WHEN IS NEW YEAR'S EVE 2022?

In the Gregorian calendar, New Year's Eve, also known as Old Year's Day or Saint Sylvester's Day

in many countries, the evening or the entire day of the last day of the year, is on 31 December.

The last day of the year is commonly referred to as “New Year’s Eve”.

In many countries, New Year's Eve is celebrated in the West with dancing, eating,

drinking, and watching or lighting fireworks are common.

HISTORY OF NEW YEAR'S EVE

Chinese New Year's Eve originated in the Shang Dynasty (1600 – 1046 BC),

when Chinese held sacrificial ceremonies in honour of gods and ancestors at the end of each year.

Then in the Zhou Dynasty (1046 – 256 BC), the phrase “Nian (Year)”appeared and certain cultural practices became popular among Chinese such as sending door god, burning bamboo.

The first dated Chinese New Year's Eve was recorded during Warring States period (475 BC – 221 AD).

In Lüshi Chunqiu, an exorcistic ritual called "Big Nuo" (大傩) was recorded being carried out in the ending day of a year to expel illness in Qin (state).

It was derived from an earlier ritual, Nuo (傩), which if the origin of Chinese New Year's Eve. Later, Qin unified China and founded the Qin dynasty, the ritual was continued.

It evolved to cleaning up houses thoroughly in the preceding days of Chinese New Year.

During the Jin dynasty (266 – 420 AD), people started to do the “Shousui (守岁)” tradition on New Year's Eve.

It was recorded by Western Jin's general Zhou Chu's article Fengtu Ji (风土记):

"At the ending of a year, people gift and wish each other, calling it Kuisui (馈岁); people invitd others with drinks and food, calling it Biesui (别岁);

on the new year's eve, people stayed up all night until sunrise, calling it Shousui (守岁)".

The article used the word "除夕 (Chuxi)" to indicate new year's eve, and the name is still used till this day.

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