NEW YEAR .......
NEW YEAR IN ECUADOR
ORIGIN
Burning the old year has ancient history
and occurs in many parts of the world, and it was in the Babylonian, Greek and
Roman cultures.
Rome, worshiped with Prometheus custom of
figures of men, birds and animals were burned to represent human vices.
TRADITIONS
In Ecuador parted the year ending getting older years are
puppets made from old clothes or stick with newspaper it represents everything
good and bad that happened to us during the year and burned at midnight and we
put firecrackers or explosives and burn quite rumble and that the best things
come next year and wrong fence.
The celebration of New Year is performed
in all cities of Ecuador, mainly with the tradition of burning the
old year or puppet, a fact that represents leaving behind the negative
experiences of the past year and welcoming a new one, with the hope it's better
than the last.
TRADITIONS AND FOOD
There are many more traditions like eating twelve grapes,
dress in a certain color, turn your home with a suitcase if you want to travel.
Finally, I believe that the burning of old is the most popular as tradition
says once you start doing your old man, you must do each year for seven
consecutive years, because if you stop doing bad luck come into your life, the
tradition of burning old also, the idea that by doing these burning all the bad
things that happened that year to the new year, hoping for better days.
Finished years old burn proceed to sit the whole family for
dinner or baked turkey baking Piglet and wine or champagne to toast the new
year. In this way it represents what the new year we will not miss the food in
abundance, but not all households Not so with good bread is happy while we are
in union with the family.
MUSIC NEW YEAR
NEW YEAR IN CHINA
In this festival, which has a history of almost four
thousand years, welcoming spring occurs. From that day, the farmers are
prepared for sowing and for Chinese represents the effective start of a new
year.
While in the West the year begins on January 1, in China the
'Nian' (year) starts near the end of January or early February, thus varying
based on the traditional calendar, known as 'Moon' or setting '
The Chinese lunar calendar incorporates the lunar cycle and
the position of the sun. According to legend, the calendar goes back to 2600
BC, when the Yellow Emperor, Shih Huang Di, began the first cycle of the
Chinese zodiac and appointed an animal to represent each year in the cycle of
12 years.
TRADITIONS
It is a period full of celebrations, the New Year's Day
begins and ends with the Lantern Festival, the fifteenth day of the first
month. Family visits, special meals and fireworks happen. Everyone celebrates,
especially during the first three days of the festival.
To
receive the "Spring Festival" people clean their homes with old
brooms, which is then thrown away. Hang red banners with poetic verses on their
doors, decorated with Chinese New Year paintings on the walls and red lanterns.
Fireworks and firecrackers are released, hoping to ward off bad luck and bring
prosperity. Children receive money from family and tradition close the
remaining tasks facing the new year, so it is important to pay debts.
FOOD
The first day of the beginning of the year is traditionally
not eat meat for a long, full life. It is a way to welcome the gods of heaven
and earth. That day is the big day Dragon Dance, highlight of the Spring
Festival is also known as this year again.The first day of the beginning of the
year is traditionally not eat meat for a long, full life. It is a way to
welcome the gods of heaven and earth. That day is the big day Dragon Dance,
highlight of the Spring Festival also known as the New Year.
All meals must be prepared Andes the new year as KNIVES SAVE
should be short but a new year.
Long noodles, for long life and not the courts!
Shrimp for Abundance
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