The way Vietnam, South Korea and North Korea celebrate the Lunar New Year

Vietnam celebrates the Lunar New Year by sweeping the dust to get rid of the old and welcome the new, South Korea celebrates the Lunar New Year by worshipping the ancestors, and North Korea celebrates the Lunar New Year by putting up spring couplets.

1, Vietnam Spring Festival dust removal to welcome the new

Vietnamese people in the Lunar New Year before the arrival of the big cleaning, the home dust and garbage clean up, means to sweep away all the bad things, to meet the new beginning. In addition, they post red couplets in their homes as well as hang blessed decorations such as red lanterns.

2. Korean Spring Festival Ancestor Sacrifice

For Koreans, the most important activity during the Spring Festival is ancestor sacrifice. On the morning of the Spring Festival, Koreans get up early, put on their beautiful hanbok and worship their ancestors. Koreans believe that dead ancestors will only come back on this day to taste the ritual food.

The Koreans have strict rules for ancestor worship, including "fish east, meat west," "head east, tail west," "red east, white west," and "date, chestnut, pear, persimmon," as well as "date, chestnut, pear, persimmon," and "date, chestnut, pear, persimmon," in order to make sure that their ancestors are not killed, "jujube chestnut pear persimmon", "raw east cooked west", "left rice right soup" and other rules, the sacrificial program is also very strict.

3, the Korean Spring Festival stickers

Households stickers, do all kinds of hearty meals, eat "eight treasures rice", New Year's Eve, the whole family to keep the year-end all-night, play the Gayageum, blowing the pipe. At dawn on the first day of the year, people put on their festive costumes to pay homage to their elders. During the festival, men, women, and children sing and dance, press the springboard, and tug of war. On the night of the 15th day of the first month, a traditional celebration is held, in which a few selected elders climb onto the wooden "Moon Watching Frame" and sing and dance to the long drums, dongxiao and suona.

Foreign New Year

1, Italy

New Year's Day is an important traditional Italian holiday, the Italians believe that the night before the New Year's Eve can be ringing the sky to drive away evil spirits, to seek a New Year as you wish, so the people of that night on the non-stop fireworks, but also wantonly break everything! can break things, small dishes, large tank altar, and the pieces are thrown into the street.

New Year's Day, every family should burn a fire in the house, and the whole day can not be extinguished. Italians believe that fire comes from the sun, and that if the fire is cut off on New Year's Day, it will bring bad luck in the coming year.

2, Belgium

In Belgium, people early in the morning on New Year's Day to do the first thing is to give livestock to pay tribute to the New Year, the Belgians will go to the cattle, sheep, pigs, and their own pets dogs and cats around, and fussed to them to greet: "Happy New Year!"

3, Portugal

New Year's Day is a traditional holiday in Portugal, and ten days before and after New Year's Day is the peak season for bullfighting, so watching bullfighting has become a major New Year's Day in Portugal, but bullfighting here is different from Spain, Portugal's New Year's Day bullfighting is very safe, and the tip of the bull's horns before the show began has been sawed off and the remaining part wrapped in cotton. The tip of the bull's horn is sawed off before the show starts and the remaining part is wrapped in cotton, and the depth of the bullfighter's spear must not exceed 5 centimeters.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - New Year's Day