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Chinese New Year's EveChinese New Year's Eve night is a great day for family reunions. Chinese New Year's Eve is our traditional festival in China.
Chinese New Year's Eve, which means to remove the last night of the old year and welcome the new year.
Chinese New Year is the most anticipated festival for our Chinese, the whole family gathers together to be lively, eat Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, collect red envelopes, and imagine that the new year will be prosperous and prosperous.
But from 2025, there will be no Chinese New Year's Eve for five consecutive years, and the Chinese New Year's Eve of these five years will be the twenty-ninth of the big year, so the Chinese New Year's Eve in 2024 will be the last Chinese New Year's Eve in the next few years.
We Chinese are accustomed to inheriting the traditions that have been handed down during the festival.
Chinese New Year's Eve, as one of our most important traditional festivals, has been handed down to the custom of one not falling, two not extinguishing, three to do, and four to eat.
What does this mean? Don't worry, I'm going to tell you more about it.
One, one does not fall
One does not pour refers to the leftovers not to be poured.
Every Chinese New Year, the family will make a big table of delicious food, and the food is very rich.
Flying in the sky, running underground, swimming in the water, and marine life, we usually eat less and are reluctant to eat, and all of them will be put on the table on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Such a large table of meals is often not eaten in one meal, and some families will even cook more dishes than usual during the Chinese New Year.
Uneaten dishes should not be thrown away according to our traditions, because leftover meals represent a surplus of every year, a family has more than enough celebrations, and is a good omen of good luck.
There is surplus every year, and it is also an expectation of life in the new year.
Although now we do not advocate or even oppose leftovers on the table, because leftovers will produce a large amount of nitrite when heated, which will affect our health.
However, as a tradition that we have always had during the New Year, it will continue to be used on Chinese New Year's Eve.
For the sake of our health, and upholding the traditional virtue of not wasting food, we can scientifically dispose of leftovers.
For example, if you can have meat leftovers, don't leave vegetarian leftovers.
Vegetables contain a lot of nitrates, which are much more abundant than meat.
The amount of nitrite produced during the heating process is also more, so it is better to have meat than vegetarian leftovers.
When the meal is freshly baked, you can take care to avoid leftovers, which can reduce the damage caused by nitrite accumulation.
In addition, when cooking, you can make more melons and fruits and vegetables, and less stem and leaf vegetables.
Because the nitrate content of stems and leaves is higher than that of fruits and melons.
The first meal after it comes out of the pot is the healthiest, and after it is heated again, it will be harmful substances.
In addition, if there is a surplus of staple food, rice should be refrigerated, and pasta should be frozen.
This preserves the freshness of the ingredients as much as possible and prevents the growth of bacteria.
All leftovers and leftovers should be completely cooled before being refrigerated or frozen to avoid becoming a breeding ground for bacteria or a petri dish.
Two, two immortal
The second inextinguishable means that the lights and incense cannot be extinguished.
Every year during the Chinese New Year, a very important and traditional thing is that the lights and incense cannot be extinguished all night on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Some families even extend until the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, when the lights and incense are not extinguished.
The tradition of never turning off the lights is very familiar to many families.
Because every house hangs a colorful light by the window and flickers for several days, this practice is actually to create a brightly lit atmosphere.
The room is very warm and bright, and there is no darkness, which also indicates that the coming year will be bright and smooth, and it is a way for people to pray for a safe and smooth new year.
Although I feel that there are some superstitions, it is harmless, and this custom also has an auspicious and beautiful meaning, so it has been used.
Incense cannot be extinguished, which is a kind of concern and respect for ancestors.
During the Chinese New Year, the most taboo thing for everyone is unlucky things, and the whole family should be reunited, so that it can be considered a complete circle.
Therefore, it is also a very important thing to offer incense to the ancestors, and if you offer incense to the ancestors, there will be no undead spirits to make turmoil during the Chinese New Year, and you can also comfort the ancestors underground.
It reflects the prosperity of the family, and the ancestors know that the whole family is prosperous and developing, so there is no need to worry and worry.
The lights and incense are not extinguished, and as far as the eye can see, the windows of every household are lit up during the New Year, and this warm and beautiful atmosphere is incomparable to any festival.
Even on winter nights, every family is thriving, warm and peaceful, and the persistence of the lights and incense also reflects the never-extinguishing spiritual fire of each family's inheritance and development.
Three, three to do
Third, the most common saying refers to pasting Spring Festival couplets, setting off firecrackers, and keeping the New Year.
The romance of the Chinese is engraved in the bones, and every time it is the New Year, every household will paste the Spring Festival on the door.
I would like to see the Spring Festival couplets as a kind of declaration and slogan for the new year in every household, and the Spring Festival couplets are often catchy and read with blessings and wishes for the new year.
