Is New Year's Eve a 24-solar term?

Twenty-four solar terms: beginning of spring, rain, sting, vernal equinox, Qingming, Grain Rain, Changxia, Xiaoman, Mangzhong, Summer Solstice, Slight Summer, Great Summer, beginning of autumn, Early Summer, White Dew, Autumn Equinox, Cold Dew, Early Frost, beginning of winter, Light Snow, Heavy Snow, Winter Solstice and Slight Cold. Although New Year's Eve is an important festival, it is not in the 24 solar terms.

Origin of the festival

As a festival at the end of the year, New Year's Eve originated from the ancient custom of resigning the old year to welcome the new year and offering sacrifices to ancestors. The earliest mention of the name "New Year's Eve" was "Local Records" written in the early Zhou Dynasty in the Western Jin Dynasty. Later, it was also called the day before New Year's Eve as a small farewell, that is, a small year; New Year's Eve is New Year's Eve, that is, New Year's Eve.

According to Lu Chunqiu and Dong Jiji, the ancients used drums to drive away the "plague ghost" on the day before the New Year, and held a "mourning" ceremony at the end of each year. It is said that drumming to drive away the ghosts of plague was also one of the customs of New Year's Eve at that time.

New Year's Eve is usually called New Year's Eve, but in fact, due to the lunar calendar, the date of New Year's Eve may be1February 30 or1February 29, but in any case, it is the end of the lunar year.