New Year’s Traditions From Around the World 2021
New Year is a time for a new beginning, hope, leaving the old behind, turning a new chapter, setting goals, looking forward to another eventful year, another birthday..
For some, it’s just another day, they go to sleep, as usual, some spend it with their family and friends, some with strangers watching the ball drop, some viewing magnificent fireworks.
Earliest recorded New Year’s Eve celebration was in Mesopotamia in 2000 B.C in mid-March. Since then, a lot has changed when it comes to how we celebrate New Year’s Eve.
Here are some strange New Year’s Traditions From Around The World;
-In Spain, you can stuff 12 grapes in your mouth at midnight to have good luck in the new year
-French welcome the new year by eating a stack of pancakes
-Wearing colored underwear in some South American countries will determine your fate in the new year. Red is for love, gold is for prosperity, white is for peace
-In Romania, coins are tossed into the river to bring good luck
-In Chile, some spend the night with their deceased loved ones in the cemetery
-Irish hit the walls with bread to rid of evil
-Furniture is thrown out the window in some parts of South Africa
-In Estonia, they eat seven times on new years day for prosperity
-In the Philippines, they try to use as many round things as possible to attract wealth and prosperity in the new year. Round objects represent coins(cash) so if it’s round, they use it on New Years Eve
-In Japan, bells are rung 108 times. In a Buddhist tradition, that is believed to banish sins. They also go into the New Year smiling and laughing
-Southern traditions include eating greens, black-eyed peas, and cornbread
-In Hungary, the tradition is to toss or bury in water a small straw doll symbolizing the passing year
However, you choose to spend yours, hope it’s a memorable one! Wishing you the best of health, happiness, laughter, prosperity in the new year.
New Year’s Traditions From Around the World 2021
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