What are the customs of New Year's Day in different countries around the world?

1, Italy

Italians believe that the night before New Year's Day, the sound of the sky can drive away the evil spirits, and seek a new year as you wish, so every family on that night, non-stop fireworks, but also wantonly break everything that can be broken, as small as a dish, as big as a jar altar, and the debris thrown out into the street.

On New Year's Day, every family burns a fire in the house, and it cannot be extinguished for a whole day. In our eyes, fire comes from the sun, and if the fire is cut off on New Year's Day, the coming year will not see the sun and will bring bad luck. The young people of Italy have also kept the custom alive."

2, Myanmar

In Myanmar, the New Year is celebrated on the last day of the Water Festival in mid-April every year, so the Burmese have merged the Water Festival and the New Year into one. The Water Festival usually lasts for three or four days, and on the second day of the festival it is customary for both men and women to wash their hair.

During the festival, everyone in both urban and rural areas dresses up in costumes and splashes water on each other to celebrate the new year. Once a year, the Water Festival is also a good time for young people to socialize in the beautiful scenery, many young people take this opportunity to form a good relationship. In the New Year, pouring water on each other, said clean up the old in addition to the dirt, welcome the new to receive blessings.

3, Japan

In Japan, used to be two New Year's Day, New Year's Day and the Spring Festival, and the Chinese New Year is similar. Only in recent years has it been changed to a new calendar year. The night of New Year's Eve is called "New Year's Eve," and on New Year's Eve, there is also a custom in Japan of observing the New Year's Eve, where people eat soba noodles while watching TV programs for the New Year, with male and female solo singing contests being the most popular.

The most iconic and popular event among young people is the annual Red and White Song Festival. At midnight, temples are filled with smoke and bells are rung, often 108 times. It is said that this is because of the Buddhist scriptures, which say, "When you hear the sound of the bell, your worries will be cleared. In Japan, the elderly believe that every time they ring the bell, they will remove one kind of trouble, and ringing it 108 times means to remove all the troubles.

After the bell is rung, people flock to temples to pray for blessings, which is called "Hatsu Atai". Every year, from midnight to New Year's Day, nearly 80 million people go to pray for blessings. On the morning of New Year's Day, my family, in order from the youngest to the oldest, drank tusu wine,**** and tasted green fish roe, black beans, and small dried fish boiled in soy sauce with a slightly sweet flavor. It is said that these foods, which symbolize good fortune, will bring prosperity and good health to children and grandchildren.

4, Chile

The central Chilean town of Talca's New Year's Eve ceremony location is a bit unexpected. At 11 p.m. on the night before New Year's Eve, the mayor of the town opens the gates of the local cemetery, where thousands of locals flock to welcome the new year with their deceased relatives in classical music and candlelight. It is said that this custom was first started by a family. They break into the cemetery on the last night of the year, hoping to be closer to their late father.

5, Germany

In many rural areas of Germany, there is also a New Year's custom of "tree-climbing competition", which means to rise higher and higher. On the occasion of the New Year, German families will be in front of the door on a fir tree or horizontal tree, tree up to three feet high, cut off a number of branches, leaving only the main trunk.

Early in the morning on the first day of the New Year, the village as a unit organization, the organizer of a command, to participate in the tree climbing people immediately ran from home to the tree began to climb the tree in a variety of ways, who arrived early, climbed fast, the first to climb to the top of the tree is known as the "New Year's hero".