Chinese New Year's Eve: Celebrate the new and old years together, and welcome a night

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Time is continuous, and festivals divide the stretch of time into sections. Unlike other festivals, which have only one day, the New Year is a time slot. From the eighth day of the first lunar month, "after the eighth year is the year", through the small year, the big year, the first day of the first year, the day of the people, to the end of the Lantern Festival, more than a month before and after, the climax is the big Chinese New Year's Eve, that is, the Chinese New Year's Eve.

The big year is commonly known as the Chinese New Year's Eve, some months in the lunar calendar are thirty days, and some months are only twenty-nine days, for example, this year is the twenty-ninth lunar month, but it is still called "Chinese New Year's Eve". "Year", "Shuowen Jiezi" is interpreted as "gu ripe also", five grains are ripe every year, so it is used to represent the year. Su Shi's poem said, "I have felt that nothing has happened in this life, and this year is still a great year." "Great year" means great harvest.

The year ends on the last day and the last day ends in the night, so Chinese New Year's Eve is of course extremely important. The original meaning of "division" is "step", and the Zhu Zi Family Training says that "at dawn, the court is swept away". Walking up a step, you leave the front step, so there is the meaning of replacement and removal, and the "division" of "Chinese New Year's Eve" is this meaning.

The Western Jin Dynasty's converted Zhou Chu wrote a "Record of Customs and Soils", which recorded that "the customs of Shu, the years and evenings and the feeding questions, are called feeding the years." Wine and food are invited, for other years. Until Chinese New Year's Eve, Dadan does not sleep, which is called keeping the age. It can be seen that the saying "Chinese New Year's Eve" and the customs of worshiping the New Year, Chinese New Year's Eve meals, and keeping the age have existed for nearly two thousand years.

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In traditional festivals, Chinese New Year's Eve and clarity are permeated with many sentimentalities. Qingming is a wounded death, Chinese New Year's Eve is a wound to oneself. "People's girls have flowers to wear, and your father and I can't buy them if they have less money." Pulling on the two-foot red-headed rope, I tied it up for Xi'er. "Not only Yang Bailao, but also the poor people are not very happy in the New Year. Treating the family to spend money, the human love elements to spend money, the debt repayment is also based on the New Year as the deadline, the New Year is not the same as passing the customs? Therefore, there is a saying of "year pass".

The year also has to pass the psychological barrier. While the children cheered that they had grown up by one year, the adults all felt that they were a year older. Look at the poems written by the literati of the past generations in the Chinese New Year's Eve, "The original heart is generous, the white head is still stumbling", "His life is geometric, and he has suddenly died", "He is worried about the new sorrow and adds white hair, and the sideburns are like snow reflecting the cold flowers", "The Ming Dynasty has taken pity on the mirror, and the sideburns have not yet entered the New Year", "The vast rivers and lakes are white-haired, and the boat is waiting for youth", "The wine is cold and fragrant, and the dream is not successful, forcing people to feel that the age is magnificent"... The fear of the years, usually do not feel, at this time it is all in the mind.

Chinese New Year's Eve people who are wandering away are even more upset. "Ten years of jianghai guests, isolated houses and people" "foreign land is a nostalgic plan, spring grass is the heart of the next year". The great poet Gao Shi wrote: "The cold lights of the hotel do not sleep, and the guest's heart turns miserable. Hometown tonight thinking of thousands of miles, frost sideburns Ming Dynasty another year. You know, this is a high-spirited era, the poet is still wild and unrestrained, arrogant and dry, "do not worry about the road ahead, ignorant of yourself, no one in the world knows the king" how heroic and free.

It's sad every year.

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As the biggest festival of the year, Chinese New Year's Eve should still be joyful. After Tang Taizong Li Shimin's "Keeping the Year" laid out the luxurious atmosphere of welcoming the new in the palace, he wrote the resignation of Chinese New Year's Eve the old and welcoming the new in such a joyful and peaceful way with two sentences: "Celebrate the new and old years together, and welcome the new night". After all, it is the Ming Emperor of the ages, after all, it is the Dynasty of all nations.

For ordinary people, ancestor worship and Chinese New Year's Eve meals are joyful. Don't forget the road when you came, the ancestor worship of Chinese New Year's Eve is very solemn, and the solemn ceremony is more than the remembrance itself. Chinese is simple, but whether rich or poor, the Chinese New Year's Eve and rice after the ancestor worship should do their best, and the chicken, duck and fish meat fans should be thousands of pieces... One year, my father borrowed money to buy a pound of pork, did not dare to take the road, detoured to the field, or was found by the production captain and confiscated it on the grounds that he owed money. Not eating a little meat in the New Year is a knot in my father's heart that he did not put down until his old age, and he felt that the head of the family was ashamed of his family. Now it is said that the taste of the New Year is light, partly a good thing, because the usual days are well-off.

Fifty years ago, there was no such strange idea as Dink, the dolls were overcrowded, and after dinner, everyone had an oil-paper lantern, loaded candles, and flocked to the door to beg for sugar and melon seeds. But the wah-wah-wah cry would sound at any moment, and the snow was slippery, and which unlucky egg wrestled and burned the lantern. After a few wow sounds, it was too late to be sad, so I quickly got up and continued to visit the door. In the middle of the night, go home and collect the money. When I was a kid, I didn't have more than a dollar. Cover under the pillow for a few days, and pay tuition when school starts. At this time, my sister has prepared new clothes, new shoes, new socks for me... At my father's urging, I fell in love with going to bed and waking up to the new year.

"Since then, the East Wind has no leisure, and it has been new overnight." All the unpleasantness will pass with the old age, let's welcome the new year with open arms! (Han Kesheng)