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What are some of the customs in the ancient poems on New Year's Day?

There are firecrackers, drinking tusu wine and sticking peach symbols (now called sticking spring couplets).

Original text:

On New Year's Day

The year ends with firecrackers, and the spring breeze brings warmth to Tu Su.

A thousand doors and tens of thousands of tels,

Always changing the new peach for the old one.

Notes:

(1) Yuanzhi: the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, i.e. Spring Festival.

(2) firecrackers: the ancient people burned bamboo to make the bamboo burst the loud sound. Used to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, and later evolved into firecrackers. A year in addition: a year is over. In addition, passed away.

(3) Tusu: "refers to Tusu wine, drinking Tusu wine is also an ancient New Year's custom, on the first day of the New Year, the whole family drank this wine soaked with Tusu grass to drive away evil spirits and avoid plague, and to seek longevity.

(4) Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of households: describing the numerous portals and dense population. 曈: bright and warm at sunrise.

(5) Peach: Peach talisman, an ancient custom in which people wrote the names of two deities, Shentian and Yubi, on peach boards on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar and hung them next to the door to suppress evil spirits. Also made of spring couplets.