How Estonians make it to midnight on New Year’s Eve awake is a mystery. They should be in a food coma! Tradition dictates that the holiday should be celebrated with a lucky number of meals, with either seven, nine, or twelve trips to the table. However many meals you choose, you’re...
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, the tradition of carrying out rituals on the first day of the Chinese calendar year began. “This holiday has ancient roots in China as an agricultural society. It was the occasion to celebrate the harvest and worship the gods and ask for good harvests in times to come," explains Yong...
USA – Louisiana: The New Year’s food tradition I grew up with is eating Cajun-style black-eyed peas and cabbage, with the promise that it will deliver health and wealth over the next 12 months. Even after 12 years of living and working abroad, I’ve never stopped celebrating the New...
Chinese people have by long tradition set off firecrackers, originally to scare away the legendary monster Nian which emerges at midnight. In recent years, many urban areas have a firecracker ban or set special area or period for fireworks, to prevent accidents and threats to air quality. Half...
I make a simple love and food to eat, eat rice "Hua", "hua". Brother, he ate all the rice. Half an hour passed, that is, now six, and my brother and my stomach all burst! This year's dinner is really delicious. 除夕之夜,大家都去哥哥家吃年夜饭。 我和我哥哥坐在一起。幼小的...
Commonly, new year tradition is limited to traditional food, music and new year clothing trends. Giving and receiving gifts is also a common tradition followed by all ages. There is always some reason behind everything and this means that there is some tradition and customs behind every festival...
Eastern Diet vs Western Diet // Food from the East, or food from the West? There are so many amazing dishes. Here's the ultimate East… Life after China 🇨🇳 Moving to a Small Norwegian Town after Five Years in Shanghai Life after China - I lived in Shanghai for over five y...
Over thousands of years, people celebrating Lunar New Year developed many practices that help start the year fresh, usher in good luck and ward off bad luck. Each country and every individual celebrates Lunar New Year a little bit differently with distinctive traditions, foods and festivities, but...
A major New Year’s food tradition in the American South, Hoppin’ John is a dish of pork-flavored field peas or black-eyed peas (symbolizing coins) and rice, frequently served with collards or other cooked greens (as they’re the color of money) and cornbread (the color of gold). T...