As the saying goes, "Stay up for 30 nights and stay at home on New Year's Day", what does it mean?

China is a country with a history of 5,000 years, and there are many traditional cultures that have been passed down for thousands of years. Why don't we talk about it today? Thirty nights, the first day of the year? Its significance.

Stay up for thirty nights? That is to say, on New Year's Eve, families sit around, eat New Year's Eve, watch the Spring Festival Gala and stay up all night to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, which is what we are talking about now. This custom still exists in many rural areas. When staying up late, the lights are usually on at home, which symbolizes keeping all diseases out of the door and wishing the whole family good health and all the best in the new year.

On New Year's Eve, in addition to the custom of observing the new year, there is also the custom of setting off firecrackers. Generally, after twelve o'clock in the evening, every household will come out to set off firecrackers, make their own New Year's wishes and pray for all the best in the new year.

Say it again? On the first day of the year? New Year's Day is a good day for everyone to play. Everyone will put on new clothes and have a new image, and then go to relatives and friends' homes to pay New Year greetings and contact feelings. Therefore, the ancients were afraid that there was no one at home during the Spring Festival, so the old people would stay at home to entertain their relatives and friends who went home to celebrate the New Year, while the young people went out to play.

When young people spend most of their time out, in jiaozi, where a bag of money is cooked at home, young people have left the big group to worship, and they will return to China. At this time, it's the old man's turn to go out to pay a New Year call.

The ancients also burned incense at home to worship those dead ancestors. Under normal circumstances, from the 30th day of the first month to the 2nd day of the second month, the incense in the incense burner can't be broken, so it's a respect for ancestors to make the house smoky. Therefore, there must be someone at home to look after the house, so that the incense that is about to burn out can be replenished in time, and secondly, relatives who come to visit the New Year will not be shut out.