As long as you are a Chinese, you know that the most valued festival throughout the year is the Spring Festival. So the Spring Festival is not unique to China?
If you are already a worker, then the Spring Festival holiday will be even more fragrant.
I had to visit relatives and friends, but I was happy to be able to get together with my family. For thousands of years, China has inherited various customs for the Spring Festival.
People in the northern region are used to eating dumplings, and southerners like to eat rice cakes.
The Chinese New Year's Eve will also paste couplets, sticky blessing characters, and eat reunion dinners. Everyone had a happy, happy smile on their faces.
Although in recent years, people feel that the domestic New Year's flavor is not as heavy as when they were children, but the influence of the Spring Festival is getting bigger and bigger.
In fact, the Spring Festival is not unique to China. There are six other countries in the world that also celebrate the Spring Festival, do you know which ones?
Do they have the same customs as us during the holidays?
Although East Asian countries do not like each other, they still have some similarities in their living habits. The country's traditional festivals are also very important.
China has a long coastline and many neighboring countries.
But among these "neighbors" there are comrades, and there are also "sunspots". They also happened to be on the same peninsula. As you may have guessed, this is South Korea and North Korea.
South Korea also celebrates the Spring Festival, and in recent years, it has spared no effort in grabbing the Spring Festival.
If you know a little about the entertainment industry, you will know that the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are the scene of large-scale collapse every year.
A large number of foreign actors and idols made Chinese netizens very angry in the lunar new year. Lunar New Year refers to the Lunar New Year, and we often say that the translation of Spring Festival into English is Chinese New Year.
The use of "lunar new year" during the Chinese New Year is to be able to rub off on the popularity of the mighty Spring Festival, and over time, it can also blur the ** and belonging of the Spring Festival. South Korea is really calculating.
In fact, although the name is the same, the Spring Festival in South Korea is quite a bit of a tiger and not an anti-dog.
Because the Korean nation worships white,Therefore, the festive red color of the streets and alleys during the Chinese New Year has become white on the Korean Peninsula.
The red couplets turn into white couplets, and the red envelopes turn into white envelopes......This scene is simply not daring to look at it during the Chinese New Year, after all, it is not very auspicious.
They also wear hanbok during the Chinese New Year to get together with their families and share blessings with each other. They will also do some annual activities together, such as sacrificing ancestors and preparing sacrificial food.
Over the years, South Korea has not developed its own customs. For example, they will participate in the throwing event during the Spring Festival.
This is a more traditional game on the Korean Peninsula that is played on a board using special wooden boards.
Although on the same peninsula, belonging to the same people,But there is still a big difference between South Korea and North Korea.
South Korea is like an "e-person" in the Internet buzzword, extra-outgoing and eager to get the attention of others. This is even more the case in South Korea under the governance of Yoon Suk-yeol, which has been frequently exposed to fierce information, and has changed from an e-person to a conspicuous bag.
But North Korea is more like an I-person, very closed and mysterious, and it is basically invisible in ordinary times. Even on the Internet, it is difficult to see statements from North Korean IPs.
Often as soon as it is noticed by the people of the world, it is a major event, such as the development of nuclear **...
North Korea's Spring Festival is very similar to South Korea's. During the Lunar New Year, North Korea has a three-day holiday, when people decorate their houses and streets and eat traditional delicacies such as beaten cakes, rice cake soup, eight-treasure rice and rice wine.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, people will also go out to visit relatives and pay New Year's greetings. I will also participate in cultural and artistic activities organized by the people and celebrate festivals.
If you don't go to pay New Year's greetings, your family can also go outdoors to fly kites, play springboards, or smoke spinning tops, kick shuttlecocks, and play ice cars.
Our domestic Koreans will also have traditional celebrations during the Spring Festival, and those who want to feel the unique ethnic atmosphere can go to Yanbian to have a fun.
In addition to the two less worry-free neighboring countries for the Spring Festival, Singapore and Canada, which are across the ocean from China, will also celebrate the Spring Festival. Let's take a look at what Chinese New Year looks like in Singapore.
Singapore is one of the "Asian Tigers" and is a developed countryIt is also a world-famous emigrant.
Because there are many foreigners living in Singapore, Singapore is very culturally diverse.
There are a large number of Chinese living in Singapore, and they will also go out of their homes to buy Chinese New Year goods when the Chinese New Year is approaching. The most popular Chinese New Year item among Singaporean Chinese is citrus.
When going out to pay New Year's greetings, Singaporeans often bring a delicate and beautiful little paper bag with two citrus fruits in it. People who receive this gift tend to be happy.
Because among the Chinese in SingaporeCitrus has the meaning of "good luck" and represents people's best wishes for relatives and friends.
