What festival is Christmas Eve equivalent to in China?

Christmas Eve is equivalent to New Year's Eve in China. Let's introduce the New Year's Eve dinner:

1, New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve, a traditional festival in China. It refers to the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month (February 29th of the lunar calendar), which is the last day of the year. It is also called "New Year's Eve", commonly known as New Year's Eve. On this day, there are many ancient folk activities, such as wrapping jiaozi, eating New Year's Eve, burning gold paper, setting off firecrackers and celebrating the New Year.

Step 2: keep your age

The trend of observing the age rose in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and many scholars in the Liang Dynasty had poems about observing the age. "One night for two years, five hours for two years." People light candles or oil lamps and keep vigil all night, which symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck in the new year. This custom has been handed down from generation to generation.

Keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve is one of the most important activities, and the custom of keeping the Lunar New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest record can be found in the Local Records of the Western Jin Dynasty: on New Year's Eve, all parties give gifts to each other, which is called "the year of giving back"; Wine and food are invited, which is called "not old"; Young and old get together to drink and wish a complete song called "age division"; Everyone stays up all night, waiting for dawn. This is the so-called "shou sui".

3. Reunion night

The 30 th night of the twelfth lunar month is called "New Year's Eve", also called "New Year's Eve", which is a day for family reunion. Relatives from other places came all the way home to reunite with their relatives and friends. At night, every household lights up (some even light the graves in the yard and fields) and sets off firecrackers, which is called vigil. Otherwise, it will change or be unlucky in a year.

The main activity of observing the Year is to protect Jiaozi. The family sat together in the city. Rolling noodles, stuffing, laughing and beaming. The newly married daughter-in-law "went back to her hometown", steamed 20 big gift packages and brought 4 big gifts (sugar, cigarettes, wine and snacks) to visit her parents. She returned the same day and did not live at her parents' home.

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