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From one person - just you - to one person, ie your friend.Ģ. There, it is offered to the monks who symbolically pass the food to the ancestors. Many are the activities organised during New Year's, especially traditional games, as Sopharany Hay, from the SBS Khmer program told me.Now, if you want to say " Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year" in Italian, it is still easy to do, but first you need to know how many people are sending the good wishes and to how many: I'll explain!ġ. People wake up very early to get the food ready and bring it to the temples. In Khmer, New Year's day is known as 'Sangran.' CambodiaĬambodian people celebrate their New Year together with Thailand, Burma and Sri Lanka - in April. Minutes before midnight, all the lights in the house would be switched off and the family would wait by candlelight till the last striking of the clock to blow out the candle. Manal Al-Ani from SBS Arabic24remembers that she and her family used to bake a cake and place a long candle in the middle. Koreans call New Year's Day 'Seollal' and it is celebrated the first day of the lunar calendar. "Our tradition was to stay up all night on New Year's Eve because ancestors used to warn the kids that their eyebrows would turn white if they fell asleep," Yang explains.
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Moving eastwards, Yang Joong Joo, of SBS Korean, shared a very interesting story:
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Whoever gets the trinket will be lucky for the rest of the year. The cake is then divided up so that every family member and their guests receive a slice, with the recipients lining up from oldest to youngest. Greeks traditionally view the beginning of the New Year as a fortunate and successful time, which they like to spend playing cards and eating “ vasilopita," a sweet, bread-like cake that is only made for New Year’s Eve.Ī trinket is inserted into the dough prior to baking it. "Saint Basil the Great gave away all his belongings to the poor and that’s why Greeks believe he is the Greek Santa Claus," explains Panos. Panos Apostolou, from SBS Greek, told me Greeks celebrate on the 1st of January one of the most beloved saints of the Greek Orthodox Church, Saint Basil the Great.
HAPPY NEW YEAR IN ITALIAN HOW TO
Thanks to the help of many colleagues from other language groups of SBS Radio, we collected some suggestions on how to celebrate the arrival of 2018 in the most unexpected ways and during different times of the year. Other new year traditions are celebrated in different ways and at different times around the globe. In multicultural Australia, new year is celebrated at many different times and in many different ways by different cultures.Īs we at SBS Italian know, New Years traditions can vary wildly just from region to region just in our homeland.Įating lentils at midnight throwing old pottery out of the window and wearing red underwear: these are just some of most popular (and unusual) New Year traditions to be found across Italy.Įvery district - and most of the times, every little town - has its own specific way to welcome the new year and gain a rich, prosperous and happy beginning - and it's normally marked on the 1st January, following the tradition of the Gregorian calendar. It marks the turn of the Lunar calendar in China, Vietnam and Korea, the date of which is dictated by the moon. Each year is marked by one of the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac and 2018 marks the year of the dog. Every year, Lunar New Year is celebrated by millions across the globe, and is the largest multicultural celebration in Australia.