What does it mean to add a piece of plum blossoms with drums and horns, and celebrate the New Year with joy at the fifth watch?

The plum blossoms on the drum and horns are added, and the New Year is celebrated with joy at the fifth watch. The meaning is:

"Listen to the music "Plum Blossoms Falling" played by the drum and horn instruments, and laugh on the night of New Year's Eve. Wish each other New Year's greetings and celebrate the New Year."

Full poem:

Jiawu New Year's Day

Kong Shangren in the Qing Dynasty

Xiao Shu's white hair is not full. Dian, staying up late and sleeping around the fire.

Cut the candles to dry up the late-night wine, and spend all your money to buy spring money.

Listening to the burning of firecrackers brings out the childlike innocence, but seeing the peach charms exchanged makes me feel happy.

The drums and horns add plum blossoms, and we celebrate the New Year with joy at the fifth watch.

Appreciation:

The first four sentences describe New Year's Eve, staying up by the fire and drinking and staying up all night. "Buying spring money" implies that the old year is gone and the new year is here. The last four sentences turn to New Year's Day

(The first day of the Lunar New Year was also called New Year's Day in ancient times). Light firecrackers, change peach charms, and listen to music. Happy New Year. Between the lines, the author's sincere childlike innocence pulsates. The whole poem "Jiawu New Year's Day" reflects the author's tranquility and joy after leaving officialdom.

About the author:

Kong Shangren (1648~1718), also known as Pinzhi and Jizhong, also known as Dongtang (recorded as Dongtang in Suiyuan Shihua), His nickname is Antang, and he calls himself a native of Yunting Mountain. A native of Qufu, Shandong Province, the 64th generation grandson of Confucius, a poet and opera writer in the early Qing Dynasty, inherited the Confucian ideological tradition and learning. He paid attention to etiquette, music, military, agriculture and other knowledge since childhood, and also After studying the music rhythm, I laid the foundation of musical knowledge for future opera creation.

The world compares him with Hong Sheng, the author of "The Palace of Eternal Life", and calls him "Hong in the South and Kong in the North".