Fireworks For The New Year
All over the globe, in most major cities in the world, every December 31 at the strike of midnight, the once dark sky will transform into a colorful magnificient display of fireworks and all heads up with lots of ohhs and ahhs, and there are others who are just plain speechless as they observed the glittering display of fireworks right in front of them.
In the beginning, I learned/heard that fireworks was not performed every New Years Eve or at the strike of midnight just for the colorful display that it gives. its been told that fireworks creates noise, lots and lots of noise, that is why it is performed on New Years Eve/Day to drive the bad spirit away for the new year, and the whole year through. In the olden times, and in some countries at present, noise are still being performed on New Years Eve/Day in the hopes of driving away the evil spirits that are lurking around. Yes, these traditions for that purpose are still being observed at this time of year, specially in some countries. These countries who still observe these traditions, aside from using fireworks to produce noise, people also use drums, empty cans, and any other noise creating methods are performed for this purpose.
What about you? Do you watch fireworks show/displays every New Years Day? Like some traditions, do you also believe in noise created during New Year Eve/Day drives away bad spirits and misfortunes?
Happy NEW YEAR 2008, everyone! Wishin everyone the BEST YEAR yet!
2 comments:
Traditional Japanese New Year celebration is very solemn. They just go to the temples and ring the bell 108 times, I guess. Others just go to a place where they could watch clearly the first sunrise of the year.
But USJ and another theme park here in Osaka have fireworks display.
Happy New Year!
thanks bisdakbabbles for sharing this, the Japanese tradition sounds very solemn and meaningful tradition. i also kind of like the watching the sunrise! i could hopfully start doing that starting next year 2009!
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