What countries celebrate the New Year and what customs are different from ours?

In addition to China, many countries in the world celebrate the Spring Festival, mainly some Southeast Asian countries influenced by China culture, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia. All these countries regard the Spring Festival as a legal holiday.

At present, China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia celebrate the Spring Festival, mainly in Asian countries, and the rest are China people living in other countries.

South Korea

Korea is a very traditional country. The Spring Festival is a festival focusing on ancestor worship and filial piety, and it is a day to worship ancestors and pray for family peace. 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. People in China eat rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and Koreans also have special foods during the Spring Festival, which are collectively called "New Year's Eve". The most representative Spring Festival food that has been handed down so far is "rice cake slice soup".

Japan

Before the Spring Festival, it was the biggest festival in Japan. Every family decorated their houses with pines and cypresses. On New Year's Eve, the whole family kept vigil around the stove. At midnight, the temple rang the bell 108 and exchanged New Year greetings the next day. 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. Prices range from 1000 yen to tens of thousands of yen. Because of its popularity, Fu Bao often began to pre-sell several years ago.

Viet Nam

The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively traditional festival among Vietnamese people. Vietnamese regard the Spring Festival as a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Generally, preparations for the Spring Festival begin in the middle of February of the 65438+ lunar calendar. In the past, flowers, Chinese New Year's jiaozi, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers were probably the most indispensable things for Vietnamese Spring Festival. 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.

Singapore

The lunar new year is coming. In Singapore, where the Chinese population accounts for nearly 80%, it is undoubtedly the most important festival with the strongest atmosphere in a year. After Christmas, all the streets and business districts put on the traditional Spring Festival costumes of China. Red lanterns, large and small, are hung high and New Year pictures are attached, which makes people happy. In Chinatown, the traditional shops in China are crowded with people who buy new year's goods, and traditional New Year songs are played in the street, which is very lively.

Malaysia

The custom of celebrating the Spring Festival in Malaysia is almost the same as that in China. Because most of the local Chinese are from Fujian, influenced by Minnan culture, people must buy pineapples (pineapples) for the New Year. The Minnan dialect "pineapple" is homophonic with "Wanglai", and pineapple has become an auspicious fruit in 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.

Indonesia

Indonesian Chinese celebrate the eve of the Spring Festival and the New Year with family dinners. Young people like to stay in hotels and restaurants, but old people like to invite their children and grandchildren to their side, have dinner at home, talk about their families, and give red envelopes, which makes them happy. Get together in restaurants of big hotels and star-rated hotels. While enjoying delicious food, you can also enjoy traditional dragon and lion dances, martial arts and folk song and dance performances.