Is New Year's Eve a traditional festival?

New Year's Eve is one of the traditional festivals in China. As a festival at the end of the year, New Year's Eve originated from the ancient custom of offering farewell to the old and offering sacrifices to ancestors at the end of the year. The date is1February 29 or 30 of the lunar calendar every year. On New Year's Eve, since ancient times, there have been customs such as staying up all night, keeping New Year's Eve, sticking door gods, putting up Spring Festival couplets, putting up New Year's pictures and hanging lanterns, which have been passed down to this day and last forever.

origin

New Year's Eve originated from the custom of banishment in the pre-Qin period. In the pre-Qin period, at the end of each year, a "big Nuo" ceremony was held to beat drums to drive away epidemic ghosts, which was called "banishment", and later it was called the day before New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve. New Year's Eve is New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve. [1] New Year's Eve is usually called New Year's Day, but in fact, due to the lunar calendar, the date of New Year's Eve may be the 30th or 29th of the twelfth lunar month, but in any case, it is the end of the lunar year.

record

According to Lu Chunqiu Ji, the ancients used drums to drive away the "plague god" on the day before the New Year, which is the origin of the "New Year's Eve" festival. It is said that the name "New Year's Eve" was first mentioned in historical books such as "Local Customs" written in the Western Jin Dynasty and early Zhou Dynasty.