How many countries and how many countries have to celebrate the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival is the largest traditional festival in China, and it is also a traditional festival in some Asian countries, such as South Korea, South Korea is a country that abides by tradition, Koreans have always retained the custom of welcoming the New Year on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar. The country is closed, people are returning to their hometowns from the city, and the Spring Festival is as busy as in China. During the Spring Festival, the whole family gathers together to worship their ancestors, meditate at home to bless and pray for good luck.

Vietnam solemnly celebrates the Spring Festival, the Spring Festival has a national holiday, the festival customs are similar to the traditional Chinese New Year customs, the 23rd day of the lunar month begins to celebrate the New Year, the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve of the lunar month is celebrated, firecrackers are set off, and the reunion dinner must eat glutinous rice dumplings. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we will pay New Year's greetings and catch up with the temple fair.

Singapore Spring Festival is a national holiday, two days off, during the Spring Festival, the streets and alleys of Singapore are lit up, shopping malls are crowded with citizens who buy New Year's goods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year's paintings, flowers are sought-after New Year's goods. During the festival, people greet each other for the New Year, do not mention the valuable gifts, only bring two oranges, enter the door to hold the host, orange and "auspicious" homonym, symbolizing good luck.

The Spring Festival is also a legal holiday in Malaysia, the New Year's customs are roughly the same as in China, because the local Chinese are mostly from Fujian, influenced by the customs of southern Fujian, so the New Year must buy pineapples, Hokkien "pineapple" and "Wanglai" homonym, pineapple has become the auspicious fruit of the Spring Festival.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan adopted the traditional calendar, and the New Year was also on the first day of the first lunar month, and after the Meiji Restoration, the Gregorian New Year was changed. Now in the Okinawa region of Japan, the people still celebrate the Spring Festival. Chinese New Year is also celebrated in Chinese areas of Japan, such as Nankincho in Kobe, Kansai, where a grand Spring Festival celebration is held every year, attracting many tourists.

In Europe and the United States, the Chinese brought the Spring Festival here, and with the increase in the number of Chinese and the enhancement of economic and social forces, the Spring Festival has increasingly become a display day for Chinese cultural identity. Paris, France holds a costume parade every year during the Spring Festival. In 2003, New York City designated the Spring Festival as a public holiday for citizens, and specially arranged the time and place for Chinese people to set off firecrackers.

The Chinese New Year Parade is an important sightseeing event in New York City. The Canadian New Year has also become an increasingly important local festival, from Toronto to Vancouver, Chinese people have to hold large-scale parades during the Spring Festival.

At present, the countries that celebrate the Spring Festival are China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, and India.

At present, there are only 11 countries that officially celebrate the Spring Festival like our China, and of course there are some other countries that are also doing it, but that is only a local place, and it has not yet been widely popularized.

I believe that in the next few years, China's traditional festival - Spring Festival will be valued and implemented in the world!

Wouldn't it be nice to come over?

Countries that celebrate the Spring Festival abroad include Vietnam, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Singapore and Malaysia.

Neighboring countries have always been influenced by our culture. In South Korea, North Korea and Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is the most important holiday of the year. On the Korean Peninsula, the Lunar New Year is known as the "New Year's Day" 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 of Swift Feet, 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.

The customs of the Spring Festival

The Spring Festival of Chinese is also one of the largest traditional festivals in Korea, as a Korean daughter-in-law married in China, I have been studying and living in Beijing for several years, every time the Spring Festival comes, I will miss my hometown of South Korea, the scene of the Chinese New Year in Korea and the family there.

South Korea is a country that adheres to the tradition of brotherhood, and the Spring Festival is a festival based on ancestor worship and filial piety, and it is a day to worship ancestors and pray for family safety. Today, the Spring Festival has also been given a new meaning by modern people, that is, to allow people to temporarily free themselves from the tense rhythm of urban life, and to get a moment of tranquility and happiness, so that everywhere you go to Korea during the Spring Festival will be full of joy and auspicious atmosphere.

