New year's Eve (Chu Xi)

The end of the year is the day to get rid of the old and make new ones at the end of the year. New year's Eve is the night of new year's Eve, which is connected with the beginning of the year (New Year). The old year ends at this time, and a new year begins the next day. Therefore, it is commonly thought that new year's Eve. As a festival at the end of the new year, new year's Eve originated from the custom of offering sacrifices to ancestors at the end of the year in ancient times. The day of new year's Eve is a traditional ancestor worship Festival. Ancient books say: "heaven and earth are the foundation of life; ancestors are the foundation of class." It means that heaven and earth are the foundation of life, ancestors are the foundation of our mankind, and ancestor worship is a custom of inheriting filial piety.

The earliest reference to the name "New Year's Eve" in the existing literature is the local scenery chronicle written by Zhou Chu of the Western Jin Dynasty. The day before New Year's Eve is also called Xiaodi, that is, xiaonianye; New year's Eve is a big division, that is, new year's Eve. In addition, according to "Lu's spring and autumn · Ji Dong Ji", the ancients used drum beating to expel the "ghost of epidemic disease" on the day before the new year. At the end of each year, a "big Nuo" ceremony was held to expel the ghost of epidemic disease. It is said that this was also one of the customs of the "New Year's Eve" festival at that time.

New year's Eve is usually called New Year's Eve, but in fact, due to the lunar calendar, the date of new year's Eve may be December 30 or December 29, but in any case, it is the end of the lunar year.

When new year's Eve comes, people celebrate the festival and harvest, bathe, change clothes and clean up to drive away epidemics and evil spirits. Folk taboos on New Year's Eve:

1. The word of blessing cannot be pasted upside down. The gate is the place to welcome the blessing, and the word of blessing should be pasted directly. The places where Fu characters are pasted upside down are generally water tanks and dustbins.

2. If your door is aimed at the door of your neighbor's house, be sure to hang two Chinese knots on the door frame outside your door to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages.

3. Avoid taking out sewage, garbage, sundries, sweeping, watering and defecating everywhere. It is said that such carelessness will splash on the gods. If the gods are angry, it will bring disaster to people.

4. No matter whether you are keeping watch or not, don't turn off the lights in the house. You should keep them on all night, which means that the future of the coming year is bright.

5. Remember to pay off the debt before the new year. If you have owed the new year, you can't come to collect the debt from the first to the fifth day of the new year.

6. Avoid saying unlucky words.

7. During the Chinese new year, fish is a necessary dish, which is called "surplus". When eating fish, you should leave your head and tail behind, which means that there is not only food and clothing, but also surplus in the coming year.

first day of first lunar month

——Wang Anshi

In the sound of firecrackers,

The spring breeze brings warmth to Tu su.

The days of thousands of families,

Always exchange new peaches for old ones.

Shou Sui

——Su Shi

If you want to know how old you are, you are like a snake in a gully.

The scales are half gone. Who can cover the meaning.

Kuang wants to tie his tail, although he knows how to do it frequently.

Children are forced to stay awake and enjoy each other at night.

If the morning chicken does not sing, it is more afraid to add Lao.

After sitting for a long time, the embers of the lamp fall, and I get up to see the Beidou slope.

There will be no year next year. I'm afraid my mind will be wasted.

Try your best tonight, young people can still boast.

Except night work

——Gao Shi

The cold light in the hotel doesn't sleep alone. What's the matter with the guest heart?

Hometown tonight thinking thousands of miles, frost temples, another year of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the night

——Wen Tianxiang

Heaven and earth fall in the air, and time goes by;

The end of the road is full of wind and rain, and the poor side is full of snow and frost.

Life goes with the years, and the body is forgotten with the world;

Wu Fu slaughters Su Meng and lights up the night.