Happy New Year

We wish you all good health, family happiness and success in the New Year of 2020.

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New Year customs around the world

Argentina

Wear brand-new pink underwear to attract love.

At exactly 12:00, step forward with your right foot to start the year off with…YOUR RIGHT FOOT!

Australia

Walk through the streets banging loudly on pots and pans at midnight.

Brazil

Wear white to scare away bad spirits.

Jump 7 waves for good luck. One for each day of the week.

Give some gifts to Goddess Iemanja. She is the goddess of water, and she loves gifts, especially flowers. So throw some into the ocean — if they come back, it means she didn’t accept them. Don’t worry, you can try again next New Year’s Eve.

Britain

Watch Jools Holland’s Hootenanny, even though it’s awful and everyone hates it.

Chile

Eat a spoonful of lentils at midnight for a year filled with work and money.  

Sweep your house inside out to remove bad energy。

Colombia

Walk around your block with an empty suitcase for a year full of travel!

Ecuador

Make a doll (more like an effigy) to burn to signify the burning away of the old year and the welcoming of the new one

El Salvador

Crack an egg in a glass at midnight and leave it on the window sill over night. What ever figure it has made in the morning, that’s what your fortune will bring next year.

Finland

You tell your fortune by throwing melted metal into cold water。

Guatemala

At 12 am on New Years day you grab 12 pennies and then go outside your house and you throw the pennies behind you while you face the opposite of the street。

Netherlands

Eat Oliebollen, which are like big oily balls of dough, deep fat fried and covered in icing sugar。

Philippines

Turn on all the lights in the house on NYE to ward off evil spirits。

Open all the doors, cabinets and windows and then run around shutting them after it hit midnight。

Puerto Rico

Fill pots and pans with water and throw the water out the front door once the clock strikes midnight。

Russia

Write down a wish on a piece of paper, burn it, throw it into a champagne glass, and drink it before 12:01.

Scotland

Immediately after the bells, the first-footing begins, which means being the first person across a friend’s or neighbor’s threshold。

The first-foot usually brings several gifts, including perhaps a coin, bread, salt, coal, or a whisky, which respectively represent financial prosperity, food, flavor, warmth, and good cheer。

Spain

You must eat a grape with each bell strike at midnight for prosperity

Turkey

Get pomegranates and throw them from our balcony to the street below。

Venezuela

Wear yellow underwear for “good luck”.