Which countries in the world celebrate the Chinese New Year?

Many Asian countries also celebrate the Chinese New Year, and there are three countries in history that have been most influenced by China: Japan, North Korea (South Korea), Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and even some countries used Chinese as their official language at that time, and did not create their own languages until later, so they also celebrated the Chinese New Year.

At present, the Spring Festival is made an official holiday in China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), South Korea, Vietnam and Singapore.

In particular, South Korea still adheres to traditional festivals despite the fact that China does not pay attention to some traditional Chinese customs. The Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival are still important traditional festivals in South Korea. Last year, there was a big debate between China and South Korea over South Korea's declaration of the Dragon Boat Festival as a World Heritage Site.

Regardless of the outcome, it is enough to see that Korea's respect and love for traditional culture are very important.

Before the Meiji Restoration, Japan also celebrated the Spring Festival according to the yellow calendar (lunar calendar), just like China and South Korea. After the Meiji Restoration, the Chinese yellow calendar (lunar calendar) was abolished and the Western calendar (solar calendar) was adopted. Therefore, the first month of the year is also celebrated according to the solar calendar, and the new year is the New Year's Day every year.

The day of the Spring Festival is called the "old New Year", which is not a legal holiday, there is no holiday, and there is no celebration.

Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, Brunei, Singapore.

Many Asian countries also celebrate the Chinese New Year.

These countries around China, such as North Korea, South Korea, Myanmar, and Southeast Asian countries, celebrate the Chinese New Year.

The countries that celebrate the New Year like China include (legal holidays and the main ethnic group celebrates the Spring Festival): Singapore, Mengchang, Gu, North Korea, Vietnam, South Korea; Countries that have made the Spring Festival a statutory holiday are: Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia; Among them, the main ethnic groups in Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar and other countries do not exceed the New Year (Spring Festival).

1. The origin of the Spring Festival.

In ancient times, people admired the nature of heaven and earth, and believed that there were many invisible gods and spirits in heaven and earth, protecting human beings in this heaven and earth, and when natural disasters occurred, they would perform rituals to ask for the help of the gods, regardless of whether the prayer was valid or not, they would return to the gods on a specific day, that is, to praise the gods through sacrifices, and at the same time pay tribute to their ancestors and relatives, hoping that they will get the blessings of the gods after they die, and gradually this day will form the Spring Festival.

2. Establishment of the date of the Spring Festival.

The ancients formed their own set of dry branch calendar according to the weather in the relationship with nature, with the change of dynasties, the month where the Spring Festival is located is also constantly changing, there are the original January, December, November, October, etc., until the Han Dynasty after January 1 for the Spring Festival is completely finalized, later in the Xinhai Revolution China quoted the solar calendar, in order to distinguish the difference between the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar and the first day of the first month of the solar calendar, the first day of the solar calendar was changed to New Year's Day, and then later Yuan Shikai implemented the policy of the Spring Festival holiday, In the past spring, other names such as the first year, the new year, the new day, the new year, and the New Year were all abolished, and the official certification was the Spring Festival.

3. Allusions to the legends of Spring Festival customs.

Legend has it that in ancient times, the people were happy and happy, and then there was a monster named "Nian" every year in the Spring Festival in the village to eat live people to snatch food, people were forced to hide around on this day, miserable, and then an old man came to the village, the village people warmly received him, when chatting with each other, the old man handed over the method of driving the year beast to the village people and left, talk about Xun with the method is that the year beast is most afraid of red, **sound, flame, people will paste the red couplet on the door, and make a lead** Flames and sound of fireworks, sure enough, as the old man said, the year beast has never invaded the village again, in order to commemorate this day, the custom of couplets and firecrackers has been handed down.

In most countries in the world, the New Year is celebrated on January 1 every year, the New Year in China, Japan, Vietnam and Southeast Asia is the first month of the first lunar month, the New Year in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iran is in March every year, the Cambodian New Year is from April 14 to 16 every year, and the Thai New Year is from May 13 to 15 every year

The Egyptian New Year is celebrated on June 22 every year, the Ethiopian New Year is celebrated on August 11 every year, the Burmese New Year is celebrated on the "Cross-Blossom Festival" in mid-October every year, the Indian New Year is celebrated from October 31 to November 4 every year, and the Philippine New Year is celebrated on December 30 every year.

New Year's customs in foreign countries

1. During the New Year, Japanese people usually visit temples and shrines to pray for a safe and auspicious year. The first visit to the shrine in the New Year is called "Hatsugi", which is very important to the Japanese, and only when it is performed does it mean the beginning of the year.

