NEW YEAR TIPS The New Year holidays are approaching. Do you know what to put under the tree? How to decorate an apartment for the New Year? What are the New Year's traditions and why are tangerines considered a New Year's fruit? How to set the table and what champagne to choose for the New Year's table? What to put under the tree
Of course, cotton wool, Santa Claus and the Snow Maiden and gifts. A lot, in multi-colored boxes and wrappers, so that everything was like a real surprise, a real miracle. Let the gifts lie in advance so that the whole evening there is a mood of something not achieved and not realized. Everyone will pass by the Christmas tree and look sideways under it. Everyone will have a sense of something mysterious, so the desire to know the secret will spur.
Anything can be under the tree. Since the pig will be the symbol of the New Year, plant a small toy, make a bowl of acorns for it, let it fill the gifts with positive energy. In addition, be sure to put postcards that will indicate what exactly is intended for whom. The main gifts can be completely different things: from a pen to an apartment in the center of Moscow (although, of course, you can’t put an apartment under the Christmas tree, but keys are possible). Let the gifts be original, but at the same time useful and pleasant. Think carefully about what kind of gift corresponds to the character and interests of the person.

Room decoration for the New Year
In addition to dressing up for the New Year, don't forget to decorate the house where the celebration will take place. It is not necessary to repaint the walls and draw multi-colored Christmas trees on the wall, it is also not necessary to glue stars on the ceiling, and in general it is not necessary to make repairs in the apartment. Enough to buy different beautiful garlands, light bulbs, posters and decorate these walls. You can also inflate a lot of balloons with helium and stick them to the ceiling.

In addition to this, from ordinary balls you can make magnificent multi-colored garlands, as well as figures that can symbolize the animal of the New Year. In addition, you can decorate not a Christmas tree, but a palm tree that grows in your tub. It will be beautiful and you will remember the warm days.

If you celebrate the New Year in a club or in a restaurant, then the decoration of the room can be more varied. For example, the walls can be decorated in the style of the party being held. If the holiday is themed and, for example, the main idea of ​​the event is a pirate theme, then you can use various items that correspond to this concept as decorations. Do not forget that a good meeting of the new year depends on the atmosphere!

"Christmas tree" traditions
The first written mention of the New Year (Christmas) tree dates back to the 16th century. In the German city of Strasbourg, both the poor and noble families decorated their fir trees with colored paper, fruits and sweets in winter. Gradually, this tradition spread throughout Europe. The very tradition of celebrating the New Year with a Christmas tree appeared in Russia under Peter I. In 1699, he issued a decree by which he introduced a new chronology - from the Nativity of Christ, and ordered the New Year to be celebrated in a European way - on January 1. By royal decree, all residents of Moscow were ordered to celebrate the New Year's Eve: light bonfires on New Year's Eve, set off fireworks, congratulate each other, decorate houses with coniferous trees. The beautiful custom of decorating the Christmas tree has been around for a long time. Already about two thousand years ago, many peoples decorated the Christmas tree. In those days, people believed that the spirits of vegetation and fertility lived in the trees, on which the harvest of bread and vegetables allegedly depended. At the end of December, when the days became longer and a new “sunny” year began, people went to the forest and hung “gifts” for the spirits on the branches of the largest Christmas tree so that they would be kinder and give a good harvest. But after the death of Peter I, they stopped putting up New Year trees. Only the owners of taverns decorated their houses with them, and these trees stood in taverns all year round - hence their name came from - "fir-trees-sticks".

But in the 20s of the last century, the Bolsheviks forbade arranging Christmas trees and celebrating the New Year, considering it a "bourgeois whim" and an "old-fashioned custom." In addition, in their opinion, "the New Year's holiday is too close in the calendar to the priest's Christmas and people should not be led into temptation." From that moment on, the New Year tree "went underground": only in some families they decided to arrange it and did it secretly. In December 1935, party leader Pavel Postyshev "rehabilitated" the holiday, and in 1936 a Christmas tree for children and youth was arranged in the Hall of Columns. forest beauty returned after many years of oblivion and has entered our lives forever as an evergreen miracle and fairy tale. In 1954, the main Christmas tree of the country, the Kremlin, was lit for the first time, which sparkles and sparkles every New Year. So putting Christmas trees in houses is not such an ancient invention as it might seem. Continue the tradition!!

