In Indonesia, the government of this country held a collective wedding for more than 500 couples right at the moment of New Year's Eve in 2019. The oldest groom and bride were the 75-year-old man and the 65-year-old woman. The youngest couple to participate in the event is 19 years old.
This is a special event in Indonesia, because all couples held at the wedding ceremony today are poor, homeless, and no longer have their personal documents. Therefore, if they organize a wedding according to traditional rituals, they will not have legal documents, such as a marriage certificate, to be able to make a birth certificate for their children. When participating in this collective wedding event, they are certified as legal and have access to public services. This is a special policy of the Jakarta government for the poor on the occasion of welcoming the New Year 2019.
In Thailand, people have very special ways of welcoming the New Year. Many Buddhists gathered at the Golden Temple in Bangkok to pray for peace in the new year at the moment of the year 2019. Every person who comes to pray is tied with a rope on his head. This is an important ritual of the Prayer Session.
In Korea, people have a habit of going to temples and pagodas to pray during the New Year.The wishes will be written on paper and hung at the temple.Korean couples often go to the temple together to write wishes at the moment of transition between the old year and the new year.
Koreans go to a pagoda in Seoul to pray after New Year's Eve.
This is the scene after the 2019 New Year's Eve celebration in Denmark. If in Vietnam, breaking a bowl of rice during the New Year is considered a matter of jealousy for fear of bringing disaster, for the Danish people, it has the opposite meaning. The Danish people have a tradition of collecting all the unused bowls and waiting until the night of December 31 to throw all the bowls into the doors of friends and family to get the porridge. The more a house has broken bowls outside the door, the more luck will be in the new year.
In addition to special events and rituals, people around the world often gather at places where fireworks and light festivals take place to welcome the New Year. In the photo is the moment of welcoming the year 2019 of Singaporeans.
Fireworks displays have long been a "specialty" of Sydney every New Year's Eve.