Singapore: Thousands of people buy rice cakes.

Chinese New Year is the biggest festival of the year in Singapore. In the New Year's market, all kinds of New Year's goods are dazzling and readily available. In the past, the traditional Chinese New Year customs, such as sacrificing stoves, welcoming the gods and eating New Year's dinners, have almost all been preserved among the Chinese in Singapore.

To this day, Singaporean Chinese still believe that rice cakes symbolize "rising every year" and oranges symbolize "good fortune", so they are a must-have for every family to celebrate the Spring Festival. Singapore also imports rice cakes, mandarin oranges and potted kumquat from places such as Guangdong and Hong Kong in China. During the Spring Festival, thousands of people come to the market every day to buy New Year's cakes and other New Year's goods.

Indonesia: It's finally legal to celebrate the New Year!

On January 18, 2001, Wahid, Indonesia, announced that the Spring Festival had become an official holiday for the Chinese community in Indonesia. This is another concrete step towards ethnic and religious equality in Indonesia after Wahid lifted the ban on Chinese New Year celebrations last year. As early as the 60s, the then Suharto regime promulgated various laws and regulations that discriminated against the Chinese, including not allowing the Chinese to celebrate their own festivals.

In October 1999, after the birth of Indonesia's new **, it was determined to implement a policy of equality for all races and religions. On January 17, 2000, Wahid signed the ** decision to repeal the ban on the public celebration of the festival by the Chinese, so that the Chinese in Indonesia could legally celebrate the Spring Festival for the first time in more than 30 years.

Malaysia: Mahathir Mohamad delivered a speech.

The year 2001 is the year of economic recovery in Malaysia, and the Chinese in Malaysia are waiting for the Spring Festival with a happy mood.

Traditionally, many shopping malls in Kuala Lumpur will arrange a variety of dragon and lion dance performances, as well as singers singing during the Spring Festival from Chinese New Year's Eve to the Lantern Festival. Chinese political parties and organizations will conduct Chinese New Year group worship, and Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad will also deliver a Spring Festival speech and participate in group worship activities to share the joy of the Spring Festival with the Chinese.

Vietnam Greeting Rebellion: The Zodiac Rabbit Becomes a Cat.

Like China, Tet is the most important traditional festival in Vietnam. On Chinese New Year's Eve, dragon dances, lion dances and song and dance performances will be held on an unprecedented scale across Vietnam. It is worth mentioning that although Vietnam also has 12 zodiac signs, the only one among them is that there is no rabbit, and the rabbit is replaced by a cat.

Why is there no rabbit but a cat among the zodiac animals in Vietnam? There is a saying that the twelve earthly branches "Mao" and "cat" have the same sound, and when it was transmitted to Vietnam, "Mao Nian" was misheard as "Cat Year"; Some people also say that Vietnamese people don't like rabbits but like cats, and think that since there are rats in the zodiac, there should also be cats, and cats can overcome rats. Perhaps, this is a reflection of the Vietnamese people's concept of "ecological balance".

1. There are 13 countries in the world that celebrate the Chinese lunar year. February 5, 2019 in the Gregorian calendar is the lunar year of this year.

2. In addition to China, the 12 countries in Asia are: Mongolia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, North Korea, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Brunei and Bhutan.

3. The New Year's customs are mainly based on removing the old cloth and the new, welcoming the jubilee blessings, worshiping the gods and ancestors, and praying for a good year. The ancients had two most primitive beliefs: one was the belief in heaven and earth, and the other was the belief in ancestors.

The ancients believed that the gods were the masters of all things, and believed that the gods of heaven and earth and the gods of ancestors controlled people's lives and destinies. The ancients attached great importance to faith and sacrifice, and set the beginning of spring calculated in the zodiac as the first day of the year, and held the Chain Sock Rock Festival to pray for the year on the auspicious day of the first zodiac of the year, in order to express worship, respect and reverence for the gods, and pray for a good harvest. Later, due to changes in the calendar, the new year usually refers to the first month of the lunar calendar.