The different custom about New
year
As
far as I am concerned, new year is the happiest holiday in the world. All people
will take a break during this time, people gathered together with their families,
they celebrated the new years and pray to have a new life in the next year. In different
countries, people celebrate the new year in different type. For example,
Chinese people always set off firecrackers to celebrate. For the United States,
people always go to the plaza or church. People all feel eudemonic in that day.
Now, I want to talk about some examples about the different custom about New
year in different counties.
Firstly,
I want to talk about the United Kingdom. There are three interesting customs
that I want to mention. On the one hand, most of the people in the United Kingdom
choose to eat the meat and drink the wine in that day when the family gathered.
Also, this is a traditional, because the people in the United Kingdom think if
the people do that, that means they have the good living conditions or have
enough food to live in the next year. Drinking wine or eating meat is representing
to have a good year. On the other hand, the people in the United Kingdom are scrambling
to fetch a pair of water, because there is saying in there, the first people
who get the water can get happiness in the next whole year. As far as I am concerned,
it is so interesting. The last point I want to mention in the United Kingdom is
that the people always do not knock the door, and just go into the relatives
and friend’s home directly with food. According to the custom, after the eve of
the New year, the first people enter the owner’s house has a black hair, that
means happiness to the owner; if the people go with a light color hair, that
means sadness. The different people come represent different meanings to the
owners.
Another
example is about Scotland. In the eve of the New year’s day, people always put
some cash and some jewelry in front of their door way. When they open the door
on the New year’s day, they will see the money or jewelry, that means they will
be rich in the next year. I think this
custom is funny, so I searched the internet if the thief or a bad person will
steal the money in that day? The internet said no. I think it is so novelty. If
I have the opportunity in the future, maybe I will go there to spend the New
year.
For
the event for me to promote awareness about the topic, I will introduce the
event first. I think my topic it is very
easy to promote, I will gather the different countries’ people together, and
then, let them to talking about how they spend and celebrate the New year. It is
better for them to talk about the experience, the happiest thing happened during
the New year, to let the other people have a deeper impression. For example, in
our class, the students are from different countries, like the native speaker,
Korean, Chinese, Mexican, the people must have the different type of the custom.
If we hold this activity, it will be funny and also can help people have the
awareness about the custom in other countries.
For
the last two event I have gone this before, first is the Opera Gala, second is
the event which named the history of Iowa located in downtown. Actually, I do
not think it is beneficial or have the influence to my event. Because for the
first event, Opera Gala, it is about the classical music, although I really
enjoy listening to music, even I listen the music everywhere, I do not think it
is beneficial to my event. My topic is
about New year’s custom; my event is let people gathered together to talk about
the experiences about New year. There is no more relation between each other. For
the second event, it is the history of the Iowa city, the purpose is to let the
people have more awareness about the history of Iowa, there was a women
introduced. As far as I am concerned, I think there is a little common between
that event and my event. Although they are different topic, but both of their
topic are going to introduce something to the people. That event I have gone wants to introduce the history
of Iowa city, I want to introduce the different country’s New year to the other
people. Maybe it is better for me to learn some skills or some good methods of introduce
from the women who presided over the second event for us.
In
conclusion, the reason why I choose this topic is because I want to broaden my horizons
through find the materials, also, the topic is very funny. I think it is very
necessary for each one to know some knowledge about the different customs. If you
have the opportunities to go other countries, knowing more custom it is helpful
a lot to you, like do not make so many mistakes and so on. Also, less than 20
days is the Christmas day, I think if we think about the happiness thing, it
can make us relax during the final weeks.