12.31.2022 – 09:57 am Updated 12.31.2022 – 09:57h
Festivals and parades, red underwear, traditional dishes, fire rituals and even melting lead. Traditions and customs that are carried out to welcome the new year are very different in various countries in the world. If you want to know some of them, in this guide we explain how the most curious to celebrate the world’s new year’s eve to attract good luck.
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How to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the world to be lucky in the new year
New Year’s Eve around the world is very different from one another, but all are looking for the same thing: luck and fortune for the coming year. Below you can see year-end traditions in various countries and how they celebrate the arrival of the new stage.
Scotland
In Edinburgh they take the date change very seriously. For five days, from December 29 to January 2, they celebrate a the festival known as Hogmanay. Thousands take part in torchlight parades, organize light displays and fireworks in the old city, and flood the streets with flea markets and Celtic dances with the Kilts. On the night of the 31st they gave each other whiskey, a piece of coal and a raisin cake. All of that brings good luck.
In addition to this ritual, the first person to arrive at a house after the end of the year is considered a gift that will bring good luck throughout the new year. This is known as first leg Y are the first guests to go home at the start of the new year. A tradition that is also deeply rooted in England. And it is added to other quirks as you can consult in the following sections.
English
In the most populous part of Great Britain, celebrations are reduced to December 31. That night they counted the last ten seconds of the year and sang Auld Lang Syne while toasting with champagne. This is an 18th century song by the poet Robert Burns, used to bid farewell to the year, to bid farewell to someone as they travel far away, or to bid farewell to someone who has died at their funeral. The refrain reads: Should old friends and the past be forgotten? By the past, my friend, by the past. We will have a cup of affection for the good old days!
German
Teutons take advantage of the last night of the year to predict the future. They melted lead by candlelight. Once it melts on a ladle, pour it into a pot of water; when in contact with it, lead takes on arbitrary shapes. Clues are sold with a list of interpretations: a fist-like cut is the heart and guarantees good luck in love, flowers indicate new friendships. It’s like reading mocha coffee grounds. This divination practice was carried out by the Romans, experts in metal smelting.
Another New Year’s Eve custom is meeting with family to see ‘Dinner for one’, a short which depicts the scene of an old woman who prepares a magnificent dinner for all her guestsincluding those that no longer exist.
That New Year’s Eve in Germany is known as St. Patrick’s Eve. Sylvester and for good wishes, people wish each other ‘guten Rutsch’, which can be translated as good slip and whose intention is to enter the new year on the right foot.
Italy
What do Italians do on New Year’s Eve? They take advantage to promote lucky to fall in love with red sexy lingerie. They got rid of old clothes and furniture to make room for new ones, especially in Naples and Rome, where they had to curb the urge to throw trash out the window.
To attract good luck with money, eat lentils, the appropriate menu? to celebrate this year 2023. The menu ends with classics panettone recipe which puts the finishing touch to a Christmas dinner or lunch.
In this country, as in Spain, the coming of the new year celebrated with lots of fireworks and firecrackers. And, moreover, Italians throw the house out the window as they throw old things out of it to wash away the negativity in the year that is ending.
Poland
Poles are lagging behind in festive fetishism for New Year’s Eve. They weren’t just wearing red panties, but they hide in their wallets the fish scales they eat for dinner on Christmas Eve to ensure professional success the rest of the year. Another very healthy habit is to pay all debts and thus face the coming year with no strings attached. They also do not hesitate to throw away old things. The last days of the year do a good cupboard cleaning.
Argentina
The city of La Plata seen from the sky is a big fall on the night of the 31st. At eleven in the evening, residents of the neighborhoods of Ensenada and Berisso are burning momos, papier-mâché dolls closely resemble Valencian ninots. It was his way of getting rid of the bad things that happened and welcoming the new year.
If you found this information interesting, you may also learn about Christmas traditions from other countries.
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