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How to celebrate the New Year in different countries

Italy

• In this country it can be dangerous to have a walk at night at the end

of December.

• People usually throw the old things from the house through the window: broken cups and plates, old clothes and boots and sometimes

different pieces of furniture.

• People believe that on the New Year's Eve the magician Befaniya comes to the houses through the chimney and put

the presents for children in their stockings or shoes.

Scotland

• People call the New Year's Eve "Hogmanay". When clock beat 12, people open a back door of the house to let out Old year, and with the last blow of clock they open a forward door, letting in New year.

• On custom for a New Year's Eve they set fire to barrels with tar and roll them on streets, burning, thus, Old year and inviting New.

France

For the holiday, a New Year's pie is baked, inside which there is a bean seed. The one who gets a bean gets the title of "bean king" and on a festive night everyone obeys his orders.

• Tradition: burning a Christmas log . 

• On the first night of the year, it is customary to leave the house, wish passers-by happiness, dress up in funny costumes.

England

• It was in this country the custom to exchange greeting cards for the New year.

The coming of the New Year is announced by a bell.

Japan

In this country housewives start cooking special food for New Year's Day and all the members of the family do a big cleaning up. The idea is to get rid of the dirt of the past year, and welcome the new year without it.

On the television or radio you can hear 108 bells. The 108 th bell rings just a second before the midnight. The people say: "Happy New

Year!"

• People eat the special food and drink rice wine during the meal.

In Japan, the New year is celebrated exclusively in the family circle, and they also believe that in the first seconds of the New year you need to laugh - it brings good luck.

Holland

Father Frost comes to this country by the ship. Joyful children meet him on pier. Father Frost loves cheerful draws and surprises and often gives to children marzipan fruit, toys, candy flowers.

A Tulip, or even better, an onion of a rare type of Tulip is the most traditional gift for the New year.

Sweden

A country where old dishes are broken on new year's eve.

Before New year elect the queen of light Lyuchiya.

She is dressed up in a white dress, put on a crown with the lit candles on her head . Lyuchiya brings gifts to children and delicacies to pets: to a cat - cream, to a dog - a sugar stone, to a donkey- carrots.

USA

• In this city a lot of people gather in Times Square and watch the
• "Big Apple" fall. The "Big Fall" isn't a real apple. It's a moving picture
• of an apple on the side of one of the big buildings in Times Square.
• Every New Year's Eve during the last few seconds before midnight it
• starts to "fall" down the building, and when it gets to the bottom it's the start of the new year.