People all over the world mark the coming of a new year. They celebrate the New Year on different dates, and in different ways. Some ways are strange and unusual. But to people who celebrate this holiday, they do not seem strange.
In old Denmark, people threw all their broken dishes against their friends' doors! The family with the biggest pile on their doorstep had to invite everyone for refreshments.
Long ago, in Germany, young men prepared a gift of a wheel with a gold star in the middle, surrounded by apples on spikes. They would leave these wheels at their sweethearts' doors, fire their guns, and run away. If the girl caught up with the man, it meant that they would be married during the year.