Tangerines - New Year's fruits
Mandarin is not just a fruit. This is New Year's fruit No. 1 and, in combination, the second symbol of the New Year after the Christmas tree. The tangerine smell is so closely intertwined with the pine aroma of spruce that it is sometimes difficult to know where one ends and the other begins. Under the tree, in addition to beautifully wrapped gifts and various sweets, there is always a large dish of tangerines. it new year tradition, which came to us from the scarce Soviet times, did not take root badly in the expanses of Russian democracy. Moreover, the choice of tangerines has become much more extensive, and you can get them without problems at any time of the year. Different varieties carry different taste and color sensations, but one thing is invariable - this is a special tangerine-New Year spirit.

What is so unusual about a mandarin besides the New Year's mood and an unsurpassed festive aroma? It is generally accepted that Orange color already subconsciously evokes in people a feeling of joy, delight, spiritual uplift. At the sight of these bright cute fruits, it already becomes fun and good. What more could you want during a holiday? But things are even better. In Japan, there is a tradition according to which tangerines symbolize the longevity of the family. So eat more tangerines - and there will be many, many more wonderful holidays ahead of you.

We serve the New Year's table
Some may think why, they say, serve the New Year's table, because no one will notice it anyway, everyone will swoop in and sweep away the festive dishes in an instant. However, this is not the case. A beautifully set table creates no less festive and solemn mood than a well-decorated room and a Christmas tree flashing with multi-colored lights. Therefore, this element of preparation for the New Year should not be overlooked. For serving New Year's table you need to choose beautiful holiday plates, which are probably stored in every house for such “special occasions”. Tall champagne glasses, juice glasses, cutlery - everything should be in its place. Now you can decorate the table a little: put New Year-themed napkins near each plate (snowflakes, snowmen, Santa Claus, Christmas tree).

Place a composition in the center of the table spruce branches, cones, ribbons and bows (any available material can be used). She will directly point to the occasion on which the guests gathered at the table. It's nice to eat and admire the beautiful decor. Do not forget to put candles in beautiful candlesticks in several places on the table (be careful not to start a fire). Choose the right place for candles so that a guest who wants to reach, for example, a bread box, does not burn his hand. In general, candles give an atmosphere of mystery and evoke thoughts of something wonderful, which is so close in spirit to the New Year. Use this prem to enhance the solemnity of the moment.

Champagne on the table!
The most New Year's drink is, undoubtedly, champagne. A minute before the clock strikes twelve, thousands of people all over Russia uncork bottles of champagne with a clap and pour the golden sparkling liquid into tall glasses in order to raise them to the coming of the New Year. This tradition is so firmly rooted in the minds of our compatriots that it is simply impossible to imagine the New Year without sparkling wine.

New year's night long, so you should stock up on champagne thoroughly. It can be everyone's favorite standard - "Soviet champagne", or Moldovan, Crimean sparkling wines. For more sophisticated connoisseurs, French drinks are suitable. After all, the birthplace of champagne is just in France - in the province of Champagne. The first technology for making champagne was developed by the Benedictine monk Dom Pierre Pérignon. One of the "premium" varieties of champagne is named after him.

Usually, after drinking champagne, the celebrants move on to stronger drinks. But this is not at all necessary. You can diversify the holiday by preparing original champagne cocktails. The bartender show and the competition for the best cocktail look very nice. Guests are happy to get involved in alcohol competitions (who will drink faster, who will quickly understand what the cocktail is made of).

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Christmas and New Year are coming to cities and countries around the world. Santa Clauses are starting to take to the streets everywhere from Beijing to Beirut, and everywhere you can see the approach of the holiday - on luminous trees, in garlands, in shop windows, temples and other places.

A man dressed as Santa Claus with a smoke bomb rides a wakeboard on a small lake in Hamburg December 5.

A tree in front of Christmas lights in Nervión, Seville, December 11.

People look at the Christmas tree from Rockefeller Center after the annual Christmas light-lighting ceremony in New York on November 30. Thousands of people came to watch the lighting of the 12-ton 22-meter Norwegian Christmas tree during one of the main ceremonies in New York.

Santa Claus Larry Durian is scanned at Canton Airport in Greene, Ohio, December 8. Santa spent about seven hours at the airport greeting passengers.

The choir of the Royal Cambridge College during a rehearsal of the Christmas service in one of the chapels of Cambridge on December 11. The first Christmas choirs appeared on Christmas Eve in 1918, and millions of people around the world watch television broadcasts of their performances.

A Christmas tree on Red Square against the backdrop of the Pokrovsky Cathedral and the Spasskaya Tower (right) in Moscow on December 2.

