Check the information to understand the Chinese New Year customs of various countries and nationalities.

Paraguayans in South America designated the last five days of the year as "Cold Food Festival". During these five days, from the head of state to the people, there were no fireworks and only cold food. After the new year's clock strikes, we can start cooking delicious food and hold a grand banquet to celebrate the new year.

2. Vietnam: No soup.

On New Year's Eve, some ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam will burn incense, kowtow and cook rice in a bucket where they usually get water. After cooking, we worship our ancestors first, and then the whole family will have a New Year's Eve dinner. When eating this meal, soup is absolutely forbidden. They think that if they drink soup, the crops they grow will be flooded.

3. Bulgaria: sneezing cattle and sheep

If you eat New Year's dinner at a Bulgarian home, you must sneeze. According to local customs, the first person who sneezes will bring happiness to the whole family for a year. So the master went to his farm and brought the first sheep, calf or pony he saw first, and gave them to the first guest who sneezed. What a big sneeze!

4. Pakistan: the figure of red powder

On New Year's Day, Pakistanis run out with red powder in their hands, meet their relatives and friends, thank them for their new happiness, and paint red powder on their foreheads to show their good luck in celebrating the New Year.

5. India: Cry without laughing.

In India, every year from June 10 to1October 3 1, New Year is celebrated. There are five days, and the fourth day is New Year's Day. On the first day of the new year, no one is allowed to be angry with others, let alone lose his temper. In some parts of India, people don't celebrate China New Year, but cry.

They think that at the beginning of New Year's Day, the years fly by, and they cry to express their sighs. In some areas, people welcome the New Year by fasting for one day and one night, from the early morning of New Year's Day to midnight.

6. Thailand: splashing water

The traditional New Year in Thailand is from April 13 to June 16 on the Gregorian calendar. During this period, people traveled in cars or cars with huge Buddha statues. Groups of young men and women, wearing colorful national costumes, drumming long drums, singing and dancing.

On both sides of the road where the parade passed, kind men and women lined the streets, and filled the water soaked in scallops with spices in silver bowls and sprinkled it on the Buddha statue and the "Gan Song Goddess". Unmarried young men and women show their love for each other by splashing water.

7. Germany: Jump off the chair.

There is a week before and after the German New Year celebration. During this period, every household should put a fir tree and a horizontal tree, and the leaves are covered with silk flower, indicating that the flowers are in full bloom and the spring is full. At midnight on New Year's Eve, just before the arrival of the New Year, they climbed into the chair. As soon as the bell rang, they jumped up from their chairs and threw a heavy object behind the back of the chair to show that they had abandoned the disaster and entered the new year.

The children formed a band, put on new clothes and lined up to play in the street with harmonicas and accordions. The adults held colorful flags and shouted and sang behind them to celebrate the New Year.

8. Italy: Midnight Carnival

In Italy, New Year's Eve is a night of revelry. People flocked to the streets, setting off firecrackers and fireworks, and even shooting with live ammunition. Men and women danced, and at midnight, every household smashed some fragile things at home. This is their traditional way of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.

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