Which countries celebrate the Spring Festival?

The countries that celebrate the Spring Festival mainly include Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaysia.

1, Korea

Korean Spring Festival is a festival focusing on ancestor worship and filial piety, and it is a day to worship ancestors and pray for family safety. There are many traditional customs in Korean Spring Festival, such as makeup, painting, hedges, catching night ghosts and so on. The customs that have been passed down to this day include ancestor worship, New Year greetings, morality, "throwing four trees" and springboard. Koreans eat rice cakes and sliced soup during the Spring Festival.

2. Japan

The biggest festival in Japan is the Spring Festival. On New Year's Eve, Japanese families gather by the fire, the temple fair rings the bell of 108 at midnight, and the second family begins to greet each other. In Japan, there is a product called "Fu Bao" in the New Year. The so-called blessing bag is an opaque bag containing items. There are many kinds of blessing bags, including cosmetics, clothing, daily necessities and electrical appliances. In short, anything that can be put in the bag will do.

3. Vietnam

Vietnamese regard the Spring Festival as a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Generally speaking, preparations for the Spring Festival begin from the 65438+February of the lunar calendar, and the most essential things for the Vietnamese Spring Festival are probably flowers, Chinese New Year's jiaozi, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers. Vietnamese also have the habit of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival. In the past, Spring Festival couplets were written in Chinese characters, but now most Spring Festival couplets are written in pinyin, and each pinyin word is a square with its own style.

4. Singapore

In Singapore, where the population of China is nearly the majority, the Spring Festival is undoubtedly the most important festival with the strongest atmosphere in a year. Before the Spring Festival, the streets, alleys and business districts were all dressed in China's traditional Spring Festival costumes, lanterns were hung high, and New Year pictures were hung up, which made people happy. Chinatown: People in traditional shops in China are constantly buying new year's goods, and traditional New Year's songs are played on the street.

5. Malaysia

Because there are a large number of Chinese in Malaysia, the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival is almost the same as that in Asian countries. Because most local Chinese are from Fujian, influenced by Minnan culture, people must buy pineapples (pineapples) during the Spring Festival. The Minnan dialect "pineapple" is homophonic with "Wanglai", and pineapples have become auspicious fruits for the Spring Festival. During festivals, when people pay New Year greetings to each other, they like to bring some oranges to their hosts. Oranges are homophonic with "auspiciousness", symbolizing good luck.