{"id":254,"date":"2010-01-02T08:00:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T12:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=254"},"modified":"2018-12-18T11:08:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:08:37","slug":"una-tradizione-di-capodanno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/una-tradizione-di-capodanno\/","title":{"rendered":"Una Tradizione di Capodanno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">In Italy we have many different traditions for <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">la notte di Capodanno <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(New Year\u2019s Eve), but there is one in particular that has always appealed to what my husband might call \u2018the more destructive side of my nature\u2019! I\u2019m referring to the old custom of throwing broken or chipped crockery out of the window. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The symbolism behind this tradition is fairly obvious:\u00a0the symbolic\u00a0throwing away of bad things, or misfortune, and making a clean beginning with the birth of the new year. However, for us kids it was of course a fiesta of destruction in which we were allowed, indeed encouraged to unleash our natural tendency to break stuff. Throughout the year my mother used to save all the broken plates and cups, certainly not a difficult task in a household with four children, and <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">la notte di Capodanno a mezzanotte<\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\"> (on New Year\u2019s Eve at midnight) she would distribute the crockery between the four of us, open the back door and order us to smash it against the garden wall. It was probably the only order that we obeyed without hesitation and with immense pleasure! We were very lucky in that we lived in a detached house which had a tall wall surrounding the garden, so there was no risk of damage to people and property. The morning after, of course, we were not quite so enthusiastic to obey the order to go out and pick up <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">tutti i cocci <\/span><\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">(all the shards).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">This year it dawned on me that as I no longer live in the suburbs of a city in England I could finally revive this cherished tradition. I found a coffee cup with a broken handle (why don\u2019t they make them stronger?) and a matching chipped saucer, one piece of ammunition for me and one for my husband Geoff. Then bearing in mind the \u2018stringent\u2019 Italian Health and Safety Regulation (ha ha!), we used our neighbor\u2019s wall as a target. <\/span><\/span><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Che divertimento!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: medium\">Buon Anno a tutti!<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Italy we have many different traditions for la notte di Capodanno (New Year\u2019s Eve), but there is one in particular that has always appealed to what my husband might call \u2018the more destructive side of my nature\u2019! I\u2019m referring to the old custom of throwing broken or chipped crockery out of the window. 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