The meaning of staying up late on New Year's Eve:

1. Older people staying up late on New Year's Eve means "bidding farewell to the old year", which means cherishing time. Young people staying up late on New Year's Eve is to extend the life of their parents.

2. The traditional way of staying up all night is to stay up all night until dawn the next day. Nowadays, people can usually go to bed after 12 o'clock.

Shou Sui is also called staying up late, lighting up the fire, staying up late, staying up late, etc. It is one of the annual customs. It was first recorded in the Western Jin Dynasty. To this day, people are still used to doing it before New Year's Eve. Staying up late at night to welcome the New Year; Influenced by China, people in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and other Southeast Asian countries have the tradition of keeping up the New Year's Eve on New Year's Eve.

What are the customs of staying up late:

1. Eating New Year’s Eve dinner: The family sits together to eat New Year’s Eve dinner. There are usually two things on the table: one is hot pot, and the other is fish. Hot pot means that it is prosperous, and fish symbolizes "abundance for good luck" and "abundance every year".

2. Rent a hole and burn lanterns to illuminate the New Year: that is, light lanterns and candles all over the New Year's Eve. In addition to lighting lanterns and candles in all the houses, they also light lanterns and candles specially under the bed. After such lighting, they will It will enrich your family's wealth in the coming year.

3. Stepping on the New Year: stick sesame stalks with ingot-shaped rolls made of yellow paper and pile them into a bundle, which is called a "treasure bowl"; then, the whole family will crush it with their feet and borrow sesame seeds. The blooming flowers are auspicious, wishing prosperity for the family, and expressing blessings and hopes for the new year.

4. Eating dumplings, glutinous rice balls, and rice cakes: Northerners are accustomed to eating dumplings. White flour dumplings are shaped like ingots, which symbolizes "making a fortune in the new year, and ingots roll in." Southerners are accustomed to eating glutinous rice balls in a sedan chair, which symbolizes The family is harmonious and auspicious; eating rice cakes symbolizes growing taller year by year.