Which countries in the world celebrate Chinese New Year

Countries that celebrate the Spring Festival are: Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and so on.

1, South Korea

Korean Spring Festival is a festival based on ancestor worship and filial piety ideas, a day of ancestor worship and prayers for family peace. There are many traditional customs of the Korean Spring Festival, including the legend of the yearly makeup, the yearly painting, the blessed strainer and so on. The customs that have been passed down to this day include ancestor worship, annual prayers, Deokjeon, Moksil Throwing, and the jumping off of boards. Koreans eat rice cake in soup on Lunar New Year's Day.

2, Japan

Japan's biggest national festival is the Spring Festival, Japan's families in the New Year's Eve when the whole family reunion by the fireplace, and the temple at midnight will ring 108 bells, the second family began to pay tribute to each other. In Japan, there is a product called "Fukubukuro" that is sold on New Year's Eve. Fukubukuro are opaque bags that contain goods. There are many different kinds of bags, including cosmetics, clothing, miscellaneous goods, electrical appliances, and anything else that can fit in a bag.

3, Vietnam

Vietnamese people see the Lunar New Year as a day to celebrate the old and welcome the new, generally from December of the lunar calendar to start doing the New Year's preparations for New Year's Eve, and traditionally, the most indispensable Vietnamese Lunar New Year is probably to be counted as flowers, rice dumplings, spring scrolls, firecrackers. Vietnamese people also have the habit of posting spring scrolls during the Lunar New Year. In the past, spring scrolls were written in Chinese characters, but after the romanization of the characters, most of the spring scrolls are now written in pinyin characters, and each pinyin character is a square, which creates its own style.

4, Singapore

In Singapore, where the Chinese population accounts for most of the population, the Spring Festival is undoubtedly the most important festival of the year with the strongest atmosphere. Before the Spring Festival, the streets and commercial districts are dressed up in traditional Chinese Spring Festival costumes, with big red lanterns hanging high and New Year's paintings plastered all over the place. Traditional Chinese stores in Chinatown were filled with shoppers, and traditional New Year songs were played in the streets!

5, Malaysia

Malaysia because there is a large part of the Chinese, the custom of the Chinese New Year and the Asian countries are largely the same, because the local Chinese mostly from Fujian, by the influence of the Minnan culture, the people must buy pineapple (that is, pineapple) for the Chinese New Year, and the Minnan "pineapple" and "wanglai". Pineapple" and "wanglai" in Minnan language harmonize, pineapple has become the lucky fruit of the Spring Festival. During the festival when people pay their respects to each other, like to bring some orange, into the door to the host, orange and "Ji" harmonics, symbolizing good luck.

6, Indonesia

Indonesian Chinese people now celebrate the Spring Festival when some of the younger people like to hotels and restaurants, while the elderly like to call their children and grandchildren to the side, in the home to eat New Year's Eve dinner, catching up on the family life, send red envelopes, and have a good time. At the same time in large restaurants and star hotels. Restaurant over the Spring Festival can also enjoy the traditional dragon dance, lion dance and martial arts and folk songs and dances.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - South Korea

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Japan