“New Year’s is celebrated in different ways all around the world,” says Jo Hayes ... Eat black-eyed peas as your first food on New Year’s Day A beloved ritual for Southerners, eating ...

Chinese factories shut down for the holiday and then some, with hundreds of millions of migrant workers heading to their hometowns, part of the world's largest mass movement of people. In the lead ...

These are just some of the New Year traditions observed in different parts of the world. Join BBC Bitesize ... depending on which day of the week New Year's Day falls. One of the biggest Hogmanay ...

BEIJING--Lunar New ... Year. The holiday — known as the Spring Festival in China, Tet in Vietnam and Seollal in Korea — is a major festival celebrated by diaspora communities around the world.

In some parts of the world ... eating soba to usher in the new year dates back to the Edo period (1603 to 1867) in Osaka, Japan. Most New Year practices are built around superstitions and beliefs ...