5 Christmas traditions from around the world

1. Christmas chicken
Christmas is almost a festival of food, and in Japan, it seems that all Christmas food is KFC. As soon as Christmas comes, people go to KFC, a fast-food restaurant chain in the United States, and line up to buy chicken drumsticks. As the saying goes, "Christmas is equal to KFC" (Translator's Note: This is KFC in the 1970s. People think about the slogan inspired by eating turkey at Christmas). This tradition originated in 1974. In order to increase sales at Christmas, KFC launched a series of marketing activities to attract everyone to spend. To this day, the highest annual sales of KFC is still on Christmas Eve.

2. Christmas lucky numbers
Since the end of the 19th century, the Spanish National Lottery has announced the largest amount of winnings in a year on Christmas Eve, called "El Gordo" or "The Fat One". And this matter has become a large-scale social event for the entire country. Usually, on December 22nd, people will gather together with lottery tickets, hoping to be the winners. Traditionally, this winning number was sung by a choir composed of 22 students. At this time, perhaps the people of the entire country will all stand and look forward to this life-changing Christmas gift.

3. Christmas wood
In Norway, Christmas means you have to hide the mop or broom at home, not because people don’t like cleaning, but because the Norwegians are a bit superstitious. They want to resist the invasion of monsters and monsters. They think ghosts will be safe. Come to the earth at night, steal brooms and mops from people's homes, and ride in the sky.

4. Broom and mop
From mid-November to Christmas, you can experience the traditional Vienna December Christmas Market (also known as Krippenmarkt), which dates back to 1298. The Christmas market in Augsburg’s Rathausplatz has 150 stalls, neatly arranged like a calendar. You can take the Christmas train (Christkindle Express) to shuttle around the city and taste the hot and spicy Vienna Christmas drink-Punch (Weihnachtspunsch), made from wine, brandy or gin, and add warm fruits to enhance the sweetness . Let us cheer for Christmas in Vienna!

5. Christmas spider
Believe it or not, there is a "Christmas spider". In Ukraine, the Christmas tree is decorated with spider webs, don’t be afraid, it’s just a decoration made very much like a real spider web, which is said to bring them good luck. This is actually derived from a distant legend. There was a very poor woman who had no money to decorate the Christmas tree. After she woke up the next day, she found that the Christmas tree at home was covered with spider webs, and it was glittering in the sun. , Very beautiful. In addition to other countries, like Poland and Germany, people think that as long as you find a spider or spider web on your Christmas tree, you will have good luck in the coming year.