Countdown to 2025 New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve is the last night at the end of the year. The last day at the end of the year is called "annual division", which means that the old year will be replaced by the new year. To remove means to remove; Evening refers to night. "New Year's Eve" means the eve of the Spring Festival, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, etc. It is the last night at the end of the year. The New Year's Eve is the day for the New Year, family reunion, and ancestor worship. The Qingming Festival, the half of July, and the Double Ninth Festival are traditional ancestor worship festivals in China. New Year's Eve is of special significance in the hearts of Chinese people. The most important day at the end of the year, the wanderers who travel far away must rush home to reunite with their families, bid farewell to the old year in the sound of firecrackers and welcome the new year with fireworks.

New Year's Eve, also known as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, and Great Gloomy Day, refers to the night on the last day of the lunar year, that is, the night before the Spring Festival. The exact date of this day will vary depending on the calendar. Traditionally, the Chinese character culture circle uses the lunar calendar as its calendar. Since most of the December in the lunar calendar is the big month, which has 30 days, it is also called the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, the New Year's Eve, and the New Year's Eve.

The last day of "Sui" is called "Nian Chu", and that night is called "New Year's Eve". It is connected with the new year at the beginning and end, which is called "the end of the year and the end of the month". It is the eve of the new year, and is an important time junction to eliminate the old and welcome the new. The New Year's Eve is also called the New Year's Eve because it usually falls on the 29th or 30th day of the twelfth lunar month. On the day of New Year's end, people pay special attention to it. Every household is busy or cleans the houses, removes the old and puts on the new, lights up the decorations, welcomes the ancestors to go home for the New Year, and offers sacrifices with rice cakes, three animal meals, and three teas and five wines.

Since ancient times, New Year's Eve has had customs such as ancestor worship, keeping watch, reunion dinner, pasting New Year's red, hanging lanterns and so on. Influenced by Chinese culture, New Year's Eve is also a traditional festival for Chinese and overseas Chinese in countries in the Chinese character cultural circle and around the world. In 2007, New Year's Eve officially became a legal holiday in China in accordance with the Measures for Holidays on National Festivals and Memorial Days. In 2014, New Year's Eve was adjusted in accordance with the decision of the State Council to revise the Measures for Holidays on National Annual Festivals and Memorial Days, and will no longer be regarded as a legal holiday in China.

New Year's Eve related customs

Send to God: Usually, from December 24th of the lunar calendar, the "Kitchen Lord", "Taisui" and the gods in the world are sent to the heaven to report their work. The prepared sacrifices are rich, including tea and fruit offerings. Later, the "Kitchen Lord" is commonly sent.

Steamed rice cakes (steamed rice cakes): usually steamed for the New Year on December 25 and 26, the traditional tastes are sweet and salty, including the following: sweet rice cakes (sweet rice cakes), fat rice cakes (fat rice cakes), cai tou rice cakes (radish cakes), taro rice cakes, bao zi rice cakes, and even red turtle rice cakes

Farewell: In the afternoon of New Year's Eve, each family will set up lanterns and decorations, and each family will offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors (some people will worship the Jade Emperor first). There will be rice cakes and rice cakes in the offerings, which means that every year is high, every step is high, and the cause is developed. There are also spring flowers on the rice, called "spring rice". Spring is homophonic with "leftover", which means "rich". In addition, a bowl of "perennial food" is added.

Sticking Spring Couplets: Spring couplets are also called door couplets, spring couplets, couplets, couplets, peach charms, etc. It is said that spring couplets are evolved from peach charms, and peach charms are used to draw the design of door gods on peach boards. Later, paper was used to draw door gods, and there are also New Year pictures with auspicious patterns. While pasting Spring Festival couplets, some people should paste large and small "Fu" characters and Fufu money on the door, wall and lintel. Spring Festival couplet is a folk art combining literature and calligraphy. It is commonly seen as "days increase people's lives, and spring is full of blessings", and "spring breeze and spring rain are always here, and IKEA should be happy".

Sticking New Year pictures: Usually popular in mainland China, thick black and heavy color New Year pictures add a lot of happy atmosphere to millions of families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the simple customs and beliefs of the people and expressing their hopes for the future.

Sticking window decorations: Chinese people also like to stick various paper-cut - window decorations on windows. The window decorations not only set off the festive atmosphere.

Hanging lanterns: Chinese lanterns are also collectively called lanterns. Originated in the Western Han Dynasty 2000 years ago, people hang red lanterns around New Year's Eve to create a festive atmosphere.

Cofferdam (New Year's Eve dinner): After offering sacrifices to gods, families of all sizes sit around a table and eat the New Year's Eve dinner, which is called "Cofferdam". Fish balls, meat balls and shrimp balls are made of three kinds of ingredients, and fish is made of more than one kind of ingredients every year.

New Year's Coins: After the furnace, the elders divided the New Year's Coins. In the early years, 100 copper coins (longevity) made by the furnace or worn with red thread were used as New Year's Coins, hoping that children would live a long and happy life. Now they are mostly replaced by red packaged banknotes.

Shou Sui: "Shou Shou Shou Longevity" means that after sharing the lucky money, the whole family will sit around the stove and talk happily about Da Dan, which is called Shou Sui.

Sacrifice to Heaven: At 23:00 on the night of New Year's Eve (equivalent to the first day of the first month of the first lunar month), prepare flowers and fruits to worship the Jade Emperor, thank him for the blessing of the year, and pray for a smooth and safe New Year, which is called "Hezheng". In some places, it is at 23:00 on New Year's Eve (equivalent to New Year's Eve), which is called "farewell".