This presentation describes some traditions of celebrating New Year in different countries

1. IEARN
◦Places and Perspectives
Learning Circle 1 (High
School)

2. New Year
in different
countries

3. NEW YEAR IN
MOLDOVA

4. TH.L " V. ALECSANDRI"
MOLDOVA
Student:Buga Victoria
Teacher:Grusca Dumitru

5. MOLDOVA HAS A UNIQUE CULTURE, RICH IN
HOLIDAYS, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS. SHAPED BY
HISTORY, CUSTOMS AND TRADITIONS HAVE EMERGED
FROM THE COMBINATION OF RUSSIAN, UKRAINIAN,
AND OTHER INFLUENCES WITH LOCAL MOLDOVAN
KNOWLEDGE. FOR EXAMPLE, IN MOLDOVA IT IS
CUSTOMARY TO GREET GUESTS WITH HOME-BAKED
BREAD, A PINCH OF SALT AND A GLASS OF WINE.
HOLIDAYS IN MOLDOVA ARE CELEBRATED
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, HOWEVER THE MOST
IMPORTANT HOLIDAYS ARE DURING WINTER ARE IN
STRONG CONNECTION TO THE ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN
RELIGION.

6. New Year and Christmas in Moldova

7. The entire world is excited about coming winter holidays! Moldova isn’t an exception. So, Moldavians are also happy
to Christmas and New Year. Moldova is also preparing to this great holidays!
December is crazy month as everyone goes shopping trying to find the best gifts for close people, friends and
relatives. Children often make greeting cards for their parents. People decorate their houses, trees… At this time
holidays are not only in the minds but also in the air. In Chisinau, the capital city, there are many Santa Clauses. In
Moldova children call Santa Claus “Ded Moroz” (i.e. Grandpa Frost). These Santas greet children in the shops,
theatres, and just on the streets, everywhere. So, children are the most excited! However these all is preparing…
The main event still follows!
Unlike many other countries Moldova celebrates rather Christmas than New Year. So, the whole country has a great
holiday in the night of 31st December. This is the night when people wait for 12 pm and right in the midnight they
altogether drink sparkling wine. There's a tradition of putting little papers with different wishes inside placinte
(traditional Moldovan food. It's something like cake with filling). When you eat placinte you read what's written on
those papers and that is what waits for you in New Year.
Children are more excited at 1st January morning. This is the time when they find their gifts under New Year tree.
They believe the gifts where left by Ded Moroz. Usually all the day they tell to everybody what a great surprise was
waiting for them under New year tree! They always wonder how did Ded Moroz managed to bring gifts to all children
in one single night!
Christmas is celebrated on 7th January. However, unfortunately, this holiday isn't widely celebrated inside the
country. Usually just old people celebrate it and all others just have free day. Some people this day go to their
grandparents.
After Christmas winter holidays in Moldova are over and all the people start their everyday life in the New Year.

8. Winter Holidays

9. Winter is notorious for the multitude of traditions and holidays. On the 6th of
December we celebrate St. Nicholas – marking the opening of the cold season. A
children’s favorite, on the night of St. Nicholas sweets or gifts are left inside their
shoes, but only if they behaved throughout the year and have always kept their
shoes clean.
In Moldova, Christmas is celebrated according to two different calendars: the old
(still followed in Russia) and the new orthodox calendar (followed in Romania);
therefore, some families celebrate on the 25th of December, while the majority of
the population still celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January. On Christmas Eve,
children, but also adults, go door-to-door to announce the birth of Christ. They
usually sing carols accompanied by mini plays, for which they are rewarded with
sweets or money.
On New Year’s Eve, children will again go door-to-door to offer warm greetings,
wishing a Happy New Year, prosperous and beautiful achievements; and they are
rewarded with sweets or other goodies.

11. Happy New Year in Moldova...

12. New Year in Belarus
by Tanya Tarasenko
And Alesya Truhan
Mogilev Secondary School №8

13. New Year in
Mogilev

16. New Year
in Minsk

18. Belarusian Father Frost lives in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

21. NEW YEAR IN
ROMANIA

22. Traditions and habits for the New Year’s Eve
In every place we find the night which makes the transition between years, must be aware that each
has certain superstitions hard in part and traditions related to the New Year.
Romania, according to tradition, the
Romanians in the New Year should make
as much noise to ward off all evil spirits.
Some Romanians go even further and use
to keep in a pocket garlic , loaf, which is
meant to protect them from evil spirits.
Another superstition New Year is that both
the last day of the year, and the first day of
the new is better not to spend money and
not take anything from the house (including
garbage) because, once he throws out of
Home Luck.

