In addition to China, which countries do people celebrate the Spring Festival?

South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam also celebrate the Spring Festival.

South Korea:

Like China, Koreans will go home for reunion before New Year's Eve. Therefore, before the Spring Festival, South Korea also had the Spring Festival travel rush craze of "returning home with thousands of troops". It's hard to get a ticket, and many people queued all night just to buy a ticket to go home. Of course, the bustling metropolis in the past was particularly clean during the Spring Festival, and there were not many people on the streets.

During the Spring Festival in China, adults will give their children a red envelope with lucky money to show their concern and sincere wishes to the younger generation. Koreans also have lucky money. On the first day of the first month, when the ancestors are worshipped, the younger generation will pay New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders will give the younger generation lucky money. But Korean lucky money is not packed in a red envelope, but in a white envelope. This is because in the eyes of Koreans, white symbolizes purity and cleanliness.

Singapore:

Apart from China, Singapore is the second country in the world with Chinese as the main ethnic group. Singapore has a population of 6 million, and there are more than 4 million Chinese. Therefore, the people of China let the Spring Festival, a traditional Chinese cultural festival, take root and flourish in Singapore.

Singapore attaches great importance to the Spring Festival. There is generally only one day of public holidays in Singapore, even one day of Christmas, and only two days off during the Spring Festival. During the Spring Festival, the whole city of Singapore is decorated with lanterns and colorful gongs and drums.

The custom of Spring Festival in Singapore is very similar to that in Guangdong. For example, people will bring two oranges to celebrate the New Year during the Spring Festival. This is because in Cantonese, "orange" and "gold" are homophones, and "orange" and "auspicious" are homophones. Sending oranges means sending good luck and wealth.

Like China, Singaporeans also give out red envelopes during the Spring Festival. However, unmarried elders can't give red envelopes to younger generations. It turns out that local customs in Singapore believe that it will be difficult for unmarried men to get married if they give red envelopes to their younger generation. Moreover, unmarried women give red envelopes to their younger generation, which will make marriage difficult.

Vietnam:

Unlike the Spring Festival in China, Viet Nam will buy a live carp during the Spring Festival and offer it to the kitchen god statue. After the kitchen god was burned to death, carp should be put back into the river, not eaten. Why is this? It turns out that Vietnamese folks say that carp is the incarnation of the dragon king. Put this carp back into the river, and it can be used as the kitchen god's car to take him back to the heavenly palace.

Japan:

Celebrate New Year's Day in the solar calendar as the Spring Festival. New Year's Day is the most grand festival in Japan. Every year, 65438+February 29th-65438+1October 3rd is a national holiday, lasting for 6 days. On the evening of June 65438+February 3 1 Gregorian calendar, the Japanese celebrated "New Year's Eve". That night, Japanese families will sit in front of the TV and watch the "Spring Festival Gala" in Japan-"Red and White Song Festival". 65438+1 October1,Japanese people pay New Year greetings to each other. Elders also give their children lucky money. ...