There are many fun and amazing New Year traditions. Some of them can be used to diversify the celebration and entertain guests on New Year's Eve 2016!
New Year's Eve Traditions: Bells in Blankets and Getting Rid of Old Things
For example, in England, a house is decorated not only with spruce and pine branches, but also with mistletoe branches. Mistletoe is hung everywhere: on walls, doors and chandeliers. According to the old custom, you can kiss any person standing under the mistletoe. From England came the custom of giving greeting cards. The first such postcard appeared in London back in 1843. On New Year's Eve, shortly before midnight, bells begin to ring in England. But their ringing is quiet and muffled. The fact is that the bells are first wrapped in a thick blanket and only at exactly midnight the blanket is removed so that the bells welcomed the beginning of the year in full force.
In Italy, it is believed that if you throw out old things on New Year's Eve, then in the coming year you will definitely get new ones. Temperamental Italians are very fond of giving and receiving gifts. On the first day of the new year, you need to give them to everyone - friends, neighbors, passers-by.
New Year 2016: parade of dolls and hot peppers in a pie
In France, on New Year's Eve, any winemaker should clink glasses with a wine barrel, wish her a Happy New Year and drink to the new harvest. And the French clink glasses with empty glasses. According to custom, you need to make a wish, drink a glass of wine in one gulp and clink glasses with your neighbor at the table. If the neighbor's glass is also empty, the wish will certainly come true.
And in Bogota, on New Year's Eve, there is a parade of dolls - they are attached to the roofs of cars that solemnly drive through the old districts of the city. But in Ecuador, on New Year's Eve, dolls are burned. It is believed that bad thoughts and desires burn with them.
In Cuba, on New Year's Eve, all the containers in the house are filled with water and at exactly midnight water is poured out of the windows. It is believed that after that the coming year will be bright and clean.
In Germany, there is an old funny tradition: guests and family members stand on benches, armchairs, sofas, chairs and jump into the coming year at midnight.
In Romania, the hostess bakes various small items into a traditional New Year's cake: coins, rings, coals, animal figurines and peppers. The thing found in a piece of cake hints at what should be expected in the coming year.
New Year is celebrated in all countries of the world. This is perhaps the brightest and most anticipated holiday of the year. And it is customary to spend this day almost everywhere with relatives and friends.
