In addition to China, there are many countries in the world that have had the Spring Festival customs, mainly some Southeast Asian countries affected by Chinese culture, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.
1, Vietnam Spring Festival
Highlights of the New Year: Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world to use the Chinese calendar. It is also one of the few countries that have held the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively traditional festival in Vietnam. Much like Guangzhou, the flower market is also one of the important activities of Vietnam's Spring Festival. Vietnam's favorite flowers are gladiolus, Dahlia, kumquat and peach. At 0:00 on New Year's Eve, the radio will broadcast the Spring Festival speech by state leaders and the festival atmosphere will culminate. Then people take a branch home, this custom is called "mining green." In Vietnamese, "green" is synonymous with "lu", and "greening" is "collecting fortune," meaning bringing goodwill to home.
Vietnamese people have Spring Festival couplets. Spring couplets used to write in Chinese characters, the text after the pinyin, now most of the Spring Festival to use pinyin text, each pinyin word is a square, self-styled. In addition, Vietnamese people also love to affix the words "blessing" and "double happiness" and images of blessing, luck and longevity at home and various traditional New Year pictures to express their good wishes and longing for the new year.
During the Spring Festival to Vietnam, you can swim the Mekong River, enjoy the Ho Chi Minh, the United States and drag the city's unique New Year decoration, feel the exotic atmosphere of a strong New Year. You can also watch special cultural and entertainment activities in various places, such as Vietnam traditional drama, song and dance, acrobatics, martial arts, wrestling, lion dance, as well as swinging, cockfighting, fighting birds and other folk activities. During the festival, the young woman in a Vietnamese cheongsam is particularly beautiful.
2, South Korea's Spring Festival
There are many traditional festivals in Korea. The four traditional festivals are the Spring Festival, the Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Among them, the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival are one of the most important and grand festivals. The statutory holidays are for three days.
The cultural practices of the Spring Festival over the Korean Peninsula are said to date back to the ancient Silla era. The Spring Festival in South Korea is also on the first day of the first lunar month, and the Koreans call it "the old one," which is traditionally called New Year's Day, the first day of the Yuan Dynasty and the first year of the year. It is similar to the Spring Festival in China. Every New Year's Eve, Koreans do everything possible to reunite with their families and share their family background. Early in the Spring Festival, "Tea Ceremony" is held. That is, the ceremony is held in the atrium or residence hall. Then the whole family to eat "dinner", the annual meal equivalent to our New Year's Eve thirty. After dinner, clean up the table, each happy New Year, a family sitting together to eat rice cakes soup, South Koreans think it even eat a year old. Then also "provincial tomb", that is, to the ancestral cemetery, put sacrifices for the memorial.
On the first afternoon, people went to each other to visit relatives and friends and give their friends and relatives a happy new year. Nowadays, more people celebrate New Year with New Year's cards and gifts. During the Spring Festival there are many folk activities, such as rolling the dice, flying a kite, spinning gyro, riding seesaw and so on. The custom of hanging "hedgehog" is still popular in some places, especially in rural areas.
3, North Korea Spring Festival
North Korea also had the custom of the Spring Festival, North Korea called the Spring Festival called New Year. Lunar New Year every year, North Koreans with new hopes and expectations bustling New Year, this is the year's largest folk festival. In order to Chinese New Year, people clean up the house outside the house, sewing new clothes, special meals.
The main holiday diet rice cakes, pancakes, rice noodles, sugar, dried persimmon, pine nuts, dried persimmon juice, honey glutinous rice soup, rice and other children. Essential to these festive diets is rice cake soup, which people say is one year older on a bowl.
Every new year on this day, no matter who should be each other's New Year. Early morning ancestors. After the ceremony of sacrificial ancestral worship, the whole family according to their seniority in turn New Year, and then, to the village elders and teachers New Year. On New Year's Eve, say good-bye to each other and say good luck. On this day, every family happily eat meals. People call the Lunar New Year dinner meal, Lunar New Year drink wine, called the wine.
Chinese New Year food is very rich, there are cake soup, glutinous rice cakes, steamed cakes, pancakes, candy, persimmon juice, honey glutinous soup, barbecue and so on. Among them, the cake soup is indispensable and the most representative. Chinese New Year drink this morning called "Tu Su wine" is brewed with a variety of herbs. Drinking "Tu Su wine" has become a habit of the Korean nation for the Chinese New Year.
New Year, even more joyful is that all men and women to participate in various games, there are pressure springboard, swing, skating, kick shuttlecock, and spinning top and so on. Gyro spinning in China is also very common. At present, there is no supply for the holidays in North Korea during the Spring Festival. Everyone feels their own home. While Kim Jong Il's birthday 2.16 and Kim Il Sung's birthday 4.15, not only holiday, but also every household free supply of wine, meat, food and so on.
