New Year
2010 is almost over.Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it right.Let
us use hot mood and enthusiasm, New Year, new glory toward into and creation.So today I will list interesting New Year's customs that you may or may not already know.Now, almost everyone celebrates New Year's Day on January 1. Today, as before, people observe the New Year's holiday in many different ways.
Fireworks, parties, and excitement are just a few words that
Tiffany Jewelry cross our minds when we talk about celebrating the New Year.
Especially since black-eyed peas are eaten on New Year's Day in the Southern United States, in hopes of a new year full of good luck. According to Epicurious, this tradition traces back to a Civil War miracle which apparently worked a lot like Hanukkah. The story says that soldiers running low on food survived on a small portion of black-eyed peas for much longer than you'd expect, and that's why their descendants continue to eat them every year. That's right, you just learned some history!
In our opinion, one of the most interesting New Year's events comes from China. Chinese New Year is a special time of year.Yes, yes, the Chinese New Year is in February, but we're still going to mention it here. If you're somewhere with a Chinatown, make plans to welcome in the year alongside the locals, because their streets will be full of long, colorful dragons and friendly dancing lions. It's exciting and fun, and if you follow them around, you'll eventually get to see those lions "eating" some cabbages.They have firecrackers at New Year!
I don't recommend you try to offer real cabbages to real lions, especially if they walk up to you in the street, but in this context, the cabbage represents good fortune. Sort of like in the early 2000s, when rappers called money "mad cheddar".
In northern China, especially in the countryside, people celebrate the New Year by dressing up in ancient costumes and going on parades.Chinese new year celebrations finish with a last round of fireworks to commemorate the Yuan Xiao or Lantern Festival.
Tibet also starts their new year late. In 2011, Losar happens around March 5th, and we've been told they'll be serving Guthuk, a dumpling soup with ingredients like broth, noodles, a sugar cube, a piece of paper, a wool string, a piece of charcoal, and more! While we Americans might find charcoal soup to be grounds for a health inspection, it's the Tibetan way of predicting your personal future. Like finding the ring in Irish barmbrack, only for Richard Gere and The Beastie Boys. Om Mani Padme Hum.
Another country with a great New Year's story is Russia. They've got nice architecture as well.
Russians celebrate on January 1st, just like we do, but only because they were forced into it.
Tiffany Jewelry sale In 1699, Peter The Great just plain moved the celebration 14 days ahead, in order to force Russia to join the rest of the modern world. Russians being Russians, of course, the common man just couldn't let it go, which is how Russia wound up with a New New Year's Day on the First and an Old New Year's Day on the Fourteenth. We also have it on good authority (by which we mean our source is foodbycountry.com) that the holiday food of choice is pryaniki, a sweet cookie made to symbolize sweet wishes for a sweet future. It sounds very My Little Pony, but probably there's some sort of pit fight around the cookie jar. Really, don't mess with those Russians. Hard. Core.
But don't think traditions aren't still appearing. Some people enjoy Singapore's Lo Hei tradition which might possibly have started in the mid-Sixties. And then, there are the Germans. Those Hasslehoff loving Germans. Unless this is some ridiculous prank designed by Slate.com, the Germans have an odd tradition that dates back to the early Seventies. On New Year's Eve, they all turn on the television and watch Dinner For One an English TV play that okay, it's never been aired in the US, so we have no idea. But thanks to Google, we can all watch it together right now.
It's not Patton Oswalt or anything, but it's not really bad. And anyway, who are we to judge? We're the nation that invented the Christmas special.At New Year and always, may peace and love fill your heart, beauty fill your world, contentment and joy fill your days!
Whichever way people choose to welcome the New Year in Scotland, you can be sure that they all have a very good time, and probably enjoy it all with a wee drop of whiskey!
In Spain, people eat twelve grapes for good luck in the new year.Well, there we are. Five New Year's Eve traditions you may or may not have already known about. We'd love to find you some more, but it's our day off. Maybe you guys can research the other 190 countries on your own. It doesn't matter if you track down First Footing or maybe Algeria's Yennayer celebration, we want to see what you find.
People in different countries celebrate the New Year in different ways.A new year is another starting point on the journey of life. Wish you run on you will be welcomed by the nice and charming future.
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