How many days until New Year's Day? What are the differences between celebrating New Year’s Day in the South and the North?

How many days until New Year's Day? What are the differences between celebrating New Year’s Day in the South and the North?
New Year's Day is a legal holiday, and many friends are looking forward to its arrival. So let's take a look at how many days are left until New Year's Day? What are the differences between celebrating New Year’s Day in the South and the North? The arrival of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar means that we are entering the coldest season of the year. Let’s learn more about it in Shuimoxiansheng.com’s special topic on the twelfth month of the lunar calendar in 2019.

How many days until New Year's Day?

Today's time is: December 3, 2019.
There are 29 days left until New Year's Day.

Wednesday, January 1, 2020, the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month in the Year of the Pig
The concept of "New Year's Day" has different meanings in different eras and countries. The concept of "New Year's Day" in China has always referred to the first day of the first lunar month.

What are the differences between celebrating New Year’s Day in the South and the North?

south:
1. In the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, bamboo poles are tied to grass and set on fire during New Year's Day, which is called "celebrating silkworms in the fields."
2. In Shaoxing, guests are entertained with "tea bowl tea" on New Year's Day. Sometimes olives and kumquats are put into the tea bowl, which is called "holding ingots".
3. In Fujian, the Minnan pronunciation of "spring" and "leftover" is the same. When eating on New Year's Day, people put flowers made of red paper on the rice, which is commonly known as "spring rice". Spring dinner is a symbol of "abundance every year".
4. In Guangdong, when paying New Year’s greetings on New Year’s Day, the elders will give red envelopes or tangerines to the younger generations, which is also a symbol of good luck and surplus in the coming year.
north:
1. Starting from New Year's Day, people who are not busy with farming would slaughter pigs and sheep, sit cross-legged on the earthen kang, and chat about family matters. They would not work or go out until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Due to the cold weather, the New Year's Day diet in Northeast China mainly consists of frozen foods, pickled vegetables, and stews. Frozen dumplings, sauerkraut stewed with vermicelli, pickled snow mustard greens, etc. are all must-have foods for New Year's Day.
2. Children in Beijing eat candied haws during the New Year, which symbolizes a prosperous new year. In terms of culture and customs: Yangko dancing, stilt walking, and Northeast Errenzhuan will all be performed in succession at the temple fair. In Tianjin, people are busy cutting window flowers, pasting couplets, and engaging in a myriad of other cultural and entertainment activities. On New Year's Day, students in Shandong burn incense and worship the statue of Confucius in the hope of getting their names on the imperial examinations next year.

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