4, Singapore Spring Festival
Singapore is a multi-ethnic and multicultural country with a great variety of ethnic festivals throughout the year. Important Chinese Spring Festival, Western Christmas, Malay Eid, Indian Thaipusam, Singapore National Day. Chinese in Singapore account for more than 75% of the total population, so the traditional Chinese Spring Festival is the most grand and most influential festival.
Every Chinese New Year, Singapore, Chinese families write couplets, affixed blessing words, the house booming outside; buy New Year, do New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve eat reunion dinner beaming; folk are also happy New Year, blessing, send red envelopes and lucky money, a Geely. Nanyang Chinese also use a unique way to celebrate the Chinese year, that is, a family gathered together "salmon students." "Raw fish" is a kind of dish, with raw fish as staple food, colored vegetables and fruit silk, white sesame, peanut, reconciled allspice, pepper, sauce and so on. At the beginning of the ceremony, the one man ordered the others to pick up the vegetables in the market together and shouted in unison: "To pick up, pick up (fishing hi) and catch the wind and water A year better than a year. " "Yusheng fish" with auspicious means, pray good luck in the coming year, can make fortune. An elegant fish, the value of more than a thousand dollars. I've tasted this kind of fish, which is both a dish and a meal, and has its own unique features. However, I did not find the locals interested and fascinated.
Spring Festival on the market colorful, crowded, a busy scene. In particular, Chinatown (Chinatown) is selling a large number of Chinese-style foods, Chinese national costumes and numerous mascots. Where percussion, dragon dance team, lion dance team enjoy the show. Only one day of the Spring Festival this year, where fireworks can be released fireworks, festive atmosphere is very rich.
"Spring to the riverside New Year" is the highlight of the Spring Festival every year, held at Marina Bay. There are various theatrical performances there during the Spring Festival, there are all kinds of grocery markets, snack snacks all over China, as well as welcome new lights show, and fireworks on both sides of the Singapore River fireworks. Spring Festival 2012 also exhibited more than 70 hand-crafted dragon-shaped lights, lanterns in Chengdu, Sichuan, Guangxi folk culture performances, as well as LED dragon team, are new highlights. The annual makeup parade was held in the downtown areas such as Orchard Road in previous years. This year it moved to the Singapore River for a parade of water, singing and dancing like the Yangzhou Ancient Canal Flower Boat show. I do not know which one is better.
The famous Singapore Sentosa Scenic Area, the Spring Festival will be the opening of flowers, 1 million flowers actually blooming, colorful, contests, beautiful, which can be tropical rain forest Nanyang Island Spring Festival show a major feature.
5, Malaysia Spring Festival
Malaysian Spring Festival customs and China is roughly the same, because most of the local Chinese from Fujian, Taiwanese culture by the impact of the Spring Festival, people must buy pineapple (pineapple), Hokkien "pineapple" and "Wang Lai" homonym, pineapple became the auspicious Spring Festival fruit. During the holidays, people greet each other with New Year's greetings. They like to bring some oranges and give them to the host. Orange and "Kyrgyzstan" homophonic symbolize good luck.
Set off firecrackers is the symbol of the Spring Festival. In the past two years, the Malaysian government announced the lifting of the fire ban on fireworks and gave the Chinese every year a big good news about the Lunar New Year. Thus, from the New Year's Eve to the New Year's Day, even to the Lantern Festival, fireworks everywhere, one after another. The children furiously argued that the firecrackers were the loudest and the ones who put the most beautiful fireworks on the fireworks. The childlike voices of the chatter were always overwhelmed by the sound of firecrackers.
6, the Spring Festival in Indonesia
Near the traditional festival Spring Festival, Indonesia is full of rich festive atmosphere. Shopping malls in the capital, Jakarta, are stocked with red lanterns and Chinese knots. Some shopping centers also have temporary stalls selling Chinese traditional dried meat and dried apples, red candles, red rice cakes, all kinds of red accessories, Word dizzying.
In the Chinatown area of Banjilan, the range of different types of firecrackers is complete. The mochi store shelves are filled with various types of rice cakes, chocolates, candied fruit, pistachios, melons, peanuts, hawthorn and plums in candy stores Everything is available, Red plum, kumquat and other Indonesian Chinese Spring Festival essential ornament sales are particularly good.
On New Year's Eve, people want to pray in the temple for incense and hope that they will be healthy and safe all the year round and all the best. On New Year's Eve, most Chinese people gather for reunion dinner in the elderly. Elders at home receive the new year's greetings from their children and grandchildren. Elderly people send red envelopes to their juniors. The children and grandchildren then take photos with the elders before they have a family dinner. Until late at night, younger men bid farewell to the elderly, each going home.
Another feature of Indonesian Chinese over the Spring Festival is the color of public interest. Various Chinese community organizations, clan associations, mutual aid associations and temple organizations donated blood and distributed food and other social welfare activities. I hope everyone can have a happy New Year.