Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional stories - Eating Dumplings and Watching Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve Translated in English

Eating Dumplings and Watching Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve Translated in English

Eating dumplings and watching Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve.

New Year's Eve is the evening of the last day of the year on the lunar calendar, the night before the Spring Festival. The twelfth month of the lunar calendar is mostly a big month with thirty days, so it is also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, New Year's Night, and New Year's Day and Night. And when December is a small month for the twenty-ninth day, some regions will also be renamed two nine all night.

The original meaning of the character "除" in "除夕" is "去", which is derived as "易", i.e., alternation. The original meaning of the character "夕" is "sunset", which is derived as "night". Therefore, "New Year's Eve" contains the old year to the next evening and remove, tomorrow that is another new year of meaning.