The speaker shares various New Year's Eve superstitions and traditions from different people. Some of the shared superstitions include:
* Wearing colorful clothes to bring good fortune, with each color having a specific meaning (e.g. red for love, white for peace)
* Eating lentils for good luck
* Wearing underwear with a specific color to attract love or good fortune
* Stepping out with the left foot first at midnight to bring good luck for the year
* Hugging a pillow with a team's shield before a game for good luck
* Lighting candles to ward off evil spirits
* Not eating chicken on New Year's Eve because it "lags behind," but eating pork instead because it "moves forward"
* Picking up and putting on bracelets repeatedly for good luck
* Using tarot cards to predict the coming year
* Doing specific rituals or actions to bring good fortune, such as touching a "lucky tree" or putting pepper and honey in underwear
The speaker also shares personal anecdotes and embarrassing stories related to New Year's Eve superstitions, including reading a color calculation that predicted a romantic partner who didn't exist.
Here are the key facts from the text:
1. The speaker's maternal grandmother ate lentils under the table on New Year's Eve.
2. The speaker's mother climbed a tree to eat lentils on New Year's Eve.
3. The speaker's family looks at the Chinese horoscope on New Year's Day.
4. The speaker's family puts the animal of the Chinese horoscope under the tree on New Year's Day.
5. The speaker's aunt goes to the beach before midnight on New Year's Eve to poop in the sea.
6. The speaker's family has a tradition of wearing new clothes on New Year's Day.
7. The speaker's mother changes her clothes after the countdown on New Year's Eve.
8. The speaker's family has a tradition of drawing a name from a ballot box on New Year's Eve, and the person whose name is drawn has to get hit with egg cards.
9. The speaker's aunt has a habit of going on a diet at the beginning of the year.
10. The speaker's family believes that eating chicken on New Year's Eve will bring bad luck.
11. The speaker's family believes that eating pork on New Year's Eve will bring good luck.
12. The speaker's family has a tradition of calculating the color of New Year's Eve using math.
13. The speaker's maternal relatives calculate the color of New Year's Eve every year.
14. The color of New Year's Eve is believed to have a caption that explains what the year will be like.
15. The speaker's family believes that turquoise blue is a good color for New Year's Eve.