What can we do on New Year's Day?

Post "Celebrate New Year's Day" and have a big meal.

Since New Year's Day was born in the Republic of China and evolved from the Spring Festival, when China just started to celebrate New Year's Day, its customs and habits were of course mostly similar to the Spring Festival, or a scaled-down version of the Spring Festival. Although some traditional ways of celebration are followed, such as setting off firecrackers, killing Sansheng, worshipping ghosts and gods, and offering sacrifices to ancestors, they do not occupy a very important position in people's minds.

In modern times, the custom of Chinese New Year is even simpler. China pays less attention to New Year's Day than New Year's Day, so the custom of New Year's Day in China is to post "Celebrate New Year's Day". In the evening, the whole family went out for a big meal to celebrate the arrival of the New Year.

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Interesting customs of New Year's Day in other countries of the world;

1, France: Drink all the wine at home and wish you good luck in the New Year. New Year's Day in France was originally 1 in April every year. It was not until 1564 10/4 that King Charles IX changed it to 1. Look at a year from one day: celebrate the New Year with wine. People started partying on New Year's Eve and didn't stop until 65438+10.3. Before the New Year comes, French families must drink all the wine left at home, so that many people get drunk.

They think that only when you drink all the wine at home in the New Year can you have good luck in the new year. The French believe that the weather in New Year indicates a year. On the morning of New Year's Day, they went to the streets to see the wind direction for divination: the south wind blows, which indicates that the weather will be good and the year will be safe and hot; The west wind blows, and fishing has a bumper year; If the east wind blows, the fruit will be rich; When the north wind blows, it is a poor harvest year.

2. Spain: Eating 12 grapes symbolizes good every month. On New Year's Day, the streets of Spain are crowded with people holding champagne in one hand and grapes in the other, waiting for the moment when the New Year bell rings in the carnival.

There is a very old local New Year tradition, that is, at the last 12 seconds of the midnight countdown. Eat immediately 12 green grapes (not purple grapes) and make a silent wish in your heart. 12 grapes, 12 wishes. It indicates that every month in the coming year will be 12 months sweet and beautiful.

Because the countdown interval is very close, you don't have time to spit grape seeds or even swallow them. 12 after eating the grapes, the whole mouth is bulging and full of grapes. If you can eat 12 according to the rhythm of the bell, it symbolizes the peace and happiness of every month in the New Year. Each New Year grape has a different meaning, representing "peace", "harmony", "refuge" and "getting rid of illness" respectively.

3. America: Eating herring symbolizes the prosperity of the new year. Many Americans want to eat herring in the New Year. Because this kind of fish always swims in groups, symbolizing the prosperity of the family, another reason why Americans prefer herring is that this kind of fish always works hard in the water, and eating it will make a difference in the new year.

New Year's Day celebrations in California are unique. When the new year comes, roses are everywhere in the streets and lanes, and dozens of floats decorated with flowers slowly pass by with girls in dresses. During the festival, people will choose the rose queen and princess of that year to greet the New Year aesthetically.

4. Britain: The first person to set foot in the house will have good luck. In Britain, New Year's Day on the Gregorian calendar is not as grand as Christmas, but on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, people will carry out various celebrations according to local customs to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.

On New Year's Eve, English people often go out to visit with cakes and wine. They went straight to their relatives and friends' houses without knocking. According to British custom, after the 1001 night of New Year's Eve, the first person who steps into the house indicates the luck of the new year. If the first guest is a man with dark hair, or a happy, happy and rich person, the host will be very lucky all the year round.

If the first guest is a woman with light yellow hair, or a sad, poor and unfortunate person, then the host will be unlucky and will encounter difficulties and disasters in the new year. People who visit relatives and friends' homes on New Year's Eve should first stir the fire in the fireplace and wish the host "open the door" before speaking.

After the New Year bell rings, the British will open the back door of the house and let out the "old year"; Then open the front door to welcome the "New Year". In addition, the custom of sending greeting cards in the New Year also originated in Britain. The first New Year card was born in London on 1843.

5. Japan: Except for the night clock. It is a great event for the Japanese to welcome the New Year. From the end of June+February, 5438, every household cleaned the inside and outside of the house, and some people hung a rope above the door, which is said to be used to drive away ghosts. In the Japanese New Year custom, the door pine is a pair of decorations made of pine and bamboo that are often placed at home and other places during the New Year.

Japanese people pay special attention to the New Year, and every year from February 29th to1October 3rd, 10 are national holidays. On New Year's Eve, temples in urban and rural areas will ring bells 108 to exorcise evil spirits, while Japanese people sit still and listen to the "Night Bell". When the bell stops, it means that the new year is coming. People leave their seats and go to bed, hoping to have a good dream. On the morning of New Year's Day, families will sit around and interpret dreams for each other to measure their luck. ?

On New Year's Day, the Japanese will prepare a rich breakfast, and traditional foods such as sugar, buckwheat noodles and Tu Su wine are essential. For the next three days, you should be vegetarian to show your piety and pray for good luck in the coming year.