There are many other countries in the world celebrating the Spring Festival just like our country. These countries are all influenced by the presence of Chinese people. It can be said that as long as there are Chinese in the world, there is a custom of Spring Festival, but there is a big difference between them and China. So what's the difference between foreigners and Chinese new year? What are the customs of Spring Festival in other countries? Come and have a look.
Chinese Spring Festival:
Every year from the 23rd of the 12th lunar month to the 30th of the year, people call this period "spring greeting day", also known as "dust sweeping Day". It is a traditional habit of Chinese people to sweep dust before the Spring Festival for sanitation. About ten days before the festival, every family is preparing new year's products. Before the festival, they need to paste a new year's message written in yellow and red paper on the front door of the house, that is, the Spring Festival couplets written in red paper. The night before the new year's Eve is the 30th night of the lunar new year, also known as new year's Eve, also known as reunion night. On the night of new year's Eve, it's very important to keep the year's Eve. The whole family, old and young, stay the year's Eve together, get together and have a good drink, and share the joy of family. There is a custom of eating dumplings in the northern region on New Year's Eve.
When the first cock crows or the new year's bell strikes, the streets are full of firecrackers, and the noise keeps rising, the family is jubilant. At the beginning of the new year, men, women, old and young are all dressed in festival costumes. First, they celebrate the new year for the elders of the family. In the festival, they also pay for children's new year's Eve, have a reunion dinner, and on the second and third days of the first year, they start to visit relatives and friends, greet each other, congratulate each other, and say something respectful Congratulations on New Year's day, wealth, new year's day, ancestor worship and other activities. Until the 15th Lantern Festival of the first month, the Spring Festival is really over.
Vietnamese Spring Festival:
Glutinous rice and bean paste rice dumplings. Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world that use the lunar calendar, and also one of the few countries that celebrate the Spring Festival nationwide. The Spring Festival is the biggest and most lively traditional festival in Vietnam. Vietnamese regard the Spring Festival as a day to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new. They usually start to prepare for the Spring Festival from the middle of December of the lunar calendar. The most important spring festival in Vietnam is probably flowers, rice dumplings, spring couplets and firecrackers. Flower market is one of the important spring festival activities in Vietnam. For example, in Hanoi, about 10 days before the Spring Festival, the flower market is busy. Vietnamese favorite flowers for the new year are gladiolus, dahlia, kumquat and peach. In addition to flowers and bonsai, the flower market also sells all kinds of balloons, lanterns, toys, New Year pictures, spring couplets, calendars, etc. to decorate the connected streets in a colorful and jubilant way.
Korean Spring Festival:
I want rice cake soup. Chinese Spring Festival is also one of the biggest traditional festivals in South Korea. South Korea is also a very traditional country. The Spring Festival is a festival based on ancestor worship and filial piety. It is a day of ancestor worship and praying for family safety. Today, the Spring Festival has also been given a new meaning by modern people, that is, to let people temporarily free from the tense rhythm of urban life and get a moment of peace and happiness. Therefore, the Spring Festival to Korea where you will be full of joy and auspicious atmosphere.
Japanese New Year customs:
Buy lucky bags. Spring Festival is the biggest festival in Japan before. In Japan, there is a kind of commodity called "Fubao" in the new year. The so-called blessing bag is an opaque bag containing goods. There are many kinds of lucky bags, cosmetics, clothing, living things, electrical appliances, all in all can be put into the bag.
Spring Festival in Singapore:
Southeast Asia has strong characteristics. The Lunar New Year is coming soon. In Singapore, with nearly 80% of the Chinese population, it is undoubtedly the most important festival and the most atmosphere of the year. As soon as Christmas passed, the streets and business districts were decorated with traditional Chinese spring festival costumes. Red lanterns, big and small, hung up high, and New Year pictures were pasted out. They were full of joy. There are an endless stream of people buying new year's products in traditional Chinese shops in niuche water, and traditional New Year's songs are playing in the streets and alleys.
Spring Festival in Malaysia:
Malaysia's Spring Festival customs are similar to China's. because most of the local Chinese are from Fujian, influenced by the culture of Southern Fujian, people must buy pineapples (pineapples) for the Spring Festival. The homophony of "pineapples" and "Wanglai" in the southern Fujian language makes pineapples the auspicious fruit of the Spring Festival.