23. And that all comes to money, there is the superstition that people should not have any debt
when the new year begins. Otherwise, they will owe the full year.
Also, a well-known superstition says that the first person to cross the threshold of the house
on the first day of the year will affect us all year. Traditionally, people with red or blond hair
bring bad luck while the brunette brings good luck. Also, if the first person to enter the
house is male, the year will be full of luck, whereas if women enter first, it will be full of bad
luck.
Elders say that the passage of the years is good that everyone wear a new garment but
something red or another color dishes to attract all the positive energy. Moreover, in the
New Year people are not allowed to sleep, and those who resist will not be sleepy all year.
Another tradition says that New Year's Eve must always have in my pocket a few grains of
wheat, to be free from hunger all year. Also, you must have money in your pocket and that
the new year will not get you poor.

24. Among the most beautiful customs that Romanians have in the New Year but also the first day of
the new year, carols play an important role. Among them really need to remember Sorcova and
Plugușorul.

25. Romanians tend to consume fish in the night of the New Year’s Eve, in order to ensure a
smooth and easy transition in the coming year. On the other hand, poultry is the bringer
of bad luck. This is because birds brief dig the earth and spread it, which correlated with
prosperity and good scattering of the house.

26. Project made by:
◦ Constantin Codrin
◦ Gherman Andrei
◦ Moldovan Andreea
◦ Tișe Denisa
from „Avram Iancu” High School Cluj-Napoca
Romania
teacher: Dana Liana Vaida

27. New Year traditions and customs in
Russia

28. New Year is a wonderful holiday.
It is celebrated everywhere and
Russia is no exception. It begins
with preparation. People put up
New Year’s trees and decorate
them with toys, garlands, balls
and ribbons.

29. There are many New
Year customs and
traditions. The table is
full of food. People
believe that the richer
the table,
the more prosperity in the coming year. It is believed that on the New Year’s table there
must be poultry or rabbit. It attracts happiness to the house. It is considered that you
should meet New Year wearing new clothes. You will wear new dress the whole year.
Before the New Year you should forget grudges and forgive people.

30. On the New Year’s eve you should
wash the house , windows and
mirrors, get rid of old unnecessary
things, throw away broken dishes.
Everyone at midnight makes a wish. There are
many different customs. The most difficult is
to catch a minute to write a wish on paper
burn it, throw the ashes into a champagne
glass and drink.

31. There is another New Year
ritual by which people could
make predictions about their
health in the coming year.
On the New Year’s eve you
should freeze water in a
spoon, and if where are
bubbles,
you will have good health, and the hole in the center means diseases.

32. Now the New Year is,
above all, fun, partying all
night, and fireworks. In the
old days during the New
Year celebrations people
used some devices making
noise and screamed, it was
believed that it
scared away evil spirits. So our modern firecrackers and fireworks in some way can also be
considered as a ritual for expelling evil spirits

33. Another integral tradition
of the New Year is giving
gifts. By the way, in Russia
there was a tradition to
give gifts to Father Frost
to appease him. But now everyone is waiting for gifts from
Father Frost himself. In pre-revolutionary Russia Father
Frost put presents in the socks, and then put them under
the New Year’s tree. Now you can
give gifts in different ways, in every family, I guess there is
some sort of tradition for the presentation of gifts.

34. People began to abandon the heavy dishes and mayonnaise. But to open a bottle of
"Soviet champagne" this is a must. With the TV and rich new year table, people stopped
arranging New Year’s contests and dancing. A large table replaced this tradition.

35. It has become very popular to invite Father Frost and the Snow Maiden to our home, they
congratulate children. Another New Year’s tradition, which is over 70 years old is the President's
address to the nation on the new year's night. For the first time it was possible in 1935 when the
radio was invented. But no matter how varied New Year’s traditions and customs are the New
Year has always been and will always be a special celebration full of magic and wonders.

36. Happy New Year!
Project made by
Komarov Alexandr
Sungatullina Dinara
Malmyzh Lyceum Russia