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Japanese New Year is the biggest festival in Japan. Every house is decorated with pine and cypress, and at the door are hung bamboo sticks, which symbolize longevity, and ferns, which signify success. December 31 is the "Great Day", that is, Chinese New Year's Eve.

The whole family gathers around the stove to "watch the New Year", sits quietly and listens to the "New Year's Bell" at 108 o'clock, and prays to the gods to send away the troubles of the old year and usher in a beautiful new year. The numbers "100" and "8" represent happiness in Japan. On the first day of New Year's Day, the whole family sits around and tells each other about the dreams they had on Chinese New Year's Eve to measure the bad luck.

On this day, the breakfast was very rich, and I ate sugar and soba noodles, and drank Tusu sake. After that, he was a vegetarian for three days in a row, praying with a sincere heart for good luck in the coming year. The food eaten during the New Year's festival is very particular, among which the slender macaroni represents longevity, the rice confectionery means abundance, the carp is a powerful symbol, and the pea contains the meaning of health.

In recent years, there has been a popular item called "Fukubukuro" in the Japanese market during the New Year. This is an opaque bag containing goods, and there are many kinds of things inside, including cosmetics, clothing, household items, electrical appliances, ....... Prices range from as little as 1,000 yen to as expensive as 10,000 yen.

Why is "Fukubukuro" so popular? It turns out that it is very value-for-money, and there are often three or four items priced at about 1,000 yuan in a "lucky bag" priced at 1,000 yuan. Sometimes, if you're lucky, you might be able to carry a digital camera worth 30,000 yen or 40,000 yen in a 20,000 yen "lucky bag."

Spring Festival is the most important, grand and distinctive traditional festival in China, and the Chinese have celebrated the Spring Festival for more than 4,000 years.

In addition to the "Chinatowns" in overseas countries that celebrate the Spring Festival every year, according to incomplete statistics, about 9 countries in Asia have designated the Lunar New Year as a legal holiday.

Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam and other countries that belong to the Han cultural circle all regard the Spring Festival as a legal holiday.

On the Korean Peninsula, the Lunar New Year is known as the Nian Festival or "Old Positive", and the first to third days of the first lunar month are official holidays for the whole nation.

Vietnam's Lunar New Year holiday lasts from Chinese New Year's Eve to the third day of the first lunar month, plus Saturdays and Sundays, a total of 6 days.

Some countries in Southeast Asia, where the Chinese population is concentrated, also make the Lunar New Year an official holiday.

In Singapore, the first day of the first lunar month to the third day of the Lunar New Year is a public holiday. Malaysian Chinese, who make up a quarter of the total population, have designated the first and second days of the first lunar month as official holidays.

Indonesia and the Philippines, which have large Chinese populations, designated the Lunar New Year as a national public holiday in 2003 and 2004, respectively, but the Philippines does not have a holiday.

In Japan, the New Year was celebrated according to the old calendar (similar to the lunar calendar). After the switch to the new calendar in 1873, most of Japan did not use the old New Year, but the Amami Islands in Okinawa Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture still have complete old calendar customs.

Apart from China, which other countries also celebrate the Spring Festival?

In addition to China, there are many countries in the world that have the custom of the Spring Festival, mainly some Southeast Asian countries influenced by Chinese culture, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. In these countries, the Chinese New Year is listed as a statutory holiday.

At present, the countries that celebrate the Spring Festival include China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, mainly Asian countries celebrate the Spring Festival, and the rest is the Chinese living in other countries to celebrate the Spring Festival by themselves.

Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Philippines, South Korea.

Japan, South Korea and other East Asian countries.