Citrus also has the meaning of **, two citrus are two **, wishing relatives and friends a fortune in the coming year.
As for why you don't send one, three, you have to send two? In fact, this also has the meaning of "good things come in pairs". This shows that Chinese culture is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
When people come to visit the New Year, they will also prepare red envelopes, but there will be some changes in color.
Singapore has a different auspicious color every yearTherefore, the color of the red envelope will also change, but it is basically a more gorgeous and bright color.
In Singapore, there is no such thing as giving white envelopes in South Korea.
I have to say that this is a very gratifying move, and the image of the Singaporean Chinese has suddenly become even bigger.
After talking about Singapore, let's talk about Canada's Chinese New Year customs. Canada is also a country with a large number of Chinese. According to statistics, the number of overseas Chinese in Canada ranks sixth.
In order to better celebrate the Spring Festival, people will hold some literary and artistic activities, and the local ** and the masses will participate. The Chinese community takes the Chinese New Year more seriously, so they will hold parties.
It can not only show the charm of traditional Chinese culture, but also alleviate the homesickness of Chinese people. People say that people tend to be more patriotic when they go abroad, probably so.
In addition, because the catering industry in Canada is quite developedThis means that there are a large number of Chinese restaurants in the local area with good quality.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese people will walk into Chinese restaurants and eat a Chinese meal. This is also their Chinese New Year's Eve dinner.
But even for Chinese New Year's Eve, Chinese people have become more and more customary. For example, when Chinese Canadians eat in restaurants, they basically have a low tone and talk less.
Quiet is greater than lively.
On the other hand, if there is alcohol at the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner in China, they will choose to drink to the fullest. Usually drink more. Chinese Canadians, on the other hand, will drink less and will not get drunk at all.
In addition to the above four countries also celebrate the Spring Festival, there are two other countries that also celebrate the Spring Festival.
One of them is nicknamed "Malaysia", yes, Malaysia. The other country is Suriname, known as the "Land of Forests".
Malaysia has more Chinese than Canada, ranking third.
In Malaysia, Chinese New Year is also a statutory holiday, so Chinese people also have time to enjoy the festival on this day.
Malaysia's Spring Festival is a bit authentic, for example, Malaysia will also have "Spring Festival".
There will be a wave of Chinese returning to their hometowns before the Chinese New Year. People usually go home by public transport to gather with their families and celebrate the Spring Festival.
At this time, the station is often crowded, and the flavor of the New Year comes up all of a sudden.
It is worth mentioning that 20% of the Chinese living in Malaysia are Catholics or **Catholics. They are also going to celebrate the Spring Festival.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the doors of the church are opened to the Chinese so that they can come to Mass. Dragons and lion dancers will also be allowed to enter the church, symbolizing the prosperity and prosperity of the congregants in the coming year.
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there is a special event in MalaysiaIt's a bit like a large-scale marriage urging and prayer event.
Unmarried men and women will throw things at each other in this **. This is not a fight. Men would throw apples at women, and women would throw citrus to men.
Why are you throwing it around like this, you come and go? This is actually a wish-making ceremony in the hope of getting the right person in the coming year.
Maybe the two of them just looked at each other by throwing and throwing it. From this point of view, this is still a useful method.
Ten percent of Suriname's population in the "forest country" is Chinese.
In 2014, Chinese New Year became an official holiday in SurinameIt can be said that it is the first country in South America to make the Spring Festival a legal holiday.
Chinese living in Suriname will organize dragon and lion dance teams to take to the streets on the day of the Spring Festival, and will also set off firecrackers to celebrate the Spring Festival, hoping that the coming year will be better.
Relations between China and Suriname are quite good. In 2021,The signing of the visa-free agreement between Suriname and China has enhanced the exchanges and interaction between the people of the two countries.
The Spring Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, and it is also the most important festival in China throughout the year. Since ancient times, the Spring Festival has even become a genetic symbol in people's bones and blood.
Regardless of whether the Chinese children are living in **, the Spring Festival has become an important way for people to trace their roots. The customs of the Spring Festival have also become a symbol of the flavor of the New Year.
Over the years, China's development has been getting better and better, the influence of the Spring Festival has become greater and greater, and more and more countries have celebrated the Spring Festival.
This is a good thing, Chinese culture is so good, it should be promoted to the people of the world.
Or some people are used to petty theft, and the history of their own country is as short as a short story, but they spare no effort to take other people's good things as their own, how can there be such a reason?
In order to better spread Chinese culture, our generation should also work hard to let the world see the dazzling Chinese red of the East!
This year's Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast live globally, and I hope there will be more opportunities to let my country's traditional culture go to the world!