Peruvian New Year

Each member of the Peruvian family has a mission during the day of 31st of December.
The father will set about the refresh of the house’s facade: it must pass a coat of paint on exterior walls. As the family will begin a new year with a new home.
Sisters, Brothers, cousins are sent to into the fields to get some of wisp of straw. With this straw, young people manufacture the “muneco”, a large jumping jack that will burn at midnight. All worn clothes of the year cover the jumping jack. Two grapes represent the eyes and a stick for the pipe.
The mother is more active. Get u before the dawn, the mother has already started the housework. She empties all of the furniture in the living room and the kitchen, and will continue in other parts if she has the time. After emptying the furniture, she changes places of the furniture which permits to dislodge spiders. Women wash all the objects that were in the furniture and the father will take in the opportunity to repaint the walls of the room.
For the dinner, it is very important to prepare many ready cooked meal , there is abundance of food in this special day. And yet it is not unusual that the mother started the preparation of cooking only around 7 or 8pm.
There is a superstition: if people wear a color clothe during twelfth ring of midnight, people can receive the lucky in certain domain for the New Year. The yellow is for the money, Red for the love. In the same principle, if people want to travel during all the year, he takes a suitcase and run around block of houses at midnight.
These activities will occupy he entire family during the day of 31st December. The festivities will begin with twelve rings of midnight. People eat grapes. A grape at each ring of the clock. This is the starting signal to burn the jumping jack under tons of applause, as the very special “good bye” of the year ends. Children explode firecrackers. Around half past midnight, people will eat, drink, dance often until dawn. Some people will see friends, neighbors and then return to dance and drink with their families. This is the rule during the Peruvian new year, on January should be a sign of abundance and sharing.