nged at midnight. Homes are filled with the sounds of happy children, who traditionally receive coins in red envelopes on New Years Eve.
For the next two weeks, all shops are closed as people enjoy visiting friends and relatives. The atmosphere is friendly as children sing songs for sweet rice cakes and musicians play in the streets. The final and most impressive event is the Lantern Festival. Colourful lanterns are hung outside homes and a dragon parade takes place. The dragon is very long, made of paper and painted in bright colours. Men stand under the dragons head and body. The parade winds through the streets as crowds cheer and set off firecrackers.
The Chinese New Year is an exciting holiday which everyone looks forward to It is a celebration rich in tradition and full of happiness.
New Year in Scotland
The Scots celebrate Hogmanay on the night of December 31st. It is a time for people to welcome the coming of the new year.
Preparations for Hogmanay begin at the end of November when Christmas trees are decorated with colourful ornaments and twinkling lights. Shortbead biscuits and black buns - a kind of rich fruit cake - are baked. On Auld Years Night people dress smartly in their best outfits. They also wear any tartan clothes the might have. They gather in town squares and for midnight. Many attend parties where traditional folk music fills the air as people perform Scottish country dances. At midnight, the clock strikes twelve and the clanging sound of bells ringing can be heard. Everyone cheers and shouts "Happy New Year!" and sings "Auld Lang Syne". They kiss each other and drink a glass of Scotch whisky. Then the merry-makers go "first footing": they visit their friends
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