New Year in Denmark is a very important occasion for the Danish people. People in the country celebrate New Year in Denmark with lots of pomp and gaiety. Fun and merrymaking are an integral part of New Year celebrations in Denmark. To celebrate the beginning of a year Danes party with loud claps, songs and dances. This is accompanied with showers of champagne and marzipan ring cake at New Year eve midnight.
The numerous New Year traditions in Denmark are observed to add more fun to the celebration and more importantly preserve the cultural heritage. The best thing about observing it rigorously is that the values and traditions are passed on to the future generation.
The New Year Eve night sky is illuminated with dazzling and noisy fireworks. To continue with the tradition of the early folks who practiced driving away the evil spirits by loud noises of fireworks the New Year celebrations are celebrated in a similar fashion.
Danes save old dishes throughout the year and throw them at the thresholds of the houses of friends and near ones. It is a good sign to find the entrance littered with old broken dishes. These broken dishes symbolize many friends and augur well for good relationship throughout the year.
The traditional New Year's Eve menu in Denmark consists of boiled cod, or stewed kale and pork. All these food items are supposed to bring good luck and happiness to the Danish people in the days following the New Year.
New Year in Denmark is marked by 2 important traditional events. One of this includes broadcast on television and radio every year on New Year's Eve the New Year Speech of the monarch and the other is striking of midnight stroke by the Town Hall Clock in Copenhagen.
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