The best New Year's Day is spent with relatives.
Companionship is a kind of pure affection. In China's traditional concept, the best New Year's Day is always spent with relatives. In the farming society where transportation and communication are underdeveloped, "New Year's Eve Reunion" is the emotional knot of literati.
"Huan affectionate not extremely, reward don't stop the cup. Peaches in wine, bayberry in zongzi. Curtain wind records, candles burn to ashes. Don't doubt that your temple is heavy, Guang Xiao will urge you. "The poem" Wife Sitting at Night Watching Old Age "written by Xu, a poet in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Liang Dynasty, is the earliest known poem to watch old age. This is a very gentle poem. The poet describes the scene of surrounding the stove with his wife. "Full of emotion and not extreme" is full of emotion from the beginning. The author's joyful emotion overflows the boundary of rhetoric. He is very concerned about his wife and the time he spends with her. He wrote New Year's Eve words between husband and wife, describing the taste of wine and food, and finally stopped at the smell of the wind blowing into the curtains. Love and emotion permeate the small details of the senses. Companionship is a kind of pure affection. In China's traditional concept, the best New Year's Day is always spent with relatives.
The emphasis on "reunion" transcends the differences of class and status. By the Tang dynasty, the custom of keeping the family's birthday had spread, and the royal family was no exception. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, wrote an article "Shousui": "The twilight scene is oblique and fragrant, and the years are gorgeous. At the end of the year, winter snow and winter snow melt, and it seems that a warm spring breeze blows in the warm palace. Huge red candles are lit and look like a bunch of flowers. This is Happy New Year, this is a night. " There is a great contrast between Li Shimin's literary taste and his decisive skills. Wen Yiduo lamented in the article "Redemption of Palace Poetry" that the emperor continued Liang's greasy writing style and brought the top-down style of "colorful poetry" in the early Tang Dynasty. Judging from this song "Shousui", the writing style of "Shu Meisu, Juan Hua Zhu Juanhong" can be said to be really pretentious.