Quiz
1. When do the Chinese celebrate their New Year?
2. During the Scottish ceremony, Hogmanay, the townspeople join in the "Creaming of the Well." The person who drinks from the well first is guaranteed:
3. How do the Ecuadorians cleanse their faults for the New Year?
4. On the morning of the Vietnamese New Year, Tet, what are children not allowed to do?
5. What happens shortly before midnight, on New Year's Eve, in Japan?
1. When do the Chinese celebrate their New Year?
During the second new moon after the winter solstice.
2. During the Scottish ceremony, Hogmanay, the townspeople join in the "Creaming of the Well." The person who drinks from the well first is guaranteed:
A mate.
3. How do the Ecuadorians cleanse their faults for the New Year?
They burn a straw man decorated with the family's clothes.
4. On the morning of the Vietnamese New Year, Tet, what are children not allowed to do?
Cry.
5. What happens shortly before midnight, on New Year's Eve, in Japan?
Buddhist temples ring their bells 108 times.
Behind the times.
Pretty good for an old fogey.
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