The custom of drinking in New Year.

Historically, drinking "spring wine" is a very popular Spring Festival culture. The ancients thought that before and after the Spring Festival, "the earth and the air are connected" was a good time to make wine and drink. There is a poem in the Book of Songs, "Spring wine is for this, and longevity helps eyebrows". Later, people often used the word "spring" as the name of wine. Drinking spring wine not only celebrates festivals, but also has the functions of exorcism and longevity.

As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, in order to celebrate the bumper harvest of the year and the arrival of the new year, the ancients gathered together with wine and lambs, raised horn cups and congratulated them in unison. Since then, it has opened a precedent for drinking in the New Year. By the Han Dynasty, "Nian" had been fixed as a legal holiday, and drinking during the Spring Festival had also become a trend.

The origin of festivals

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astrology, calendar and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the traditional festivals in ancient times were formed in the activities of the ancients choosing a day to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth, the grace of their ancestors and pray for evil spirits.

The early festival culture embodies the ancient people's humanistic spirit of advocating nature, the unity of man and nature, cautiously pursuing the future, and firmly thinking about the source; A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The origin and development of New Year's Day covers humanistic philosophy and natural laws.