What interesting things do you do on New Year's Eve?

(1) For many people in the world, celebrating the New Year means staying up all night with friends, drinking sparkling wine, humming out-of-tune Auld Lang Syne in front of the bonfire and enjoying fireworks until the sun rises in the New Year.

(2) In Finland, people will pour molten liquid lead into cold water to predict the fate of the new year through the shape of lead in water. If the shot put is shaped like a boat, it means that you will travel in the new year. If it is a ball, it means good luck.

(3) In Denmark, people stand on chairs and jump off them at the stroke of midnight, which symbolizes that people have entered a new year.

(4) Danes also throw plates at friends' homes on New Year's Eve. The more ceramic fragments you find outside the door the next morning, the more popular you will be.

(5) The Spanish will eat twelve grapes before the stroke of midnight, and each grape represents a month of the New Year. If grapes are sweet, then the life it represents in that month is sweet, and grapes are sour, which means that the corresponding month will be worse.

The custom of observing age

Shounian, also called Huoshounian, Zhao Nian, etc. , has a long history. The Han people in China have the habit of observing the new year's eve, commonly known as "forbearing the year"? . On New Year's Eve before New Year's Eve, folk activities are mainly manifested in keeping the New Year by lighting a fire, that is, every household lights up and lights candles, and the whole family gets together to welcome the New Year. On New Year's Eve, burning lamps and candles all night is called "waste". It is said that after this pass, the family's wealth will be enriched in the coming year. ?

In some areas, all-night vigil (staying up until New Year's Eve) is also called vigil, that is, on New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the stove and chat, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics.

In some places, on New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and looking forward to good luck in the new year.

The above contents refer to:

Baidu encyclopedia-new year's eve

Baidu Encyclopedia-Shou Sui (China Folk Year Activity)