NEW YEAR

NEW YEAR

HOW CELEBRATES NEW YEAR IN ECUADOR?

It is held by burning a puppet doll made of old clothes
and filled with sawdust or newspaper.It symbolizes the old year or the year that is ending and they are burned at 00:00 am on 1 January.

TRADITIONS
-The viudas are men dressed as women and collected money for the burning of the old.

-The development of the will.

HOW CELEBRATES NEW YEAR IN OTHER COUNTRIES?

ALEMANIA

The Germans fired the old year providing in honor of San Silvestre, and receive the New Year with firecrackers and fireworks intended ward off evil spirits.

TRADITIONS

-Leave at home until after midnight, some remnants of what has been eaten, as a way of ensuring a well-stocked pantry for the next year.

ESPAÑA

For Spaniards, the hardest thing is to gobble twelve grapes to the rhythm of the twelve strokes indicating the arrival of the new year.

TRADITIONS

-Who complete eat 12 grapes without choking you will be lucky in the next twelve months.

THAILAND

In Thailand the new year is very different from other countries.

The Thai New Year called Songkran and lasts three days, from 13 to 15 April. People were throwing buckets of water at each other with the desire to attract heavy rains for the coming year. It is also used to wash all statues and images of Buddha.

TRADITIONS

-Is releasing birds from their cages or fish tanks their throwing them into the river.