Origin And New Year Customs Of New Year'S Day

The January 1st of the Gregorian calendar is the beginning of the new year.

The term "New Year's Day" is the "native product" of ancient China. It was born in the summer of China.

In Chinese Chinese, "New Year's Day" is a compound word. "Yuan" is the meaning of "beginning" and "beginning", and "Dan" means dawn or morning.

On the bronze vessels of the Shang Dynasty, there were already hieroglyphs of "Dan".

On the top of the "Dan" is a "sun", which represents a round round sun, and below is a "one" representing the horizon.

"Day" and "one" are combined, that is, the sun leaping out of the horizon and rising slowly.

The phrase "New Year's Day" created by the ancients is very beautiful and ingenious.

In 1911, when the revolution of 1911 overthrew the Qing Dynasty, it decided to adopt the Gregorian calendar and set January 1, 1912 as the January 1st of the first year of the Republic of China, but it was not called "New Year's Day" at that time.

On the eve of the founding of new China, the first plenary session of the Chinese people's Political Consultative Conference adopted a resolution. From the date of the founding of new China, the calendar of the world's common Gregorian calendar was adopted in our calendar in September 27, 1949.

Since then, the January 1st calendar has been officially designated as "New Year's Day", commonly known as "the year of the Gregorian calendar".

Nowadays, most countries in the world regard January 1st as new year's day, but there are also some countries and ethnic groups whose lunar calendar dates are different because of their local calendar traditions, religious beliefs, customs and seasonal climate. This also makes the world colorful and more distinctive.

New Year customs:

Britain: the day before New Year's day, every household must have wine in the bottle, and there are meat in the cupboard.

The British believe that if there is no remaining meat, it will be poor in the coming year.

In addition, the United Kingdom is also popular in the new year's custom of "beating water". People strive for the first to fetch water, and think that the first person to play water is happiness, and the water that comes from them is auspicious water.

On the eve of new year's Eve, the British often take cakes and wine to visit. When they do not knock, they go straight to their relatives' homes.

According to the British custom, the first leg in the house after the eve of the new year's Eve indicates the luck of the new year.

If the first guest is a black haired man, or a happy, happy and wealthy person, the owner will take good luck throughout the year.

If the first guest is a yellow haired woman, or a sad, poor, and unfortunate person, the host will suffer bad luck in the new year, and will encounter difficulties and disasters.

On the eve of the new year's Eve, people who visit their relatives and friends should first play with the fire in the fireplace, and wish the master to "open the door". In some parts of central England, when they go out on New Year's Eve, they will send copper coins to each other whether they are familiar or strange. They think that doing so will not only bring money to the party one year, but also bring luck to themselves.

Scotland: on the eve of new year's day, Scottish people will put some money in front of each house. No one will watch them. Thieves and beggars will never see it on that night.

Because of local customs, before the new year's Eve, we put the money outside the door. The next day, the new year comes. When we open the door early in the morning, we can see that there is money in the doorway.

Belgium: in Belgium, on the morning of new year's day, the first thing in the countryside is to pay New Year's greetings to animals.

People go to cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, cats and other animals. They are very clear about these creatures: "Happy New Year!"

Germany: during the new year's day, every household in Germany has to have a fir tree and a horizontal tree.

On the eve of the new year's Eve, they climbed to the chair at the end of the new year's Eve. When the bell rang, they jumped off the chair and threw a heavy object behind the chair to show off the misfortune and jump into the new year.

In the countryside of Germany, there is a new year's custom, "climbing tree competition", to show that it is rising step by step.

Italy: New Year's Eve is a carnival night in Italy. When night comes, thousands of people rush to the streets, lighting firecrackers and fireworks, and even firing live ammunition.

Men and women danced until midnight.

Every household cleaned up old objects, smashed some broken things in the house, threw out old pots and bottles and bottles, and said that it was a traditional way to celebrate their new year's Eve.

France: Celebrating the new year with wine. People begin to drink and drink until new year's Eve. It didn't end until January 3rd.

The French believe that the weather on New Year's Day indicates the new year's new year.

On the first day of the new year, they went to the streets to watch the wind: divining the south wind, warning the wind and rain, the year will be safe and hot; the west wind blowing, a harvest year for fishing and milking; the fruit will be high in the East and the harvest in the North.

Romania: on the eve of new year's day, people put up tall Christmas trees on the square and set up the stage.

The citizens sang and danced while they were burning fireworks.

Rural people are pulling wooden plows, decorated with colorful flowers, to celebrate the new year.

Switzerland: the Swiss have the habit of keeping fit on New Year's day. Some of them go mountain climbing in groups, standing at the top of the mountain, singing in the snow and ice, singing beautiful life loudly; some skiing along the long snowy path in the mountains and forests as if looking for happiness; some are holding stilts, and men, women and children join in the battle, wishing each other good health.

Fitness to welcome the arrival of the new year.

Greece: on New Year's day, every family has to make a big cake with a silver coin in it.

The owner cut several pieces of cake and gave them to his family or visiting relatives and friends.

Whoever eats the cake with silver coins becomes the luckiest person in the new year. Everyone congratulates him.

Bulgaria: who will sneeze at New Year's day, who will bring happiness to the whole family. The owner will give him the first sheep, ox or foal to wish him happiness for the whole family.

Spain: on the eve of the Spanish, all the family members get together and celebrate with music and games.

At midnight, the twelve clock struck the first sound, and everyone scrambled to eat grapes.

Adding 12 nuts to the bell will symbolize the best wishes for every month of the new year.

On New Year's day, children are often forbidden to swear, fight and cry.

