The New Year's Day is celebrated in a separate style in Ecuador. The celebration starts from the very day of Christmas and ends after the arrival of the new year's day. The specialty of the Ecuadorian Celebration of new year's day is, every country celebrate the arrival of the new year but the people of Ecuador celebrates to say goodbye to the old year.
All the people, from the young ones to the elderly ones, believe in some magical traditionsof Ecuador . They make a miniature of branch house and burn it into ashes. This is a symbolism of burning all the bad or unfaithful deeds done by the people and apologizing for these from the almighty god. Not only the branch houses, some of the dwellers also make the dolls out of straw-dust and burn it. All these magical traditions of Ecuador resembles warding-off the bad memories and works of the old year.
This is an unique way of new year's celebration. On one hand the celebration of farewell to the old year and on the other hand the arrival of the new year, both the celebration covers the whole last month of the year. The real celebration takes place on the last day of the year. There are ways of celebrating 31st December. Those are:
- Different kinds of ideas are taken as to make some type of creations, like: dummies or any painting. The best one is awarded with the 1st prize.
- These types of creations are mainly drawn from any negative idea of the year that made an bad impact on the mind of the citizens.
- At the midnight, all types of fireworks are done, which looks awesome and eye-catching. Tourists from places visit the place to have the view of the firework.
Therefore, it is very clear that the Ecuadorian new year's day is one of its own kind.
