Relevant historical materials of New Year's Eve.

December 30th is New Year's Eve, commonly known as New Year's Eve. People in Beijing have always regarded this day as the official New Year's Eve. People's main celebrations to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year are concentrated on this day. Therefore, this is the most solemn and lively day.

In order to decorate the New Year and make the Spring Festival full of "welcoming and auspicious" atmosphere, people dress up from the morning, and women put on velvet flowers and silk flower symbolizing good luck and celebration, and put red Spring Festival couplets and door hearts in front of the door. Every family has different words and expressions. Some even put red and green "hanging money" (a paper-cut handicraft) on the window, stick grilles. Indoor stickers "It's appropriate to enter the New Year, happiness is just around the corner, family happiness, population safety" and so on. Cashiers and large-scale production tools, as well as the covers and signs of shops, are all affixed with "Dao You Er" made of yellow paper.

In order to express "cautious pursuit of the future" and "respect for the thoughts of the times", the main cards of the three generations of clansmen will be displayed, and the images will be hung up. Those who have no ancestral halls and main cards will also use bonus paper money to temporarily build a few bags.

According to legend, from the evening of a day to the beginning of a day, the gods examine the good and evil on earth. Therefore, a "table of heaven and earth" must be set up in the courtyard, on which the king's offerings are placed, incense is lit and candles are held, so that the gods of the past can bless in the new year.

There are square tables, red embroidered tablecloths, incense burners, wax strings and red wax in the main hall, which are useful for "big double bags" and "small double bags". Yellow money, gold ingots and thousands of pieces are still pressed under the wax string, which is called "God Money Grain". Generally speaking, there are different kinds of gods: 1. "Hundreds of copies", that is, photo albums carved by the earth god and the gods, have a yellow paper-colored "Jade Emperor" on their heads, half filled and half exposed, inserted in a red paper pocket, and then clamped on a wooden clip. Second, the complete book of "Three Realms and Eighteen Buddha Gods" printed by rhubarb paper woodcut watercolor. Three-star portrait or porcelain of Fu Lushou. Fourth, the incoming God of Wealth code. This is an altar to greet the gods at night. In the yard, there is a big "money-grain basin" made of pig iron, in which sticks and sesame stalks are loosely placed, and firecrackers are hung on both sides. If there are Buddhist temples and shrines at home, sacrifices should be offered.

On New Year's Eve, people attach great importance to reunion. People who are far away from home or on business have to rush home on the last day of the year. It is this complex that constitutes the most popular festival with special folk significance in the Spring Festival. For thousands of years, this national consciousness has been passed down and followed steadily. Today, before and after the Spring Festival every year, all the transportation departments in China hold "Spring Festival travel rush Rush" without exception to meet the demand of going home for reunion on New Year's Eve.