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What is the meaning of the poem "New Year's Day"?

"New Year's Day" by Wang Anshi, Song Dynasty

The firecrackers sound a new year, and the spring breeze sends warmth into the tassel.

The first day of the year is the TEEEL of a thousand doors, and the new peach is always replaced by the old one.

In the sound of firecrackers, the old year was sent away and the new year was ushered in, and people welcomed the warm spring breeze and drank Tusu wine with open arms. Thousands of households are illuminated by the light of the rising sun, and every year the Spring Festival always takes the new Spring Festival couplets to replace the old ones.

This poem visualizes the renewal of all things by describing the lively and joyful atmosphere of the Spring Festival. The first line of the poem is closely related to the title, rendering the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival.

Yuanshi, or Spring Festival, is the grandest and most distinctive traditional festival in China and other East Asian cultures, and in China it refers to the first day of the first month of the lunar year, which is also called the lunar year. In Chinese folklore, the Spring Festival traditionally refers to the festival of the Lunar New Year from the Lunar New Year Festival on the eighth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, or the Lunar New Year Festival on the 23rd or 24th day of the Lunar New Year, up to the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, which is climaxed by the New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of the first month.

During the Spring Festival, the Han Chinese and many ethnic minorities in China hold various activities to celebrate the event, which focus on worshipping the gods and Buddhas, paying tribute to ancestors, getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, welcoming good fortune, and praying for a good year.