The customs that are practiced to call good luck.
New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve or New Year's Eve, is the last night of the year at the Gregorian calendar;It includes approximately, therefore, from December 20 to 6:00 on January 1 (New Year).It is usually celebrated since it was changed to the Gregorian calendar in 1582.
In Argentina different traditions are made to fire the year, perhaps the most common is to dress in white: a custom that is done in order to absorb good vibrations.White is the color of purity and renewal.This association is explained because being an acromatic tone, white itself is not a color but a light composed of the sum of all colors, therefore, it is able to attract new energies.
Beyond this that is done throughout the country, if one would like to lookCeremony that was made for the first time in 1956, in the corner of streets 10 and 40, and which consists of incinerating "momos".
The dolls are prepared by children, adolescents and adults, who collect funds with the collaboration of merchants in the area.And these figures - which represent children's characters, animals, sports figures, art, culture or politics - are erected about wood, iron and wire structures, and are with newspaper and paper Maché, which is then painted.
However, that is not the only tradition that persists in the national territory.Many Argentines usually eat 12 grape raisins (one for each bell that announces the change of calendar) as part of the end of the year celebrations.The objective?Have a sweet year.
In addition, many women usually use a pink bombing as a way of attracting good luck.That among women an intimate garment of this type is a very Argentine Christmas tradition inspired by the Victorian era, when the fashion of the Cortes at Christmas imposed pink in dresses and lingerie.Pink, also inspired by the candles of ancient Christian rituals for Christmas Eve, has the purpose of attracting prosperity and good luck.In this way, on December 24, a pink bombing is given and then it opens 25 or 31.
In addition to this, many go to the sidewalk to walk for a while carrying suitcases to be a year conducive to trips.
What happens in other parts of the world
The tradition of eating the 12 grapes is common in many countries throughout the planet.In Spain, for example, they do it at the Puerta del Sol, in Madrid, at midnight, and here the question is more severe: the belief indicates that he who does not eat them all before the bells are finished, will have one year of bad luck.
Meanwhile, in Peru what cousin has to do with clothing;More precisely, yellow clothes since this color is related to the rising sun.There they also usually manufacture dolls with media characters, inside whose objects they stopped using in the old year.
Similarly, in Honduras and Ecuador burn garments and furniture that symbolize a bad memory;And in Colombia it is written in Papelos what you want to move away from life and keep them in a doll to which fire turns.
In Mexico, for its part, one of the peculiarities is that there is the belief that, to attract money, you have to put a small plastic sheep behind the main entrance of a house during the first hours of the year.
On the other hand, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the party of Iemanjá, the goddess of the sea, on January 1, is held, although in Bahia and Fortaleza it is celebrated in February.There, people enter the sea and throw floral offerings: white gladiolos to ask for peace, red for love and yellow for money.Also, letters with orders are thrown for the new year that the Yoruba deity promises to comply.
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Other ephemeris
● 1929.Raquel Liberman, a young woman born in Ukraine and arrived in Argentina as a victim of human trafficking, formalizes the complaint that dismantles the network known as Zwi Migdal.The case causes the processing and preventive detention of 108 people who brought Jewish girls fleeing anti -Semitic persecution in Europe.The Zwi Migdal operated under the facade of the Israelite of Mutual Warsaw Surfaces.Liberman's complaint meant the end of the network.
● 1936.Miguel de Unamuno dies in Salamanca.The Spanish writer was 72 years old.It was part of the 98 generation.Author of Abel Sánchez, life of Don Quijote and Sancho and the tragic feeling of life, among other works.A few months before his death, he supported the military uprising that triggered the Spanish Civil War.He regretted and faced in a famous debate to General José Millán-Astray, who proclaimed "Intelligence dies!".Unamuno replied with the famous phrase "You will overcome, but you will not convince".
● 1937.In Wales one of the great British actors was born: Anthony Hopkins.He was seen in the lion in winter and in the elephant man before consecration as Hannibal Lecter in the silence of the innocents, which earned him the Oscar.Later he appeared in what remains of the day, Nixon, Amistad and the two potatoes, among other films.In 2021 he received a second Oscar, for the father.
● 1958.Athlete Osvaldo Suárez wins San Silvestre's career in San Pablo.It is the first, and to date, the only Argentine to win the traditional end of the year test.His victory marks the beginning of an unprecedented milestone in the race since 1925: win three years in a row the San Silvestre.He died in 2018.
● 1980.In Toronto, Marshall McLuhan dies at 69.The Canadian professor became in the 50s one of the greatest experts on the impact of the media on the world.He raised concepts such as "cold media" and "hot media" and the notion that "the medium is the message".In addition, he starred in one of the most famous bowling in the history of cinema in Annie Hall, by Woody Allen, in 1977.
● 1980.One of Hollywood's most prolific and influential filmmakers dies in California: Raoul Walsh.I was 93 years old.Among his films are artists and models, the violent twenties, high Sierra (both with Humprey Bogart), and died with their boots, starring errol Flynn.In the years of silent cinema he directed the thief of Baghdad and White PRCE Glory?.In 1927 he was one of the founders of the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences, which delivers the Oscars.
● 2019.The World Health Organization is informed of 27 cases of unknown cause pneumonia in China.The bulk of cases occur in a seafood market in the city of Wuhan.Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan reinforce surveillance at their borders.It is the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
