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What is the moral of celebrating the New Year?

The moral symbol of celebrating the New Year is to cherish time and pray for longevity.

Chinese New Year means "Chinese New Year Festival", and now it is called "Spring Festival". The main contents of New Year greetings are to bid farewell to the old, worship ancestors, exorcise evil spirits and pray for a new year. The form is rich and colorful, lively and festive, and the annual flavor is rich, which embodies the essence of traditional culture of Chinese civilization.

The symbolic meaning of keeping New Year's Eve is to cherish time and pray for longevity, which is a very important traditional folk custom. To this day, people still choose to observe on New Year's Eve every year, and the family sit up and chat, waiting for the first day of the new year.

The significance of celebrating the new year.

The custom of observing the age is also called "observing the age", and people have the habit of observing the age on New Year's Eve. Keeping the old year is the custom of staying up late to welcome the new year on the last night of the old year. Also known as New Year's Eve, the common name is "Enduring the Year".

In ancient times, observing the age has two meanings: the old man's observing the age means "resigning from the old", which means cherishing time; Young people keep their age in order to prolong the life of their parents. Since the Han Dynasty, the time for the alternation of the old and new years is generally at midnight. On New Year's Eve, men, women and children will be brightly lit and get together to watch the New Year. Therefore, observing the age is one of the customs of the Spring Festival.