What activities are there on New Year’s Day?

New Year's Day activities:

1. Eating dumplings

Eating dumplings on New Year's Day flourished in the north during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day became popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. Volume 2 of the "Scenery of the Imperial Capital" in the late Ming Dynasty records that on the New Year's Day of the first lunar month, "we eat jujube cakes and rice cakes every day". "Wei County Chronicle" during the Jiajing period in Hebei Province in the north said that "steamed sheep cake" was eaten locally.

2. Drinking pepper and cypress wine

Already appeared in the "Four People's Monthly Order" of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Jiao refers to Zanthoxylum bungeanum. The ancients said that Jiaojiao is the essence of the Yuheng star. It has a fragrant smell and makes people feel light and resistant to old age. Cypress refers to cypress leaves. The ancients regarded it as a fairy medicine that can prevent all kinds of diseases. Pepper and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can cure diseases and live longer. Drinking pepper and cypress wine has been handed down among the people. This custom was practiced in Licheng, Shandong and Jiaxing, Zhejiang during the Ming Dynasty.

3. Drink peach soup

That is, boil the leaves, branches, and stems of peach and drink it. The ancients regarded peaches as the essence of the five elements, which can suppress evil spirits. To control hundreds of ghosts, drink it. Eating soup cakes: In ancient times, wheat flour products were boiled in water. Soup cakes are noodles. In the Song Dynasty, it was popular to eat noodles and other foods on New Year's Day.

The origin of New Year's Day:

New Year's Day refers to the first day of the year in the Christian era. January 1 of each year is New Year's Day. "Yuan" means the beginning, and "Dan" means the beginning. Day, that is, "the day we first met, the first day of the new year."

New Year’s Day is the beginning of celebrating the New Year. Celebrating New Year’s Day can be said to be a New Year’s Day custom in various countries and regions around the world. In our country, New Year’s Day is also included as a statutory holiday with three consecutive days off. In fact, many countries Consider this day a legal holiday.