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What are the customs on New Year's Day?

In North Korea, every household will burn all the hair that has fallen off during the year at the dusk of the New Year. It is said that this can keep the whole family safe all year round.

On the New Year's Day of Pakistanis, everyone ran out with red powder. After meeting relatives and friends and thanking them for their new happiness, they rubbed red powder on each other's foreheads to show their good luck in celebrating the New Year.

On New Year's Day, when I wish each other well, they will present handkerchiefs with their names written on them as congratulations. On New Year's Eve, the whole family will get together. When the church bell rings 12, everyone will scramble to eat grapes and ask for 12 according to the rhythm of the bell to show good luck and happiness in the New Year.

Hungarians don't eat poultry during the New Year. They think that poultry have wings. If you eat them, happiness will fly away in the new year.

Sending Stones Every New Year's Day, residents of Crete, Greece, will give a big stone as a gift to their relatives and friends, put it on the floor, and wish the host "I wish your family had gold as big as a stone!" "

Send coal in Britain, people who visit other people's homes in the New Year must take a piece of coal as a New Year gift and put it in their own stove, and at the same time say a blessing: "I wish your coal will never burn out!" "

Sapling gifts Kenyans give each other saplings on New Year's Day, wishing children to grow sturdily like saplings and the elderly to live as long as trees.

On the New Year's Day, Malagasy people like to offer a chicken tail to the elderly to show their respect. Give your brothers and sisters some drumsticks to show your concern.

Paraguayans greet the New Year with cold food five days before the New Year. No matter who doesn't move fireworks, they only eat cold food until the New Year bell rings, and then light a fire to cook food to celebrate the New Year.

There is a unique custom in rural Brazil. When people meet in the new year, they should try to hold each other's ears to celebrate the new year.