pend the evening at Trafalgar Square, Crowds gather and wait for 12 oclock when the chimes of the famous Big Ben ring out. Everyone begins to sing happily and wish each other a happy and healthy new year.
No matter where New Years Eve is spent, the feeling is the same. People cheerfully celebrate this joyful occasion.
New Year in Australia
Most Australians have been dreaming of a white New Year for centuries. But the traditional European New Year does not fit with Australias thirty-degree heat.
New Year in Australia happens in summer. The only New Year cards published portrayed white winter New Year. All this was a bit ridiculous in a country where 80 percent of the land has never seen a snowflake, even in winter.
On New Years Eve you find a lot of kids on the beach playing with their new surfboards, building sandcastles rather than snowmen. Indeed one of the typical Australian New Year presents that nearly every Australian receives once in their life is a beach towel.
Australians buy special food and drinks for the day. They cook biscuits and cookies with milk, they make ham, vegetables, special fruitcakes and puddings and eat tropical fruits.
New Year in China
The Chinese New Year festivities are held at the end of January or beginning of February for a period of one month. During this time, Chinese people celebrate the end of the winter season.
Preparations begin in December when shops are filled with people buying gifts. Buying new shoes is extremely important because it is believed that if you walk in old shoes on New Years Day, youll have bad luck.
On New Years Eve, families gather at home and cover their doors with strips of red paper. This is meant to keep out evil spirits. Gifts are excha
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