Why did you stay up late on New Year's Eve?

Stay up late on New Year's Eve and call for sentry duty.

Commonly known as "endure the year." Han people have the habit of keeping watch on New Year's Eve. Watching the new year begins with eating New Year's Eve dinner. This New Year's Eve dinner should be eaten slowly, starting with lighting lanterns, and some families have to eat it until late at night.

On this night of "two years old in one night, two years old in class five", families get together and get together. The family sat together and the table was full of tea and fruit. In the new year, a large plate of apples is indispensable, which is called "Ping An". In the north, some families will provide a pot of rice, which was cooked years ago and provided for the New Year. It is called "annual meal", which means that there are leftovers every year, which can't be eaten all year round, and the food of the previous year is also eaten. This bowl of New Year's Eve dinner is usually cooked with rice and millet. As the saying goes in Beijing, it is called "two rice" because it is yellow and white. This is called "golden rice with gold and silver, gold and silver everywhere". In many places, cakes, melons and fruits are prepared to win a lucky one: eating dates (spring comes early), persimmons (all the best), almonds (gratifying), longevity fruit (immortal) and rice cakes (getting higher every year). On New Year's Eve, the family ate happily, talking and laughing.

Some ordinary families push pai gow, roll dice and bet on stallions, hoping for good luck in the New Year. This custom gradually became popular. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, wrote a poem "Shou Sui": "Cold words and winter snow, warm with spring breeze". To this day, people are used to celebrating the New Year's Eve. The custom of observing the old age not only includes the feeling of farewell and nostalgia for the fleeting time, but also expresses the good hope for the coming New Year.

The ancients wrote in the poem "Shousui": "Invite Shousui Arong's family to spread red to blue gauze with candles; Thirty-six years have passed, and I cherish the years since this night. " It is human nature to cherish the years, so Su Shi, a great poet, wrote a famous sentence: "Children should be happy together if they don't eat for a long time." Not singing morning chicken is even more daunting. "This shows the positive significance of New Year's Eve.