Which holiday is the poem of Yuan Day talking about

Yuan Day, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, is the Spring Festival. Therefore, Wang Anshi's "Yuan Day" describes the Spring Festival. The poem "Yuanzhi" describes the customs of the traditional festival (Spring Festival), such as setting off firecrackers, drinking tusu wine, and putting up spring scrolls and door gods.

On New Year's Day (Song) Wang Anshi

The firecrackers are bursting as the year ends, and the spring breeze brings warmth into the Tu Su wine.

A thousand doors and tens of thousands of tels, always changing the new peach for the old one.

Word Notes

Yuan Ri: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, i.e. Spring Festival.

Bakudo: the bursting sound made by burning bamboo in ancient times. It was used to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, and later evolved into firecrackers.

One year removed: the year has come to an end.

Deleted: passed away.

Tusu: "refers to tusu wine. Drinking tusu wine was also an ancient New Year's custom: on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the whole family drank this wine infused with tusu grass in order to drive away evil spirits, avoid the plague, and seek longevity.

Teeel: the bright and warm look of sunrise.

Peach: Peach talisman, an ancient custom in which the names of two deities, Shentan and Yubi, are written on peach boards and hung next to the door on the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year to suppress evil spirits. It is also used as a spring scroll.

Thousand Doors and Ten Thousand Households: describes a large number of portals and a dense population.

Ancient Poem:

The old year was sent away and the new year was ushered in by the crackling sound of firecrackers. People welcomed the warm spring breeze and drank Tu Su wine with open arms. Every household was illuminated by the light of the sun, and every family took down the old peach talisman and replaced it with a new one on New Year's Day.