When you get up early in the Chinese New Year's Eve, you will be prosperous in the new year, just like the auspicious words on the Spring Festival.
One of the happiest things to do on Chinese New Year's Eve is to set off firecrackers.
When I was a child, what I looked forward to the most was to be able to go out and set off firecrackers, and the adults would help the children cover their ears, and the crackling firecracker sparks would reflect everyone's faces.
Sometimes I will compare with my neighbors to see whose firecrackers are set off for a long time and sound.
If the end of the firecracker can be put to the end without interruption, it will be said that the coming year will be smooth sailing.
This is derived from an ancient legend that the origin of the year was obtained by a beast called the year.
This New Year beast is particularly afraid of crackling sounds, so during the New Year, every household will set off firecrackers to drive away the New Year beast, and the year can be spent safely.
Nowadays, we have more and more ways to set off firecrackers, including the most traditional red firecrackers, as well as various salutes of flowers.
When the fireworks bloom in the dark night sky, everyone's eyes are lit up, and everyone looks at the fireworks and imagines the beauty of the new year.
Fireworks and firecrackers symbolize our Chinese expectations for the New Year, hoping that the new year will be bright and beautiful.
There is another thing to do on Chinese New Year's Eve, which is to keep the New Year, which is actually to stay up all night without sleeping, and everyone spends the night on Chinese New Year's Eve.
The whole family gets together to chat, watch the Spring Festival Gala, and have entertainment activities to spend the last moments of the old year together.
This stems from an ancient tradition, which says that keeping the New Year is good for warding off evil spirits, and that ghosts are afraid of places where there are many people and yang, so the whole family gathers together.
Keeping the New Year also indicates that in the new year, the family can also have a lot of one, and the family will be safe and reunited.
Fourth, four to eat
Four to eat means that you must eat dumplings, rice balls, rice cakes and fish on Chinese New Year's Eve.
On Chinese New Year's Eve, we will eat a lot of mountain and sea delicacies, but with these four resident guests, no matter how the patterns of our other dishes change, they cannot change and must eat.
The first place among them is undoubtedly the dumplings.
Originally invented by Zhang Zhongjing, dumplings are filled with herbs to treat patients with frostbite on their ears.
Later, it was used to celebrate every New Year's holiday, and we Chinese would eat dumplings to celebrate.
The shape of the dumplings is also more festive, looking like a small ingot, which means that the new one can attract wealth and enter the treasure.
And now dumplings have become a special food in China, and they are also loved by foreign friends overseas.
Dumplings are not only a must-have delicacy for our festivals, but also a food business card of our China and are well-known all over the world.
In addition to dumplings, what we must also eat is tangyuan.
The shape of the glutinous rice balls is round and round, and the filling inside is sweet, symbolizing sweetness and moisture.
Everyone sat together, tasting the sweet rice balls, and their hearts were delicious.
Tangyuan symbolizes the beauty of reunion, so on Chinese New Year's Eve, this round little baby was put on the list of must-eat.
The third place is the rice cake, the cake of the rice cake is the same as the high sheng Gao, the rice cake is square and sweet in taste, which can indicate the new year step by step.
Rice cakes can also express the hope that the living standard will continue to improve in the coming year, and all aspects will be improved in all aspects, which is also a good wish and blessing for the future.
Finally, one of the must-eat dishes for the Chinese New Year is fish.
There is no exact name as to what fish, but there must be a fish on the table.
Because fish means that there is a surplus every year, and it is also an expectation that there will be a surplus every year.
Fish are a symbol of good fortune in our traditional culture, such as the koi fish, which is often regarded as the embodiment of good luck.
I remember when I was a child, many families had New Year's dolls, and some of them were holding a big fat fish in their hands.
There is a surplus every year, and it can also represent the prosperity and abundant harvest of the year, so fish is also a symbol of wealth and prosperity.
Of course, these traditions are only folk traditions, and some families do not completely rely on traditions during the New Year, and some people do not eat these four things during the New Year.
But this does not affect the same mood and wishes for the new year as we celebrate the New Year.
epilogue
In the blink of an eye, the New Year is about to come again, and after a busy year, you can finally take advantage of the New Year's holiday to relax and experience the fun of the New Year.
This year's Chinese New Year's Eve, some people may still need to go to work, causing everyone's dissatisfaction. Of course, the state also encourages compensatory and paid leave, so that enterprises can protect the rights of employees.
There are always people who complain that the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker, but the New Year is still the festival that we Chinese look forward to the most.
Such a festival of family reunion should not be forgotten and discarded by us, and all traditions are just a formality.
It carries our love for the New Year and the pursuit of an atmosphere of family reunion.
I wish you all the best wishes in the new year can come true, you can have love, money, peace and smoothness.