Today, a topic of "no Chinese New Year's Eve for 5 consecutive years from next year" has topped the national hot search list.
The Chinese New Year's Eve of the Lunar Year of the Dragon is February 9, 2024, which is also the "last Chinese New Year's Eve in recent years".
Why did "Chinese New Year's Eve" disappear? Without "Chinese New Year's Eve", does the shadow affect a good year?
Netizens commented and posted one after another, expressing their doubts and reluctance to Chinese New Year's Eve.
But in fact, the absence of "Chinese New Year's Eve" may not be as serious as you think!
[Chinese New Year's Eve will be "on vacation" every three to five years].
In fact, it is not uncommon for there to be no Chinese New Year's Eve in a year, and it will occur in about three to five years.
From 2000 to the present, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2022 have not had Chinese New Year's Eve.
From the calendar, Chinese New Year's Eve for five consecutive years from 2025 to 2029 is the "twenty-ninth year of the big year".
Why is Chinese New Year's Eve so "erratic"?
Originally, the lunar calendar, which was calculated according to the changes in the waxing and waning of the moon, used the "synodic cycle" to calculate the number of days in a month, and there were also large and small months.
The "New Year" is the first day of the new month, which is the time when people cannot see the moon at all; The day of "hope" is the fifteenth day, which is the time of the full moon.
Since the relative motion between the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun is not static, the "synodic month cycle" is long and short, and there is a division of 30 days for the big month and 29 days for the small month in the lunar year.
If the wax moon of that year coincided with a small month, only 29 days, there would be no Chinese New Year's Eve.
In addition to the phenomenon of "disappearing" in the Chinese New Year's Eve, if there is a "leap month", there will also be two Chinese New Year's Eve.
However, this phenomenon is much rarer, with the last occurrence in 1536 and the next in 3358.
There is even a situation of leap month, one more first day of the first month, it is impossible to have more than one Spring Festival, so one less Chinese New Year's Eve, let alone the impact on the festival.
But it has to be said that this set of traditional calendars created by the ancient Chinese with careful observation and great wisdom is both magical and mysterious.
Chinese New Year's Eve does not specifically refer to the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve
Seeing the "five consecutive years off" in the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, many netizens couldn't help but worry about "Can this year be better?" ”But in fact, although the Chinese New Year's Eve will "disappear" on the 29th of the lunar month or the 30th of the lunar month, the Chinese New Year's Eve, as a traditional festival, is still there.
The festival "Chinese New Year's Eve" has a long history, its origins can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, and it was not "bound" to the Chinese New Year's Eve at the beginning.
Lü's Spring, Autumn and Winter Records record that on the day before the New Year, the ancients used drumming to expel the "ghost of the plague", which was the prototype of the Chinese New Year's Eve festival.
Chinese New Year's Eve is often referred to as the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, but in fact, due to the lunar calendar, the date of Chinese New Year's Eve may be December 30 or December 29, but in any case, it is the end of the lunar year.
Therefore, in the year of no 30th year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the reunion meal cannot be less, the cleaning cannot be lazy, and the New Year's red envelopes cannot be saved, we still have to go through the "cutscene" of Chinese New Year's Eve on the 29th of the New Year.
When we ask Chinese New Year's Eve, what are we asking? 】
Although theoretically speaking, Chinese New Year's Eve seems to be "dispensable", the "absence" of the next five years of Chinese New Year's Eve has made netizens "make a fuss", so that the topic dominates the hot search. "No Chinese New Year's Eve I feel like something is missing", "Chinese New Year's Eve night is actually the time when the flavor of the year is the strongest", "A year without Chinese New Year's Eve is incomplete" ......
But it is not difficult to see through the discussion of netizensWhen people ask why Chinese New Year's Eve disappeared, they are actually asking "where did the taste of the year go".
Take the New Year's money, eat reunion dinner, watch the Spring Festival Gala, set off firecrackers, ......"Chinese New Year's Eve" is not only a word and a date in the hearts of many Chinese, but also carries a full sense of festival rituals.
Whether it is the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve or the twenty-ninth year of the big year, the year will still pass, but people's hearts give this day a special meaning and expectation.
So this year, how do you plan to celebrate this last Chinese New Year's Eve before 2030?
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