New Year's Eve is 30 years old, which is also called "New Year's Eve". This day is a day for people to eat, drink, play and have fun. Northerners make jiaozi, while southerners make rice cakes. Dumplings are shaped like "Yuanbao" and rice cakes sound like "Niangao", which are good signs of good luck. On New Year's Eve, the whole family has a "reunion dinner" together, which smells like family reunion for the New Year. When having a reunion dinner, the "fish" on the table can't be moved, because this fish represents "abundance" and "surplus every year", symbolizing "wealth and luck" in the coming year. It belongs to a decoration and can't be touched. There is another legend about the origin of nian. According to legend, in ancient times, our ancestors were threatened by one of the fiercest beasts. This beast is called Nian. It catches all kinds of animals for food. In winter, when food is scarce in the mountains, it will break into villages and hunt people and livestock, and the people will be in a state of panic all day. People have struggled with Nian for many years, and it has been found that Nian is afraid of three things, red color, fire and noise. So in winter, people hang red mahogany boards on their doors, burn fires at the door, stay up all night and knock. That night, "Nian" broke into the village, saw that every family had red and firelight, heard the deafening noise, and was so scared that he ran back to the mountains and never dared to come out again. As the night passed, people congratulated each other and celebrated the victory by decorating, drinking and feasting. In order to commemorate this victory, every family will stick red paper couplets on their doors, light lanterns, beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers and fireworks at this time in winter. At night, vigil all night; The next day, I congratulated each other early in the morning. This has been handed down from generation to generation, and it has become the "New Year". The climax of New Year's Eve is that the elders give out "lucky money" after the New Year's dinner. Next, post Spring Festival couplets and door gods, and close the door. I didn't open the door until the morning of the first day of junior high school. Next, the whole family stays up until the early hours of the morning. The lights on New Year's Eve never go out all night, commonly known as "light years". The customs of New Year's Eve in different places are roughly the same, but some places have their own characteristics, such as Suzhou, Beijing and Taiwan Province. On New Year's Eve in Suzhou, everyone has to wait for the loud bell coming from Fengqiao Hanshan Temple. When the bell passes through the dark night and reaches thousands of families, it marks the arrival of the new year. No matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, the bell will ring in Hanshan Temple at midnight every day, which is called "Minute Night Minute" by the people. This clock has become the time information of people's life for dozens of miles in Fiona Fang, Suzhou. The bells of Hanshan Temple still appear in poems, and the most popular one is a night-mooring near maple bridge by Zhang Ji, a poet in the Tang Dynasty: frosty night, Jiang Feng, fishing and sleeping. The lonely cold mountain temple in the city outside the city of Suzhou, the sound of the bell ringing in the middle of the night passed to the passenger ship. Now, every year on New Year's Eve, Hanshan Temple in Suzhou still follows the ancient custom that never changes, and the bell strikes in minutes. In the urban and rural areas of Gusu, at the last moment of the year, the bells of Hanshan Temple will be heard from the radio to report the beginning of the year. Thousands of families, hearing the bells and firecrackers, have made the bell of the ancient Hanshan Temple a symbol of the times. Beijing's New Year's Eve is even more busy, offering sacrifices to ancestors, receiving gods and receiving stoves. At the beginning of the ceremony to worship the gods and ancestors, the whole city of Beijing was drowned in a deafening sound of firecrackers. People still spread sesame stalks in their own yard, and the whole family steps on them, which is called "stepping on the old" and means long life. On New Year's Eve, lights are on all night, and people resign and keep their old age. When the New Year's bell rings, jiaozi of all families also cooks, and people enjoy themselves. New Year's Eve is not called New Year's Eve in Taiwan Province, but "Chinese New Year's Day". In the afternoon, offer sacrifices in front of the shrine in the hall. In the evening, the family burned incense and bowed down, and then said goodbye to the elders. Then there is the "surround the stove", that is, a sumptuous New Year's Eve dinner. The family sits around a table, which is full of dishes and a brazier is placed under it. "Surrounding the stove" brings a climax to New Year's Eve. Wanderers who are far away from home must go home for reunion no matter how busy they are, unless absolutely necessary. After the New Year's Eve, they burn candles to keep the old age. Daughter-in-law adds longevity to their elders. They can't go to bed early. The longer they sit, the longer their elders will live. This shows filial piety.