Happy new year?

There are no fixed days for a happy New Year. The old year has passed and the new year has arrived. The specific time can be from the New Year's Day to the fifteenth day of the first month, or it can be said that it is a month in the first month, and it is a New Year's greeting.

Celebrating the beginning of the New Year is a common custom in all countries and regions in the world. People in any country in the world are full of good hopes for the new year. Because different countries and regions have different historical culture, religious beliefs and national customs, they all have their own different customs to celebrate the New Year. On this day, people all over the world welcome the New Year in their unique and unique ways.

Legend of the new year

Shounian, also known as Shounian Fire and Zhaonian, has a long history. Han people in China have the habit of observing the New Year's Eve, commonly known as "Nian". This is the custom of not sleeping on the last night of the old year and staying up late to welcome the new year. Also known as New Year's Eve, the common name is "Endure the Year". Exploring the origin of this custom, there is an interesting story among the people:

In ancient times, there was a fierce monster scattered in the mountains. People call them nian. Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, and it specializes in eating birds, animals and insects. It changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian".

Later, people gradually mastered the activity law of Nian, which went to crowded places to taste fresh food every 365 days. The time of its appearance was after dark, when the rooster crowed at dawn, and it returned to the mountains.

After determining the date of the ravages of 2008, people regarded this terrible night as a gateway, and came up with a set of methods to close the New Year's Day: every family cooked dinner in advance, turned off the fire, cleaned the stove, then tied up all the stalls in the henhouse, sealed the front and rear doors of the house and hid in the house for New Year's Eve dinner.

The meal was very rich because of its ominous significance. In addition to having dinner with the whole family to show harmonious reunion, we should also worship our ancestors before eating and pray for their blessing to spend the night safely. No one dares to sleep after dinner, so they huddle together to chat and be brave. Gradually formed the habit of not sleeping on New Year's Eve.

The trend of observing the age rose in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and many scholars in the Liang Dynasty had poems about observing the age. "One night for two years, five hours for two years." People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck in the new year. This custom has been handed down from generation to generation.