New year eve tradition in different countries

There are different tradition in countries's new year eve cause it has different meaning to people.

In Korea

"Say hay boke-mahn he pah du say oh" is the New Year's greeting in Korea. New Year's day is the greatest celebration of the year in Korea. Like, Chinese and Vietnamese, Korean New Year (Seol-Nal) is also celebrated at sunset on the day of the second new moon after the winter solstice. It is a Lunar New Year (harvest moon festival). Seol Nal is a three day celebration and almost all Koreans move to their hometowns to celebrate the occasion.

In Germany

With the New Year celebrations, people of Germany do not forget to follow all their customs and traditions. A very popular tradition of telling future called Bleigiessen is followed with great amount of excitement by the Germans. They would drop molten lead into cold water and predict future of people from whatever shape it created. If it took the shape of a heart or ring it meant wedding, shape of ship meant journey and a pig symbolized plenty of food in the coming year. Another tradition of leaving a bit of every food on new Year's Eve until after midnight ensured surplus food year ahead.

In France

French love to dine with their loved ones on the New Year's day. They celebrate each and every moment with high festive spirit and mood. Alongwith partying hard, French love the tradition of gift-giving and follow it seriousness. They consider it more auspicious to present gifts on New Year than any other festival. They greet each other with New Year cards, cakes and other auspicious goodies. French Cruises
French Cruises have become an ideal option for a gala New Year. People book these cruises a month before the festival. Now-a-days, people have started preferring it more than any other New Year party idea.

In USA

New Year's Eve celebration is a gala affair for the people of US. They love to enjoy even the last minute of the going year and welcome the New Year with a blast. Midnight parties, sumptuous dinners, live music and the dance floors make a perfect New Year's Eve bash. Every year, a huge ball is organized at Time Square in the New York City. This New Year celebration is watched over by large number of Americans. A minute before the New Year's Day, a brightly lighted ball is dropped slowly from the top of a pole. As soon as the ball reaches the ground, it gives a signal of New Year and everybody hug and kiss each other wishing Happy New Year.

Elsewhere, many of New Year parties in US have a dress code or a theme. People cover their faces with masks. They unmask themselves only when the clock strikes 12. To have some merriment with the family members at the beginning of the New Year, people prefer to celebrate it at their homes. Many people watch television, eat the auspicious black-eyed peas and rice called Hoppin' Johns. There is also a tradition to open champagne bottles as the clock strikes midnight on the New Year's Eve.

In India

New Year's Eve in India is the time to party and dig into the last minute fun. People enjoy partying with friends and family members. All the night clubs, discotheques, amusement parks and even the cinema halls are thronged by people of all ages. The idea behind these get-togethers is to give farewell to the by-gone year and welcome the New Year bountifully.

People in New Year Eve's Parties are seen in colorful new dresses especially selected for the occasion. New Year Eve's party in India usually hold a festive theme. Be it a color code or a unique dress code - theme dressing heightens the spirit of the New Year Eve's mood.

Popular actors from Bollywood besides, professional dancers and singers take opportunity of New Year's Eve celebrations to cheer up people by their music and dance. People escalate these celebrations with good music, dance, sumptuous dinner and of course by lighting bonfires and burning crackers.

To avoid partying at over crowded places, many people whether in small or large groups organise their private parties. Whatever be the case people from all classes have fun and joy.

In China

On the night of New Year's Eve, Chinese families come together for a celebration dinner. This custom is also called "surrounding the hearth," from the custom in earlier times of eating dinner around the family hearth. Both children and adults eat together and dinner begins only after all of the family members are present at the table. A table setting is placed for those unable to come home for dinner on this day to symbolize their presence though far away. As the nuclear family becomes increasingly common in modern society, this symbol of unity takes on increasing significance. New Year's Eve dinner is best eaten slowly, savoring the flavor of each dish. Several of the dishes served have auspicious meaning and are indispensable to the night's menu: "Long Year Vegetable" (mustard greens) to represent long life ; "Whole Chicken," symbolizing wealth for the whole family (since "chicken" and "family" sound the same in the Taiwanese dialect ); a type of clam called han is eaten since it sounds like the Chinese word for "fat," deriving the sense of "becoming well-off"; and fish balls, shrimp balls, and meat balls are eaten to symbolize the three top scores earned during the civil service examination in ancient China and, by extension, success in educational pursuits. Althouth fish is on the New Year's Eve dinner table it cannot be eaten on New Year's Eve, since the Chinese words for "fish" and "surplus" sound the same and one wouldn't want to eat the next year's surplus.

Some families will also prepare chiao tzu, Chinese dumplings stuffed with meats and vegetables. Since the shape of the dumplings resembles a gold ingot, eating chiao tzu symbolizes the calling of wealth into one's life, and some people stuff real money in dumplings which will bring wealth to the lucky one who finds the coin.