When was New Year's Eve handed down from ancient times?

From which period in ancient times did New Year's Eve come down?

The custom of observing the age originated in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. According to Zonggu's record of Jingchu's age, at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a custom of keeping watch for the New Year's Eve and eating New Year's Eve.

The history of guarding the old age

The Chronicle of the Middle Qin Dynasty at the Age of Years contains: "There were no words in the three generations of ancient books until Du Fu's poem" Keeping the Year at Home "in the Tang Dynasty, and it was suspected that" keeping the Year at Axian's house, the pepper plate has sung flowers "began in the Tang Dynasty." There are many descriptions of observing age customs in Tang poetry. Bai Juyi's poem "Stay in the Year" says: "Stay in the Year without wine, and homesickness is full of tears." Meng Haoran has a poem, "Continue to draw candles, and then have a long banquet in the old days". In the Song Dynasty, the concept of providing for the aged spread all over urban and rural areas. Su Dongpo's "Children are strong and don't sleep, and they are happy at night" describes the scene of keeping old. "Dream in Tokyo" records: "On New Year's Eve ... the house of scholarly books, sitting around the stove, is called longevity." Interestingly, in Japan, Vietnam, Thailand and so on. Due to the influence of China, there is a saying of observing the old age on New Year's Eve, and even in Europe, America and Africa, there are similar customs. As the saying goes, "gold is easy to get, but youth is hard to stay." Love life and cherish time, which may be the reason why the whole world keeps aging! Xi Qi Zhen said in the poem "Keeping the Year": "Invite Ashan's family to keep the Year, and the wax torch will turn to ashes in Bisha, Anh Hong; Thirty-six years have passed, and I cherish the years since this night. " Is an example.

Stick to the old legend

In ancient times, there was a wild animal scattered in the deep mountains and forests. People call them nian. Its appearance is ferocious, its nature is ferocious, and it specializes in eating birds, animals and insects. It changes its taste every day, from kowtowing insects to living people, which makes people talk about "Nian". After determining the date when the Year Festival raged, people regarded this terrible night as a gateway, called the Year Festival, and came up with a whole set of methods to close the Year Festival: every family cooked dinner in advance on this night, turned off the fire and cleaned the stove, tied up all the cowpeas in the chicken coop, sealed the front and rear doors of the house, then lit a fire and cooked a lot of cypress branches to drive away the taste of the Year and ward off evil spirits, and then hid in it.

The modern custom of staying up all the year round.

On this night of "two years old in one night, two years old in class five", families get together and get together. The family sat together and the table was full of tea and fruit. In the new year, a large plate of apples is indispensable, which is called "Ping An". In the north, some families will provide a pot of rice, which was cooked years ago and provided for China New Year. It's called "annual meal", which means that there are leftovers every year, which can't be eaten all year round, and this year we still eat the grain of the previous year. This bowl of New Year's Eve dinner is usually cooked with rice and millet. As the saying goes in Beijing, it is called "two rice" because it is yellow and white. This is called "golden rice with gold and silver, gold and silver everywhere". In many places, cakes, melons and fruits are prepared to win a lucky one: eating dates (spring comes early), persimmons (all the best), almonds (gratifying), longevity fruit (immortal) and rice cakes (getting higher every year). On New Year's Eve, the family ate happily, talking and laughing. Some vulgar families push pai gow, roll dice, bet on stud and play mahjong, and the noise of laughter and laughter has become the climax of New Year's Eve. The all-night vigil symbolizes driving away all evil diseases and epidemics and looking forward to good luck in the new year.