TO BRING IN THE NEW YEAR!
Twelve grape: It calls for eating twelve grapes as soon as the clock turns twelve. Each grape represents the twelve months of the New Year. With each grape, one can make a wish. Aiming to finish eating all of them within the first minute of the New Year.
Underwear: It calls for wearing yellow
underwear at the moment when New Year
arrives. It is believed, doing so brings wealth and prosperity in the coming
year. One wishing for double prosperity would reverse the undies and then wear
them.
Twelve Shafts of
Wheat: placing twelve shafts of wheat on the dinner table, as doing so ensures
abundance of food to eat in the coming year.
Suitcase: running
hard and fast around the house with a suitcase in hand, as doing so ensures
travelling in the coming year.
The Right Foot
First: With clock turning twelve, the first step should be made with the right
foot only, as doing so ensures positivity and right decisions in the coming
year.
Money Proximity:
keeping some amount of money in form of hard cash, either in pocket or hand at
the time when clock turns twelve. This is believed to ensure financial security
and stability in the coming year.
Clean
Surroundings: Absolute cleaning of households and surroundings on a day prior
to New Year. This is to ensure incoming of positive energy in house and
familiy.
Lentils Luck:
Eating lentils along with rice on New Year's Eve ensures a year of abundance.
Burn Ano Nuevo:
Bonfire and Fireworks, sending off the previous year and welcoming the new at
the point of clock ringing twelve, it is burnt. People write their faults, or
any feared bad luck on a piece of paper and throw it in the burn fire.
According to beliefs, doing so ensures liberty from all past troubles, mistakes
and sins, in addition bad luck.
Other tradictions
include baking up a special New Year bread, it will have a coin places inside
it. At midnight, the head of the family cuts the bread, and distributes it to
the family members. The family member that gets the coin is considered to hold
good luck for the entire coming year. Another tradition is to place a jewerly
piece in champagne glass, the toast is done at the arrival of New Year. This is
done to ensure wealth and prosperity in the coming year.
In Costa Rica,
homemakers will sweep out the entire house on Decembar 31st to remove the
previous year's evils and get a fresh start to the New Year.
Throwing a pan
full of water over one's shoulder, is believed to sway away all the bad luck of
the past year, therefore good luck in the coming year.
Wearing red under
garment on New Year with a hope that the coming year will make them meet their
spouse or true love; and wearing yellow with a hopes of having good luck in the
coming year.
Washing a bucket
of water out the front door to symbolize getting rid of all the bad luck from
the past year.
Placing mone yin the
mailbox for prosperity.
Raise your glass
a toast with love and respect Wishing all travel, good health, prosperity and
love in the New Year.
Wishing you 100 more Happy New Years!
New Year's Day is January 1. and is the most widely celebrated holiday on Earth, since most people participate, regardless of religious beliefs. The festivities center around New Year's Eve with abundant fireworks. New Year's greetings are said in a large number of languages and dialects. For example, greetings in the two official languages of Afghanistan include „Sad Saal be in Saal-ha!“ (Farsi, „Wishing you 100 more Happy New Years!“) and „Nawai Kall Mo Mubarak Shah!“ (Pashto, „Happy New Year!“).
„Antum Salimoun!“ (Arabic) or „Asgwas Amegas!“ (Berber).
„Erjanik Navasard!“ (Armenia).
„Sretna Nova Godina!“ or „Neka ti bude hairli i berićetna Nova godina!“ (Bosnia and Herzegovina). The Bosniaks also observe the Islamic New Year on the first day of Muharram.
„Prosit Neujahr!“ or „Ein gutes neues Jahr!“ (German).
„Yeni Iliniz Mubarek!“ (Azeri).
„Shubho Nabo Barsho!“ (Bangladesh).
„Z Novyum Hodam!“ (Belarusian).
„S Novim Godom!“ (Russian).
„Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!“ (Dutch).
„Bonne Annee!“ (French).
„Felice Anno Nuovo!“ (Italian).
"Feliz Año Nuevo!" (Spanish).
"Feliz Ano Novo!" (Portugal)., etc.
