What are the main activities and significance of New Year's Eve?

1. What activities are there to celebrate New Year's Eve? The custom of New Year's Eve has a history of nearly two thousand years in China. Zhou people in Jin Dynasty mentioned the customs of Sichuan. At the end of the year, people give each other New Year gifts, which is called "giving gifts to the New Year". Banquet with each other, calling "don't be old"; Staying up late on New Year's Eve is called "Shounian". This is the earliest record of the custom of observing the age. But at this time, it seems to be a local custom. After Sui and Tang Dynasties, it became a national custom in the same year.

2. What are the activities of posting Spring Festival couplets on New Year's Eve? Spring Festival couplets, also known as couplets, spring stickers, couplets and couplets, are a kind of couplets and a unique literary form. This pair of the world's earliest Spring Festival couplets, "Three Yang began to spread, and four orders began to open", was recorded on the Dunhuang suicide note unearthed in the Tibetan Sutra Cave in Mogao Grottoes, written by Liu in the Tang Dynasty in the eleventh year of Kaiyuan (723). The folk custom of sticking couplets on Spring Festival has been popular since Ming Dynasty, and the birthplace of this trend is Nanjing. Now people in Jiangnan pay attention to posting Spring Festival couplets on the morning of New Year's Eve.

3. What are the activities of offering sacrifices to ancestors on New Year's Eve? Sacrificing ancestors is the first important event on New Year's Eve. In many parts of our country, on this day, people will put rich meals and lit incense sticks at home, and parents will lead their children to worship. In some rural areas in the north, paper money is burned at home. No matter how you worship your ancestors, the most important purpose is to educate future generations to remember filial piety and never forget your ancestors at any time and place.

4. What are the activities on New Year's Eve? It is also an important custom for the whole family to have a reunion dinner together. As the most important traditional festival in China, the Spring Festival is a good opportunity for family reunion, especially as many people are getting busier and busier at work. Therefore, it is particularly important for children who are far away from home to have a reunion dinner with their parents on New Year's Eve.

The reunion dinner on New Year's Eve is also called New Year's Eve. According to Zonggu's records of Jingchu times, there was a custom of eating New Year's Eve dinner at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. In the past, families worked together and cooked a big dinner at home. Now, in order to save trouble, some families directly put the location of the New Year's Eve dinner in the hotel. No matter where you eat, the theme of reunion will not change.