Eve dinner in restaurants, however, at the dinner table, there are two habits are absorbed by the local culture evolved: one is that most of the people talk in a soft voice, there is less talk, the other is that the individual drink freely and moderately, and there is less drunkenness.

Australia

The Chinese New Year falls in the middle of summer, and the Dragon Boat Race is the grand finale of the festivities, often attracting hundreds of thousands of spectators. In addition, Melbourne has the world's longest dragon, at 150 meters long, with a history of more than 100 years. More than 200 able-bodied Australians and Chinese carry the dragon through the streets every Spring Festival, making it an extremely festive event.

The North Pole

On February 16, 2002, China's first purely civilian Arctic expedition flew to the North Pole, and on New Year's Eve in the Norwegian city of Longyearbyen on the Svalbard archipelago held an unprecedented Chinese Polar Spring Festival gala, which ignited a red Chinese flame in the Polar Regions.

Chinese New Year in countries around the world

:Starvation

Indians practiced fasting on New Year's Day, from early morning until midnight. It is only after midnight that families taste the prepared meal and congratulate each other on the New Year.

France: Drink up all the wine

The French have a superstition that if there is leftover wine at home on New Year's Eve, it will bring bad luck in the coming year. Only clean, can usher in a year of good times. Therefore, they would rather get drunk and drink all the wine in the house.

Poland: Eating greens

Polish young girls wear the characteristic rabbit-walking dress to eat greens on New Year's Day, and it is said that eating greens will bring good luck in everything.

Paraguay: No fireworks

The Paraguayans in South America have designated the last five days of the year as "cold food days". During these five days, the head of state, down to the common people, do not move fireworks, only eat cold food. Only after the New Year's clock strikes zero hour can they begin to light fires and cook food, and celebrate the New Year with a feast.

Madagascar: Avoid eating meat

In Madagascar, meat is not allowed to be eaten seven days before the New Year's Day, and only on New Year's Eve can some birds be eaten for dinner. On New Year's Day, couples should present cocktails to both parents to show their respect, and chicken legs to siblings to show their concern and friendship.

Vietnam: soup is forbidden

Some ethnic minorities in the northern region of Vietnam, on New Year's Eve, they have to go to the place where they get water on weekdays to burn incense, kowtow to each other and beat a bucket of water to cook New Year's Eve dinner. After cooking, the ancestors are honored and then the whole family eats the New Year's Eve rice. When eating this meal, soup is absolutely forbidden. They believe that if they drink the soup, the planted crops will be flooded.

Hungary: Avoid eating flying birds

Hungarians do not eat poultry on New Year's Eve, because they believe that by eating chickens, ducks, pigeons and other flying birds, the luck of the coming year will fly away. They send gifts to friends and relatives in the New Year, most like gifts with chimney sweepers and small fat pig graphics, chimney sweeping is of course a symbol of the old, chubby little fat pig, likeable, meaning also like. People respect the little pig figuratively, but in reality it's a different story, because their traditional New Year's food is fried suckling pig, and that's what they're going to do to the little pig!

Bulgaria: sneeze to get cows and sheep

If you eat New Year's Eve dinner in Bulgarian people, you must sneeze, so you will get unexpected benefits. Local customs believe that the first person to sneeze will bring a year of happiness to the whole family. So the director walked to his farm, will be the first to see the first sheep, the first calf, or the first foal to bring over to the first sneezing guests, this sneeze how worth it!