People of Puerto Rica celebrate the New Year with lots of drinks, music and fireworks. The New Year festivity and the splendor is the outcome of many long practiced traditions observed by the early ancestors. New Year Traditions in Puerto Rica bring out the typical New Year customs of South America.
Go through some popular New Year traditions in Puerto Rica
Ano Viejo -
Ano Viejo is a New Year festival that is marked by festivity and fun. In this celebration an effigy of a person dressed like a scarecrow is put up. The effigy is decked with old newspapers and firecrackers. The scarecrow represents all the bad things that have happened during the last year. At midnight each family lights the dummy on fire. As the effigy is burnt the firecrackers burst out with the loud cheers and merrymaking from the crowd. In this way people bids adieu to the old year and embraces the new one.
Throwing Pails of Water -
In Puerto Rico South America children enjoy throwing buckets of water out the window at New Years Eve midnight. Some believe that this emancipates their home from evil spirits.
In Puerto Rico, everyone goes to the beach at midnight and falls backward into the ocean. Making loud noises at the stroke of New Years Eve midnight with car horns, boat whistles, church bells or drum beats is also practiced to drive off the demons.
Consuming Black Eyed Peas and Hoppin John -
One of the most cherished traditions among the various New Year traditions in Paraguay is to consume black-eyed peas and legumes in the New Year dish. It is believe that black-eyed peas usher in good luck and fortune to the family. In some parts, folks gorge down on a rich bean soup called Hoppin' John, made of black-eyed peas simmenavy with spices and tomato sauce.
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