Filipinos can relate to these Traditions and Practices!
The new year is the time of day when a new calendar year starts and the number of calendar years rises one by one. New Year's Day which takes place on 1 January, marks the beginning of the year of the Gregorian calendar. Count the New Year, wherever you are.
Time is the infinite progressive development of life and events which take place in a seemingly irreversible sequence between the past, the present, and the future. It is a part of a variety of different metrics used for sequencing events, comparing event duration/intervals, and quantifying the rate of changes in quantities in material reality or conscious experience.
The calendar year starts with New Year Day and finishes with the whole number of days on the day before the next New Year's. Another calculated year can also start on every other calendar day and end in the following year on the day before that named day.
New Year's Day celebrations differ significantly from one community to another. Some kids get presents in some countries on New Year's Day. In Japan, this is a famous vacation, with everybody celebrating their birthday. In Scotland, the holiday is called Hogmanay, which after midnight on New Year's Day is distinguished by the tradition of visiting family and friends.
Many people who were up for the New Year's Eve to welcome the New Year and work a day off on the New Year's Day have the opportunity to go into the church, go to friends or family, go to the movies, stay in or watch or play sports the rest of the day. Food is also a common activity to feast on traditional New Year dishes, but dishes are different from each other.
Many citizens are celebrating the New Year as the first day of beginning a new year resolution. There are parades for New Year's Day, some of which are televised. Some of them. New Year's Day typically starts at midnight time between New Year's and New Year's Day with fireworks and music as the clock strikes.
Philippine New Year's Day
The New Year is considered by many Filipinos as an important holiday in the Philippines. This marks the beginning of a new year in the Gregorian calendar, used in many countries such as the Philippines. A public holiday is New Year's Day. It is a public day off and schools and most corporations are closed.
Many societies somehow celebrate the occurrence and January 1st is also a national holiday. New Year's Day takes place on the 1st of January.
What Filipinos do during New Year's Eve?
Many Filipinos gather for a midnight meal known as the Media Noche on New Year's Eve, 31 December. The arrival of the New Year is often always awake. Filipinos light fireworks, which create a lot of noise to driving away evil minds, are also a characteristic of New Year's Day. The Chinese came to believe this.
The older children are encouraged to spring at midnight to grow up tall. Many people show 12 circular fruits and wear polka dots for money. It is also common to open at midnight all doors and windows to make you happy. A great number of Filipino families still read and attend a midnight church mass in the Christian bible. In the New Year celebration, it is popular for the many Philippines to mix faith and superstition.
The day of the new year is a public holiday on January 1. in the Philippines. Offices of government, schools, and most industries are shut down. Restricted bus and jeep services operating on New Year's Day are public transport.
The celebration for the day of the new year begins on 31 December and ends on 1 January. The Philippines New Year's Day is short but unique in the region. This is also the time of year that many Filipino families come together to build up family relations. New year's Day in the Philippines is a happy day that has the characteristics of the once Hispanic Philippine Association as the intermarriage between religion and paganism.
The Philippines symbolize New Year's Day with their views of opening up possibilities for a booming life at the start of the year. This is why the Filipino table is the highlight of this vacation because the table contains plenty of food to represent money in circular shapes or round shapes. Fireworks also symbolize a New Year's Day misfortune taking away.
New Year festivities are full of entertainment and an intriguing showcase of Filipino family beliefs
New year celebrations in the Philippines are filled with enjoyable and strange activities. Firstly, the entire country is becoming a kind of war zone, where fireworks are set up and there is a great deal of abandonment. The Philippines has other interesting rituals, as well as New Year-related superstitions and folk beliefs. Filipino people have been practicing different customs for the coming year for decades. Many do so with an awaiting spirit, fostering hope and anticipating prosperity. These practices were transferred from generation to generation; some of them were inspired by the Chinese and by the Spanish.
Here are some uniquely Filipino traditions and practices to welcome the New Year:
For the Philippines, it means stability to use something round. Polkas represent money and wealth.
Children are encouraged to leap as high as possible at noon because old people feel it will make them grow stronger.
Without the old Filipino Tradition, Media Noche, New Year's celebration for the Philippines is not complete. In the evening of the New Year, families and friends from The Philippines come here for a sumptuous midnight feast, which symbolizes their wealth and a year to come. The Spaniards, who colonized the nation for more than 300 years, most likely have inherited this tradition.
Filipinos assume that the round is a sign of wealth and prosperity. The Chinese have become the legacy of this tradition. Sometimes in the middle of Media Noche are the round fruits. Often avoided as thorns symbolize issues or obstructions are fruits with thorns such as pineapples, jack-fruits, and durians.
The Philippines are considered to be very familiar with intimate relationships with their relatives. They believe that eating food made from sticky rice, like Bibingka, Biko, and Tikoy can make families stronger together. Good fortune is also predicted.
That's another Chinese influence that the new year will help bring luck and also a healthy and long life when eating pancit (long noodles).
A practice that some Filipinos still follow is to avoid eating chicken and fish, which symbolize or are related to food shortages.
The New Year is always best welcomed, so many Filipinos ensure their water and rice containers are completely packed during the New Year celebration as they believe that their lives will flourish throughout the year.
Another common practice amongst kids is to fill your pockets with coins and shake your pocks at midnight. It is assumed that this activity brings fortune. Some also scatter coins around their homes - they bring them more fortune and money at every nook and corner, in drawers, on a table and anywhere they believe.
Firecrackers and fireworks are also Chinese influences. The key idea is to make noisy sounds to shock and scare away evil spirits and elements.
Open all doors, windows, drawers,s, and cabinets to fetch in good wealth and let the positive vibes in.
Ideally, a debt-free New Year should be accepted. Everything in your financial condition will be the same for the remaining year as the clock reaches midnight on New Year's Day.
Not investing a single peso on the first day of the year is supposed to result in better management for the remainder of the year. There are also the Philippines who would prefer to stay home on 1 January to avoid spending money.
"WHATEVER TRADITIONS AND PRACTICES WE HAVE, DON'T FORGET TO WORK HARD. OUR LUCK IS IN OUR WORK HARD."
