1. The English for New Year's Eve is: New Year's Eve.
Second, New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve refers to the night on the last day of the twelfth lunar month, which is connected with the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month). The word "except" in "New Year's Eve" means "going, changing and alternating", and New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted". People want to get rid of the old part and the new part, and the new one means to be replaced by the new one next year, that is, the last night of the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the activities during this period are all around changing the old for the new, eliminating disasters and praying for blessings.
Third, explain in detail.
1 It's New Year's Eve. Tang Zhang's poem "Yue Zhou Shou Sui" says: "Except the night is full, the cold court is full of fire." Biography of Feng En in Ming Dynasty: "Except that there is no rice rain at night, the room is wet, and I am free to study." Bing Xin's Past (2) 8: "After drinking at night. In my father's library, my father reads a book and I sit next to it. " See New Year's Eve.
2. It refers to the night before the winter solstice. Volume 34 of Tai Ping Guang Ji quotes the Biography of Tongyou: "It's a tool for Lujia to prepare for prosperity on the eve of the winter solstice." Song, Lu You's Notes on the Old Learning Temple, Volume 8: "After reading 340 volumes of Taiping Guangji, Lu Chuanyou said,' It's evening, and the winter solstice excludes night.' It is understood that in the Tang Dynasty, the day before winter was also called "except night".