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Malu Cursino<\/strong>Live reporter<\/p>\n
In just over 30 minutes Brazil will enter 2026. And there, New Year’s Eve is big deal – as I’ve seen myself many times over the years.<\/p>\n
There are several traditions some Brazilians follow to welcome the new year, from wearing white clothes to jumping seven waves (if you are near a beach).<\/p>\n
Sported by religious and non-religious people, the tradition of wearing white clothes is widely adopted by worshipers who celebrate Iemanj\u00e1, a Yoruba deity known as the “Queen of the Sea”.<\/p>\n
As well as wearing white, those who worship Iemanj\u00e1 take flowers to the sea at the end of the year as offerings to give thanks for the year that’s passed.<\/p>\n
For others, including many Catholics or those with no religious beliefs, wearing white and going into the sea is about manifesting peace and harmony for the year ahead, rather than being linked to the deity.<\/p>\n
There’s also a tradition of wearing specific colours to “attract” different things for the new year. Although this is subjective, here’s what each colour symbolises:<\/p>\n
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- \n White <\/b>– peace<\/b>, harmony <\/b>and tranquillity<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Gold <\/b>– light <\/b>and richness<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Silver <\/b>– youthfulness<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Yellow <\/b>– enthusiasm <\/b>and joy<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Blue <\/b>– confidence<\/b> and stability<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Green <\/b>– growth<\/b>, renewal <\/b>and hope<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Brown <\/b>– solidity <\/b>and safety<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Black <\/b>– elegance <\/b>and power<\/b>\n <\/li>\n
- \n Red <\/b>– energy<\/b>, strength <\/b>and passion<\/b>\n <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What colour will you wear this New Year’s Eve?published at 02:29 GMT 02:29 GMT Malu CursinoLive reporter In…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-484094","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115818336623322599","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- \n Gold <\/b>– light <\/b>and richness<\/b>\n <\/li>\n