Jonathan Fernandez, 6, sleeps in a Best Buy cart on Black Friday, after Thanksgiving, November 26 in Naples, Florida

People watch fireworks during a huge Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Beirut on December 9.

Donald Boyce dressed as Santa in a canoe at Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii on December 11.

A Christmas tree in Washington DC after the festive lights were lit on December 7th.

US President Barack Obama and his daughter Sasha at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Washington on December 9.

A participant in the "marathon of Santa Clauses" on Princes Street in Edinburgh on December 12

Fireworks over a Christmas tree on the water in the Lagoa district of Rio de Janeiro on December 4.

A participant in the parade at the Festival of Lights in San Jose, Costa Rica, December 11.

A girl swims in water illuminated by lights in Medellin, Colombia on December 4.

Santa Claus at the Christmas tree market in Mellensee, near Berlin, December 12. According to the estimates of the German lumberjack association, the Germans can buy 29 million Christmas trees this season.

Runners at the end of the Santa Speedo Marathon, which began outside the Lir Irish Pub & Restaurant, in Boston on Dec. 11.

A man wears a huge balloon near a shopping mall in Taipei, Taiwan on December 7.

A trumpeter plays in front of a Christmas tree on the Bergparade ("Mountain Parade") during a snowfall in Seiffen, Germany on December 11.

Skiers and snowboarders dressed as Santa during the 11th annual "Santa Sunday" in Newry, Maine on December 5. Event attendees receive a free lift ticket if they show up dressed as Santa Claus and donate $10 (or more) to a Bethel Rotary club charity event.

Seven-year-old Jornie Skyersky chooses a new bike and helmet during a tree-lighting ceremony at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, Texas, December 7. Childrens Charities, Chalmer McWilliams and Texas Air Systems donated new bikes to 100 children.

Chinese police disperse a group of 100 foreigners participating in a SantaCon event in Beijing's Tiananmen Square December 11. Similar events are held all over the world, but Santa Claus was kicked out of the square.

Space-themed Christmas decorations over Carnaby Street in London on November 29.

Joanna Heller, dressed as an angel, gives the traditional monologue at the opening ceremony of Germany's oldest market in Nuremberg on November 26. The first records of this market date back to 1628.

Christmas tree against the backdrop of a statue of Lenin on the square of Rostov-on-Don on December 9.

Fire from a fireplace in a special room during a demonstration on the importance of fire safety measures in Menlo Park, California, December 9. The Menlo Park Fire Department held an annual fire safety demonstration to warn people of the danger of fire during the New Year holidays. At the demonstration, firefighters showed how quickly a fire can engulf an entire house if suddenly the tree catches fire from a fire in the fireplace or unattended candles.

A walrus named Nuka is eating birthday cake at the New York Aquarium in Brooklyn on Dec. This cake is not only tasty, but also healthy. Sometimes the keepers of the aquarium treat the animals with such goodies to give them a stimulation of physical strength and spirit.

A man dressed as Julenissen, the Norwegian Santa Claus, paints nesting dolls in Moscow December 7.

Amazon.co.uk English employees gear up for the busy holiday season in Swansea, Wales, November 26. With 800,000 sq. ft.

Children look at a festively decorated Macy's department store window in New York on December 11.

Runners dressed as Santa Claus during the Liverpool Marathon on December 5. At the annual event, thousands of participants run a 5-kilometer route through the streets of the city.

A girl checks the garlands on a Christmas decoration next to her sleeping son at a market stall on a Manila street December 11. Filipinos celebrate one of the longest Christmas seasons in the world, starting on December 16 and ending with Epiphany in January.

Christians with candles during a Christmas service at the Gelora Bung Karno stadium in Jakarta December 11. One hundred thousand Christians gathered at the largest stadium in the capital of Indonesia for this service.

A lone Christmas tree adorned with garlands and remote-controlled battery-operated toys greets drivers on the Glenn Highway near Palmer, Alaska, Dec. 5.

Glassblower Will Shakespeare makes glass beads at Shakspeare Glass and Gallery in Taunton, England on December 10. Somerset's traditional glassblowers make over 100 balls a day as Christmas approaches.

A man puts up models of houses at Germany's oldest market Christkindlsmarkt in Nuremberg November 26.

Eight-year-old Emma Mair hugs Santa Claus at Macy's Department Store in Cheektowag, New York, December 5.

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Soon the New Year will come to every house on our planet and. In any country from Beirut to Beijing, you can see Santa Clauses on the street, the eve of the holiday is also felt in temples, in shop windows, in garlands, luminous trees and other places. This issue of photography is dedicated to people who are preparing for the New Year and Christmas.

