Do you clean your house for New Year’s?

Do you eat special food on New Year’s Day?

Do you visit a shrine or temple?

New Year's Traditions

At midnight, the clock chimes 12 times.

People eat 12 grapes.

This is a New Year's tradition in Spain.

Round fruits look like coins.

People wish for money.

This is a New Year's tradition in The Philippines.

We eat stewed black-eyed peas with pigtail on New Year’s Eve and New Year's Day.

Black-eyed peas represent coins. A New Year's tradition in Trinidad and Tobago.

On New Year’s Eve, they break plates on each other’s front doors.

Many broken plates mean a very lucky year.

This is a New Year's tradition in Denmark.

​People wear white clothes and go to the beach.

They jump over 7 waves and make 7 wishes.

This is a New Year's Eve Tradition in Brazil.

Onions represent change and growth. People put onions on their houses.

​​This is a New Year's Day Tradition in Greece.

People write a wish on paper. Then they burn it.

​​They put it in champagne and drink it before midnight. This is a New Year's Eve Tradition in Russia.

Ole Year's Day = Old Year's Day

The last day of the year!

Trinidad and Tobago Creole dialect (方言) we sometimes don't say the sound at the end of words.

Example: old = ole, don't = doh, sound = soun, end = en
~ing words = in