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The tradition of celebrating the New Year in different countries New Year in Australia • Very exotic New Year celebrations are held in Australia. • Due to the lack of snow, trees, deer and other attributes of the usual holiday Santa Claus appears in a swimming suit on special brightly decorated surfing on the beaches of Sydney. Moreover, following the tradition of the Old World, his clothes are always presented with white beard and a red hat with pompons at the end. • On New Year's Eve large companies attend various public places in the open air, where there is salute. A feature of the Australian New Year celebration is the practical absence of walking after midnight. Australians wake up at 5-6 am and go to visit friends at weekends or holidays, and go to bed no later than ten o'clock. So Christmas midnight itself is an exception.
But at 00.10 all people are in bed. New Year in Austria • In Austria, people on New Year's Eve in Vienna go to the cathedral of St. On December 31, thousands of people gather at Cathedral Square.
In the old days the same in this country was considered a good omen to meet a chimney sweep, to touch him and get dirty. It was believed that it brings good fortune and luck.
In Austria, on New Year's decided to give porcelain or glass pigs, often in the form of a piggy bank. According to local customs, such pigs must necessarily bring wealth to whom they donated. • In Argentina, according to a long tradition of serving institutions in the last day of the working year thrown from the windows of the old calendars, unnecessary statements and forms.
In the business part of the country - Buenos Aires - by noon the sidewalks and roadway densely covered with plump layer of paper. Vetkodrobilka svoimi rukami. No one knows how and when did this custom. Not without incidents.
Once excessively flared staff of a newspaper thrown out the window the entire archive. New Year in Burma • Burma's Lunar New Year falls on the hottest time of his parish celebrated the festival of water. The spectacle must say, most amusing: people at the meeting poured water on each other from different dishes. But pouring water not to offend anyone, because this ritual - a kind of wish for happiness in the New Year.
New Year in Bulgaria • In Bulgaria, New Year's Eve acquires Kizilova sticks - an indispensable attribute of the New Year holiday. Children, going to the family and friends, flipping sticks, congratulates. 