Therefore, on New Year's day, adults always try to satisfy all the requirements of their children.

At the same time, people must carry a gold coin or copper coin to show their auspiciousness.

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Turkey: Turks have to take a bath on New Year's Eve, and then put on new clothes. They think that this will remove the bad breath of the past year and welcome the new year to welcome the coming year.

Japan: on the morning of new year, the Japanese greeted the rising sun by a small family. Then they went to the shrine to pay homage or to greet their relatives and friends.

They call New Year's Day "positive day". On this day, their breakfast is very rich. They eat sugar, jade, buckwheat noodles, and so on.

For 3 days after that, he ate vegetarian food to show his piety and prayed for good fortune in the coming year.

North Korea: like North Korea and China, there is a custom of putting up windows and peach symbols in the new year.

On the dawn of new year's day, people put some banknotes into the pre scathing Scarecrow and threw them to the crossroads, indicating that they had sent away evil and welcomed lucky stars.

At dusk, people burned their hair off the whole family for a year and wished their families peace in the four seasons.

During the new year, the North Koreans, apart from enjoying wine and delicacies, must also make a kind of sweet food similar to the eight treasures rice of our country with glutinous rice, pine nuts, Li Zifen, jujube mud and honey, so as to indicate that the prosperous life of the family is as sweet as honey.

Iran: Islamic calendar is practiced in Iran. Its seasons and months are not fixed.

In Iran, celebrating the new year is a celebration of spring, often in the late March of the Gregorian calendar, to celebrate the new year and celebrate Chongqing for a week.

People rush into the streets and start a "bonfire" - "night fire", and then the whole family jumps from the night fire to show that burning "bad luck", usher in light, drive away evil and destroy disease, and happiness will last forever.

On New Year's Eve, you have to eat "seven dishes". The names of each dish should start with the letter "S" to show auspiciousness.

From the first to the third day, people visit relatives and friends and wish each other a happy Spring Festival.

On the last day of the new year, the whole family went outing to avoid evil.

India: New Year's day in India is called "crying New Year's Day" and "fasting New Year's Day". On the first day of the new year, no one is allowed to be angry with others or to lose their temper.

In some places, instead of celebrating the Spring Festival, they burst into tears.

They believe that at the beginning of new year, time is passing away - life is short, and tears are used to express their sighs.

In some areas, people are fasting for the new year day after night, starting from the early morning of new year's day till midnight.

Pakistan: on the day of new year's day, people in Pakistan run out with their red powder and meet their relatives and friends. When they talk about new happiness, they put red powder on their forehead to celebrate the new year's auspicious wish.

Mongolia: when the new year comes, the old people in Mongolia will dress up as shepherds, wear a fur coat, wear a leather cap, and take a whip in their hands. They will constantly whip the whip in the air to show their exorcism.

Afghanistan: in the northern part of Afghanistan, a fierce goat race is held on New Year's day to celebrate.

Two teams of riders scrambled for their prey. The competition was intense and joyful.

Thailand: Thailand's traditional new year, "songgan Festival" ("Song Gan" is the pliteration of Sanskrit), also known as the "Water Splashing Festival". During the festival, people sprinkle each other and smile happily to the elders for good health and longevity.

Unmarried young men and women use splashing water to express their love for each other.

On the first day of the new year, Thai people put a bowl of fresh water on the window sill and doorway to pray for the best wishes for the new year.

Singapore: on the eve of lunar new year, children have the habit of staying up until the end of the night. When the activities of parents sacrifice gods and ancestors are ended, they can go to bed. In the early morning of the second day, they start early in the morning, happily take the red envelopes (old money) from the elders to see the dragon dance and lion dance team's street performances. Men, women and children wear holiday costumes and bring gifts to visit relatives and friends. Each face is filled with a festive atmosphere.

During the new year, people like to eat sweet rice cakes made from fried glutinous rice and brown sugar.

Brazil: Brazilians on the new year's day hold high fires and flock to mountaineering.

People scrambled to find the golden birch that symbolized happiness.

Only those who are not afraid of danger can find this rare fruit.

They call it "finding happiness". There is a unique custom in Brazil's rural areas, that is, each other's ears. When people meet on New Year's day, they must grasp each other's ears and express their blessings.

Argentina: Argentines think water is the most holy.

Every year on New Year's day, families and young people flock to rivers to wash the "new year bath" to wash away all the filth on their bodies.

Mexico: people in some parts of Mexico are forbidden to laugh when the new year comes. They are divided into 18 months a year, 20 days a month, and not allowed to laugh within the last 5 days of a year.

Paraguay: the last five days of the year are regarded as "cold food days" by the people of the Republic of Pakistan. During these five days, the heads of state and the common people can not smoke and fire. They can only eat cold food until new year's day.

Argentina: on the day of January, every household went to the river to carry out the "new year bath". Before entering the water, the flowers collected were scattered on the river surface. Then, everyone jumped into the water and bathed in the water, while rubbing his body with petals. In this country, water was regarded as "holy".

Cuba: before the new year's Eve, everyone prepared a bowl of water and heard the New Year bell ring. Everyone quickly threw water into the street, meaning "except the year".

Columbia: on the eve of new year's day, every street has made a great puppet - "old year", and declared the contents of "old year's last words" and "last words" funny and funny, so as to win people's happiness and blow up "puppets" at midnight.

Egypt: the day when the Egyptians raised the Nile River as the beginning of the new year, it was called "the new year of water rising". In some parts of Egypt, on the day of new year's day, there were grains of soybeans, lentils, alfalfa and wheat, and some sprout of green plants to symbolize abundance.

The more things we give to God, the more harvest we will have in the new year.