How do you celebrate New Year's Eve in...?

In this article we answer the question "how do you celebrate New Year's Eve in..." and show you how it is celebrated in Brazil, Argentina, Russia and China.

New Year's Eve in Germany is mainly spent with pouring lead, pompous fireworks and delicious food. Many watch the classic movie "Dinner for One" until finally at midnight everyone can toast the new year with our full champagne glasses. However, in other countries, especially outside of Europe, New Year's Eve looks a little different. Read for yourself!

New Year's Eve in Brazil

In Brazil, candles are lit on the beaches on New Year's Eve. In addition to the classic white candles, which symbolize purity and peace, there are also yellow candles, which represent prosperity in the new year, and red candles, which are supposed to promise love and passion. It is most effective to wear underwear of the appropriate color (white, yellow or red) to enhance the corresponding good fortune. As mentioned earlier, white represents purity and peace. Therefore, Brazilians also like to wear white clothes on New Year's Eve, in which they jump over waves in the sea water on New Year's Eve. For each wave jumped over, the person may make a wish for the new year.

How do you celebrate New Year's Eve in Argentina?

In Argentina, at noon on December 31, it rains scraps of paper. People shred papers, certificates and other documents they no longer need and throw them out of the window. This way, they get rid of their old burdens from the past year and make room for something new. They also burn huge papier-mâché figures. There are real competitions between the districts of Buenos Aires for the biggest and most impressive figures.

New Year's Eve in Russia

Since there are eleven different time zones in Russia, toasts are also held at different times depending on the region. Since Russians mainly live by the Julian calendar, New Year's Eve, like Christmas, takes place on January 13. While lead pouring is a typical New Year's Eve tradition here, Russians use melted wax to prophesy the future in the New Year. Just before midnight, people also write their greatest wish on a piece of paper and set it on fire. They put the ashes in a champagne glass. Those who drink it up by the stroke of midnight can look forward to their wish coming true.

How do you celebrate New Year's Eve in China?

The Chinese spend the Western New Year quietly with their loved ones. Instead, they celebrate Chinese New Year about a month later according to the traditional lunar calendar. It is the most important family festival in China. As a result, many millions of Chinese travel to their home villages and regularly cause traffic chaos. At the family meal there are small dumplings in the shape of old Chinese coins. These are supposed to promise wealth.

Preparations for the feast are also important. The house is thoroughly cleaned with bamboo branches. In this way, one wants to drive away evil spirits. The color red plays another important role. According to legend, the predatory, man-eating monster Nyan sneaks into houses unnoticed and wreaks havoc there. However, since it reacts sensitively to the color red, the Chinese drive the monster away on New Year's Eve with this color and loud noise.

New Year's Eve in Africa

Huge New Year's Eve celebrations are rather rare in Africa - except in South Africa. On January 1 and 2, the capital Cape Town celebrates a colorful carnival with outlandish costumes, faces painted white, loud music and booming drums. The holiday has its origins in "Emancipation Day". On this day in the 1830s, the slaves in South Africa were freed.

Where and how you celebrate the year, TripLegend wishes you a happy new year and hopes you have a travel-intensive 2021, hopefully we'll see you at one of our Travel.