Interesting facts about the New year: how it is celebrated in different countries

As you know, in every country and every nation has its own national traditions, related, including, to the celebration of various holidays. Sometimes these traditions are very exotic, unusual and extravagant. Let's see how we celebrate New year in different countries?

To talk about New year celebrations in different countries of the world a lot, but we won't cover everything, but will rather focus on the most extravagant traditions of different Nations, associated with the celebration of the New year.

Let's start with Germany, where the whole world spread the tradition of decorating in the New year tree. By the way, there's this tradition appeared as far back as the middle Ages. The Germans believe that Santa Claus riding on a donkey, so the boots children put the hay to treat. And in Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate is the most interesting: hundreds of thousands of people proposing a toast for the reunification of East and West Germany, where the holiday is celebrated very emotional.

Vietnam beliefs even more interesting - the ancestors of the Vietnamese believed that the new year comes on the back of a carp, so today there is a tradition to buy New year with a live carp and release it in a pond or river. And the main symbol of the holiday, there are branches of the blossoming of the peach, which are placed in the house and give each other.

Another common tradition today gave the world another European country - England. It is giving each other greeting cards. And among the features associated with the New year there, you can select the same tradition treats donkey hay that the Germans, as well as the ritual lovers kissing under a sprig of mistletoe to the strength of the relationship. And this must be done under the bells ringing at 12 o'clock, in honor of the New year. The unusual thing is that ringing these bells begin before 12 midnight, but until the New year wrap their blankets, so they sounded softly, and when he comes, blankets off and they start calling at full power. And in the British Isles people literally let out the Old and let the New year: to do this, they first open the back door of the house when the clock begins to strike 12, and then open the front to the house entered the New year.

But Sweden has given the world the first glass Christmas decorations (in the 19th century). There on the New year it is customary not to extinguish the light houses and brightly illuminate the streets is a real feast of the world.

Very extravagant to celebrate the New year one more Europeans - the French. They bake a cake, in which you put one bean, who is this Bob will get, the bean is declared king and festive night all follow his orders. Yes, we had many liked this tradition, it is strange that still didn't get it and are not popular in Russia. And good French wine makers just have to drink for the next harvest with a barrel of wine: it must be tapped and wish her a happy New year!

In the U.S., where in 1895. at the White house was hanged world's first glowing electric garland, and where the world spread the tradition to write "new job" with promises and plans for the coming year, a solemn feast to arrange not accepted as giving gifts, it only suit for Christmas, and Christmas trees they necessarily are transplanted into the ground, and not thrown away.

But the Finns arrange luncheon and Christmas and New year. It is from Finland came the tradition of melting the wax and put it in cold water, and then the resulting figures to wonder what will happen to a person in the coming year.

Japan gave the world the tradition to celebrate the New year in new clothes, build ice sculptures and castles. The most unusual tradition there is to buy before the New year, the rake, which will help to shovel more happiness".

Unusual and quite common in many countries, new year's tradition is the creation of noise - the louder the better! Panamanians loud shouting and banging, ringing bells, including sirens and honking cars salariat New year. Hungarians in the first second of New year loud whistle - distilled bad and attract prosperity. The Iranians - firing guns.

What if there were no Christmas traditions, the most extravagant among them, all the same, can rightly be considered as those in which something thrown from the Windows. So, in Cuba in 12 hours from the Windows poured water in advance trying to enter in the house dishes - thus Cubans wish the New year clean and bright as water ways. The Italians thrown from the Windows of old things that have taken their place new, and they do it with all their inherent passion, loud and fun. In some areas of Johannesburg (the capital of South Africa) from the Windows fly refrigerators, making New year in this country is very dangerous, in General there is commonly out of Windows too, as the Italians, something old. But in Nepal, the old stuff is burned in large fires with the sunrise.

Very unusual act in the first 3 minutes of the New year the Bulgarians: they absorb the lights are minute new year's kisses, the secret which keeps darkness. Well, far behind in terms of extravagance Christmas traditions all left Ecuadorians. Men there dressed in women's clothing, wear wigs and makeup to make a "mourning widows" bad husbands and burn up dolls.

And in General, all Ecuadorians believe: if you have time for a bout an hour to wear yellow underwear, the money will fall as snow on the head, if red will be happiness in your personal life, if run at the same time around the house with a big bag or suitcase, then the whole year will be traveling.

There are a lot of interesting Christmas traditions in different parts of the world, well, we talked about the most unusual of them, can someone come in handy!