2. In the United Kingdom, the New Year is the New Year's Day of the Gregorian calendar, although this festival is not as grand as Christmas, but various celebrations will still be carried out in various places to show goodbye to the old and welcome the new. On the day before New Year's Day, every household has wine in a bottle and meat in the cupboard. The British believed that if there was no meat left, they would be poor in the coming year.

3. The French celebrate the New Year with wine, and people start drinking from New Year's Day until January 3. In the early morning of New Year's Day, the French will also go to the streets to see the direction of the wind: the south wind blows, the omen of the wind and rain are smooth, and the year will be safe and hot; The west wind blows, and it is a good year for fishing; When the east wind blows, the fruit will be highly productive; When the north wind blows, it is a poor harvest year.

At present, the countries that celebrate the Spring Festival include China, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia (it seems that it has been a legal holiday since last year), Malaysia, mainly Asian countries, and the rest are Chinese living in other countries to celebrate the Spring Festival by themselves.

In addition to China, there are many countries in the world that have the custom of Chinese New Year, mainly some Asian countries that are 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. In Vietnam, Tet is the most solemn festival and the longest legal holiday in the country.

Vietnam's festival customs are similar to those in China, starting on the 23rd day of the lunar month, and celebrating the New Year on the 30th Chinese New Year's Eve, setting off firecrackers and eating reunion dinners. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, we will pay New Year's greetings and catch up with the temple fair. Koreans have also retained the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, which is called "Sher", which means the first of the new year.

During the Chinese New Year, when people return to their hometowns from the cities, the busyness of the Spring Festival is somewhat similar to that of China. During the Spring Festival, the whole family gathers together to worship their ancestors, meditate at home to bless and pray for good luck. Singapore has a two-day holiday for Chinese New Year.

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 give to the host, orange and "auspicious" homonym, symbolizing good luck. Malaysia's Spring Festival customs are also roughly the same as China's, because the local Chinese are mostly from Fujian, influenced by the culture of southern Fujian, people must buy pineapples (pineapples) during the Spring Festival, Hokkien "pineapple" and "Wanglai" homonym, pineapple has become an auspicious fruit for the Spring Festival. In some countries in Europe and the United States, there are often activities to celebrate the Spring Festival, but most of them are limited to the Chinese people, and the Spring Festival rarely becomes a national holiday.

However, with the increasing influence of the Chinese, the Spring Festival has also received increasing attention in European and American countries. New York, the United States, has 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 has become an important tourist attraction in New York.

In Canada, the Spring Festival has increasingly become a major local festival, from Toronto to Vancouver, Chinese people have to hold large-scale parades during the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is also an important holiday in North Korea, which is separated from China. North Korea's New Year's customs have many similarities with China's, but they are also very distinctive.

As the New Year approaches, North Koreans clean their houses inside and out, put up animal New Year pictures in their homes, and wear traditional costumes. During the Chinese New Year, the whole family gathers to pay homage to their deceased ancestors, then kneels down to the elders in turn to pay their respectful respects, and then begins to visit the village elders, relatives and teachers to pay New Year's greetings to them. The worshiped elders will give the children dip in beans or New Year's money as a "gift price", and give the adults a simple snack as a gift.

Peers also congratulate each other on the New Year, which is called "De Tan".

North Koreans' New Year's meals are very rich. Unlike Chinese Chinese dumplings, the most important Chinese New Year food for North Koreans is rice cakes, and rice cake soup is regarded as an indispensable food. North Koreans call the first day of the Lunar New Year the "Rice Cake Soup Festival", and when they ask their children about their age, they also ask, "How many bowls of rice cake soup have you eaten?"

In addition to eating rice cakes, steamed cakes, slice cakes, etc., the Chinese New Year also eats barbecue, candy and various pancakes, and drinks persimmon juice, honey glutinous soup, shochu, etc. North Koreans say that "the New Year's wine is not lukewarm" because on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they must not drink lukewarm, and it is said that this is to prevent people from drinking too much.

After the whole family gathers for the New Year's meal, they also go outdoors to play New Year's games. New Year's games mainly include springboards, kites, ice cars, windmills, etc. There is a saying that women want to play springboarding:

Jumping the springboard on the first day of the new year, and the soles of the feet will not be pierced into the thorns for a year". The children fly kites, write their wishes on the kites, and fly the kites as high as possible.

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

The former vassal states of China: Korea, Ryukyu, Luzon, Sulu, Vietnam, Nanshou, Siam, Lanfang Republic, etc., are now Korea, South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Singapore, Mongolia and other neighboring countries of China.

In addition, it is a gathering place for Chinese in other countries.

Every country celebrates the New Year, but the customs and time are different.