different custom about New year.

                                                   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.