The New Year is one of the most popular holidays around the world. Celebrating New Year's holidays are always planned accurately and carefully. Such plans are always accompanied by fuss, exciting, but always pleasant troubles. This is the planning of the venue, the decoration of houses with New Year trees, various garlands, the global purchase of products, all kinds of fireworks and, most importantly, the purchase of gifts. And, finally, it is generally accepted that the new year is the time for the fulfillment of all desires, the expectation that the new year will bring with it many new and better things. With the concept of this holiday, something magical is always connected. Therefore, the celebration of the new year is the most long-awaited holiday for both children and adults.
It is worth noting that the traditions of the New Year holidays are different for all peoples. Some may seem quite unusual to us, unusual, but still, one common link remains for every culture. This is the expectation of a miracle, which will necessarily bring with itself the coming year.
In some countries, such as Brazil, Bolivia, Ecuador, sales of underwear of different colors are very popular. All because each color has its own symbolism. For example, yellow is the color of income and profit, and red is the symbol of love.
But in the Philippines, on New Year's Eve at the festive table, there must necessarily be round fruit. It is a symbol of the well-being of wealth. But the outfit should have the coloring of a large pea.
The symbol of wealth and prosperity in Spain is the devastation of dozens of grapevines into the New Year chimes. One fight is one grape. The order of the chimes is taken every month of the year, that is, twelve months, twelve strokes. This tradition has existed for a long time. People on New Year's Eve leave for the streets of large cities and collectively eat grapes, washing it down with wine.
It is worth noting one of the most peculiar New Year traditions in Scotland. In order to leave all the unpleasant things in the old year, large, fire-burning balls appear on the streets. It is generally accepted that fire has a purifying property. Thus, in the new year, there is an opportunity to start all over again. On a visit you can come on New Year's Eve, taking a bottle of wine with you. It is believed that the first person who entered the house in the new year brings luck and well-being to each other, which symbolizes the object brought with them.
But, as for the New Year's fortune-telling, in Finland, a significant preference is given to molten tin, which is dripping with water. As the droplets become frozen, a certain pattern is formed, dull and determine what the coming year will bring with it. If in this uzoreka an element, like a heart or a ring, this indicates that this year there will be a wedding. Travel promises seen in the pattern of the ship, seen svinasulit well-being and prosperity.
There is such an interesting tradition - burning in the new year a lot of famous personalities. This phenomenon is common in Panama. With the scarecrow they associate problems, troubles, failures of last year.
In Japan, for many years, during the New Year's holidays, a television project is organized, during which the screen stars, previously divided into two teams, compete in the performance of songs. The evaluation is given to each team by a jury, which includes both professionals and the general public.
The desire to leave all hardships in the past year, forcing the residents of Denmark to jump from the chairs to the chiming clock. It is believed that jumping off the chair represents farewell to the old year, while leaving it all the setbacks, and the transition to the new year, starting with a clean slate.
But in Estonia on New Year's Eve such an interesting tradition has settled, visiting the New Year's table seven times. This is due to the fact that in this way one person acquires luck and health, intended for these people.
A very unusual tradition is in Chile, where a new year is celebrated with family members who left this life, that is, in a cemetery. Sometimes before the battle of the chimes, a cemetery is opened for those wishing to meet a magical holiday in a large and unusual family circle.
And in the US at the time of the battle of the chimes, you must definitely give a kiss to a loved one, or just a friend. This kiss will bring in the new year a lot of love and real happiness.