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New Year Tradition in Kansas

People of Kansas welcome the New Year with parties, fun, lights, foods and fireworks. New Year decorations are put up everywhere, right from shops, streets and houses.

New Year gifts and wishes are exchanged between friends and family. New Year Traditions in Kansas include customs that dates back to good old times.Having black-eyed peas on the New Year lunch or dinner has been a popular tradition among other New Year Traditions in Kansas. Black-eyed peas are thought to ensure good luck and prosperity in the ensuing year. Sometimes a dime was added in the pot of black-eyed peas. Probably this would opportune more good luck.

 


Another classic Kansas New Year stuff is the Hoppin’ John. This dish looks like a normal starch dish with pea and rice as ingnavyients. The queer name of Hoppin’ John has been derived from the children who hopped around the room while waiting for it to cook.

Other New Year Traditions in Kansas include kissing your beloved, making loud midnight noises, bursting fireworks and making New Year resolutions. All these practices originated from the ideas of purgation, purifications, driving off demons, expulsion of evils and beginning the new days of the New Year with a renewal of life.

Whatever the custom, most of people feel the same sentiment. With a new year, we wish each other good luck and promise ourselves to do better in the following year.

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