Is there a custom of keeping old age on New Year's Eve?

The folk custom of keeping New Year's Eve has a long history, which means that people turn on the lights all night on New Year's Eve. Keeping New Year's Eve is called "lighting up the New Year's Eve with lights", that is, it is said that this will enrich the family's wealth in the coming year. Keeping old also refers to family reunion on New Year's Eve and staying up late to welcome the Lunar New Year.

In ancient times, "observing the old age" had two meanings: observing the old age meant resigning the old and welcoming the new, and cherishing time; Young people keep their age in order to prolong the life of their parents. On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, eat New Year's Eve, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, waiting for the time to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. The all-night vigil symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck in the new year.

Precautions:

Moderate entertainment

During the Spring Festival, movies and TV programs are colorful, relatives and friends gather together for the New Year, and playing mahjong is enjoyable, which often breaks the established life rules of the elderly and is not good for their health. If all-night entertainment is more harmful, it will often excite the cerebral cortex, causing insomnia, mental stress and high blood pressure. It is suggested that the elderly should not break the biological clock and sleep and rest on time.

emotional stability

There are many happy events in the Spring Festival, such as friends and relatives reunited after a long separation, laughter and laughter in TV programs, which can easily make people excited, heart rate increases, blood flow increases, arteriolar spasm and blood pressure increases, leading to cerebral hemorrhage, angina pectoris or myocardial infarction. Therefore, the elderly must control their emotions.

Moderate drinking

Drinking wine, beer, rice wine or low-alcohol liquor when friends and relatives get together can add fun, increase holiday atmosphere and promote blood circulation, which is beneficial to the elderly. But eating too much is not good for the stomach, liver, heart, kidney and nervous system, and it is even more harmful to the elderly who already have blood pressure, heart, liver and kidney diseases.