Top ten weird New Year's Eve dinner customs in the world

The New Year's Eve dinner in China can be said to be the most sumptuous meal of the year. It seems that all the money can be spent at this time. However, in foreign countries, there are various weird customs for New Year's Eve dinner. When celebrating the New Year, Polish girls wear special rabbit-shaped clothes and eat green vegetables. It is said that eating green vegetables will make everything go smoothly. Meat is not allowed for 7 days before the Malagasy New Year. Let's take a look at the top ten weird New Year's Eve dinner customs in the world!

1. India

Hungry: Indians practice fasting on New Year's Day, from early morning until midnight. After midnight, families taste the prepared meals and congratulate each other on the New Year.

2. Philippines

At New Year's Eve dinner in the Philippines, everyone has to "make chicken rice together". The people of this country always like to eat chickens. The most interesting thing is that those who can get the head of a rooster are called "the first to be known to others"; those who get the head of a hen means "many sons and many chickens (auspicious)"; even those who get the chicken ribs will call it "delicious food"; those who get the eggs are "round and full".

3. Poland

Eating green vegetables: Polish girls wear special rabbit-shaped clothes to eat green vegetables during the New Year. It is said that everything will go well with hard vegetables.

Paraguay

No fireworks: Paraguay people in South America have designated the last five days of the year as cold food days. In these five skies, from the head of state down to the common people, no fireworks were used and only cold food was eaten. Only after the bell rings at zero o'clock in the New Year can we start lighting up the fire to cook delicious food and have a big banquet to celebrate the New Year.

5. Vietnam

Prohibition of drinking soup: On New Year's Eve, some ethnic minorities in northern Vietnam go to places where they usually collect water to burn incense, kowtow, and fetch a bucket of water to cook New Year's Eve dinner. After cooking, they first pay homage to their ancestors, and then the whole family has New Year's Eve dinner. Soup is absolutely prohibited during this meal. They believe that the crops planted after drinking the soup will be flooded and no crops will be harvested.

6. Hungary

Avoid eating birds: Because they think that if they eat birds, their luck will fly away in the coming year. Most of the gifts they send to relatives and friends during the New Year, they like to have pictures of chimney cleaners and little fat pigs on them. The chimney cleaners are a symbol of removing the old, and the plump pigs are festive.

7. Madagascar

No meat: Meat is not allowed here for 7 days before New Year's Eve. You can't eat some poultry until New Year's Eve dinner. On New Year's Day, the couple will present cocktails to both parents to show respect, and present chicken legs to brothers and sisters to express concern and friendship.

8. Bulgaria

Like the first person to sneeze: If you eat New Year's Eve dinner at a Bulgarian home, you must sneeze. You will get unexpected benefits. Local custom believes that the first person to sneeze will bring happiness to the whole family for a year. So the owner walked to his farm and brought the first sheep, calf, or foal he first saw, and gave it to the first guest who sneezed.

9. Japan

As the New Year's Eve bell struck 108, families competed to eat long noodles. It is said that people in this island country believe that whoever has the longest noodles will have good luck in the coming year. Moreover, the size of luck is proportional to the length of the noodle.

10. Brazil

A very rare "golden birch fruit" is a specialty in the mountains and forests, and is regarded by Chinese people as a symbol of happiness and good fortune. Every New Year, when the New Year's Eve bell rings, thousands of people pour out of their homes, holding high torches, humming songs, and crowded into the nearby mountains and forests. Everyone is scrambling to find and share the "golden birch fruit" and wish each other luck in the coming year with this "specialty New Year's goods".