What is the date of this year?

It is the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month (the 29th day of the second lunar month), the day before the Spring Festival, commonly known as "New Year's Eve vigil".

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Keep your age at 30, commonly known as "endure the year." Why is it called "Endure the Year"? There is an interesting story circulating among people from generation to generation: It is said that in the ancient wild times, there was a fierce monster, which people called Nian. Every New Year's Eve, Nian beast will climb out of the sea to kill people and animals, destroy the countryside and bring disaster to people who have worked hard for a year.

In order to avoid the Nian beast, people close the door early on the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month, dare not sleep, wait until dawn, and drink to kill time and courage. ? On the first morning of the new year, you dare not go out until the Nian beast comes out. When people saw it, they bowed to each other, congratulated each other, and were glad that they had not been eaten by Nian beast. After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast.

On the evening of 30th one year, Nian beast suddenly fled to a village in the south of the Yangtze River. A village was almost eaten up by Nian beast, and only a pair of newly-married couples in red curtains were safe and sound. ? There are also a few childish people who lit a pile of bamboo in the yard and were playing. The fire is red. Bamboo exploded after burning. Nian beast turned here and saw the fire turn and flee.

From then on, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and noise. At the end of each year, every household sticks red paper, wears red robes, hangs red lights, beats gongs and drums, and sets off firecrackers, so that Nian Beasts dare not come again. In The Book of Songs Xiaoya Tingliao, there is a record of "the light of Tingliao". ?

The so-called "pavilion" is a torch made of bamboo poles. After the bamboo pole burns, the air in the bamboo joint expands, and the bamboo cavity bursts, making a crackling sound, which is the origin of "firecrackers".

However, villagers in some places don't know that Nian beast is afraid of red and is often eaten by Nian beast. This story later spread to Zixing in the sky. In order to save people, he is determined to destroy Nian beast. One year the beast came out, knocked it down with a fireball and chained it to a stone pillar with a thick chain. ? From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense and ask Zixing to come down to keep safe.

stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve

Observing the origin of the Spring Festival, it is said that there was a monster named Nian in ancient times who came out to make trouble every 30 nights. The fierce Nian is a carnivore, from birds and animals to living things, all of which are the objects it devours.

In order to deal with Nian, people gradually explore its life law-every 365 days, Nian will rush to a crowded place in the dark, and then return to the mountains at dawn when the rooster crows. Therefore, people regard this night as a horrible "year" and come up with various tricks to deal with it, such as keeping the old age, setting off firecrackers, giving children "lucky money" and so on, so as to ward off ghosts and evil spirits.

That night, every family ate dinner in advance, turned off the fire and cleaned the kitchen, tied all the pigsty and cowshed, sealed the front and rear doors of the house, hid in the house to eat the "New Year's Eve" and prayed for the blessings of their ancestors until the dawn of the new year. Keeping old age has gradually become a custom for people to keep old age during the Spring Festival.