New Year's Eve, refers to the last day of the lunar year, the specific time is Lunar New Year's Eve 30 (or Lunar New Year's Eve 29), is China's most important traditional festival. Because of the uncertainty of the number of days in the Lunar month in China, some years are twenty-nine days, some years are thirty days, so some years do not have Lunar month thirty, Lunar month twenty-nine will be New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve, also known as Lunar New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, etc., is one of the most important traditional festivals of the Han Chinese. New Year's Eve is also the festival of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, the beginning of a new year, and the renewal of all things. Along with Qingming Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Chongyang Festival, it is a traditional Chinese festival of ancestor worship and a traditional cultural festival popular in the countries of the Han Chinese cultural circle.
What is the significance of New Year's Eve?
The word "除" in the Chinese character "除夕" means "to go" in its original meaning, which is extended to "to change", i.e. The word "除" in "除夕" means "to go", which is derived from "易", i.e., to alternate. The original meaning of the character "夕" is "when the sun sets", and the derived meaning is the night of the last day of the year, thus "New Year's Eve" contains the meaning of "the old year will end here, and tomorrow will be a new year".
--New Year's Eve vigil
Anciently, there are two meanings of vigilance, the elderly vigilance for the "resignation of the old year", there is the meaning of the treasure of time and light; young people vigilance is to extend the life of their parents. Since the Han Dynasty, the moment of transition between the old and the new year is usually the middle of the night. The "keep", that is, the passing of the old year has a feeling of attachment, but also to the upcoming New Year with the hope of meaning.
--New Year's Eve Dinner
The New Year's Eve Dinner is derived from the end-of-year ritual, which is a form of thanking the gods for their gifts throughout the year, in the form of end-of-year sacrifices, which naturally consist of harvested goods. This most sumptuous offering could only be enjoyed by the people after the gods and ancestors had used it. Therefore, before eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the first thing to do is to light candles, burn incense, firecrackers, led by the head of the family to the shrine of the gods of the sky, the earth, the king, the relatives, the master of the shrine to worship three kowtow, and sincerely pray to the gods of the sky, the earth, the king, the relatives, the master of the gods to bless the family peace and prosperity, and then the best of the New Year's Eve dinner offerings to the gods to eat first in order to show filial piety of the children and grandchildren, to thank the gods of the family's blessings, which is a full demonstration of the descendants of the prudent and filial first tradition, the goodness of all good first! This fully demonstrates the traditional virtues of the descendants to be prudent in the end of the year and to pay tribute to the gods for their blessings. New Year's dinner meal time the longer the better, symbolizing the "continuous flow of wealth", some ate to the next morning, the metaphor of "bright prospects". Customs in the New Year's Eve dinner there are three dishes are indispensable: one is a head and tail complete fish, symbolizing the annual surplus; two is a variety of balls, commonly known as round, symbolizing the reunion; three is a green leafy vegetables, symbolizing the clean and clean.
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