1. A man dressed as Santa Claus with fireworks in his hand rides a wakeboard on a lake in Hamburg on Dec. 5.

3. Christmas tree near the Rockefeller Center. Every year in New York on November 30, a ceremony of lighting Christmas lights is held. This time the Christmas tree has a height of 22 meters and a weight of 12 tons. A crowd of thousands of people always gathers to watch this ceremony.

4. Larry Durian dressed as Santa Claus at Canton Airport during a scan, Greene, Ohio. He spent about seven hours at the airport greeting passengers.

5. Rehearsal of the Christmas service of the choir of the Royal Cambridge College in the chapel of Cambridge, 11 December. In 1918, on the eve of Christmas, the first Christmas choirs appeared, the performances of which are televised all over the world.

7. Naples, Florida, 26 November. Jonathan Fernandez, 6, sleeps in a shopping cart at Best Buy after Thanksgiving on Black Friday.

9. Hawaii, Honolulu, December 11. Donald Boyce dressed as Santa Claus in a canoe near Waikiki beach.

10. Washington. Every year on December 7, a Christmas tree lighting ceremony is held.

11. Washington, 9 December. US President Barack Obama with his daughter Sasha at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

12. Edinburgh, 12 December. One of the participants in the Santa Claus Marathon, which took place on Princes Street.

16. Not far from Berlin, December 12. A man dressed as Santa Claus at the Christmas market in Mellenze.

17. Boston, 11 December. Runners during the Santa Speedo marathon, which started at the Lir Irish Pub & Restaurant.

19. Germany, 11 December. A trumpeter plays in front of the Christmas tree during the "Mountain Parade" while it is snowing in Seifen.

20. Maine, 5 December. The 11th annual "Santa Sunday" in Newry, where snowboarders and skiers dress up as Santa. Everyone who comes dressed as Santa Claus gets a free lift ticket or if they donate to a charity event that takes place at the Bethel Rotary Club - $10.

21. Jornie Skyersky of Fort Worth, Texas, chooses his new bike during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony at Texas Motor Speedway on Dec. 7. Texas Air Systems, Chalmer McWilliams, Childrens Charities provided 100 children with new bikes.

22. A group of 100 foreigners, which participates in the event "SantaCon", disperses the Chinese police on Tiananmen Square, Beijing, December 11. Such events are now held in all countries of the world, but Santa Clauses were driven out of this square.

24. Joanna Heller, dressed in an angel costume at the opening ceremony of the old market in Nuremberg, recites the traditional monologue, Germany, November 26. The first memories of this market were recorded in 1628.

26. State of California, Menlo Park, 9 December. Demonstration of the importance of fire safety measures, fire from a fireplace in a special room. The Fire Safety Demonstration is held annually by the Menlo Park Fire Department in an attempt to warn people of the risk of fire during the New Year holidays.

27. A walrus, whose name is Nuka, eats his birthday cake, New York Aquarium, Brooklyn, December 6. This cake is healthy and delicious.

28. A man dressed as the Norwegian Santa Claus - Yulenissen, paints matryoshka dolls, Moscow, December 7.

29. Workers site Amazon.co.uk, which has an office in Swansea, Wales, England, are preparing for a difficult holiday season, 26 November. This Amazon branch is one of the largest of the six existing in the UK, its area is 800,000 square meters. ft.

31. Liverpool, 5 December. Marathon runners dressed as Santa Clauses. Every year thousands of disguised Santa Clauses run through the streets of the city on a 5-kilometer route.

32. A woman checks on a Christmas decoration garlands, next to her sleeping her son in a stall on a street in Manila, December 11. One of the longest Christmas seasons in the world is celebrated by the Filipinos, they start on December 16th and end in January at Epiphany.

33. Christians at the stadium "Gelora Bung Karno" during a Christmas service with candles, Jakarta, December 11. For this service, one hundred thousand Christians gathered at the largest stadium in the capital of Indonesia.

34. Alaska, 5 December. A tree adorned with toys and remote-controlled battery lights is being built near Palmer on the Glenn Highway.

35. Will Shakespeare, Taunton glassblower makes at Shakspeare Glass and Gallery glass balls, England, 10 December. Somerset glassblowers make no more than 100 marbles a day.

36. The oldest Christkindlsmarkt in Germany. A man sets up miniature models of houses, Nuremberg, November 26.

37. Cheektowag, New York, Dec. 5 Emma Mair hugging Santa Claus at Macy's.