Where in the New Year light and fire are lit?

In India, the New Year is called the Festival of Lights or Lights. Women paint on the floor with colored crayons, spread magnificent patterns with flour and sand, and then decorate them with burning candles.
Hindus call the New Year: Diwali. It is celebrated not in January but in October or November.

On New Year's Eve, residents of Ecuador burn a scarecrow that symbolizes the old year.

Who celebrates the New Year with a terrible noise?

In China, the celebration of the New Year begins with a terrible noise: people beat the drums, launch fireworks, arrange costumed processions. The Chinese believe that the noise will drive away the bad things that happened in the past and bring good luck next year. The Chinese celebrate their New Year in 15 days. Chinese New Year falls at the end of January - beginning of February.

Who in the New Year blows a horn?

The celebration of the Jewish New Year - Rosh Hashan - begins with the clergy blowing a curved ram horn. So they invite people to the synagogue to pray to God and ask him for forgiveness for all the bad things they did in the past year. Then next year they will be able to do only the good.

Rosh Hashan is celebrated in October or November. On this day, people eat apples and bread, sprinkled with honey, in the hope that next year life will be sweet - like honey.