Why does the Spring Festival in Beijing say that the first day of the first month is completely different from New Year's Eve?

The article "Spring Festival in Beijing" says: The first day of the first month and New Year's Eve are completely different.

1. New Year's Eve: Every household cooks New Year's dishes, wears new clothes, puts up couplets, puts up New Year pictures, sets off firecrackers and watches the New Year.

2. The first day of the first month: shops are closed, men pay New Year greetings, women entertain guests, and children visit temple fairs.

New Year's Eve is very lively, with bright lights and firecrackers all night. On the first day, people rested, paid New Year greetings and visited temple fairs, which was very leisurely. Compared with New Year's Eve, the first day is quieter and less lively.

On New Year's Eve, we should not only clean the house and the outside, but also paste door gods, Spring Festival couplets, New Year pictures, lanterns and so on. The last day of the year is called "the beginning of the year" and that night is called "New Year's Eve". People often stay up all night on New Year's Eve, which is called keeping watch.

The Spring Festival in Beijing is an essay written by the modern writer Lao She at 195 1. This paper depicts a folk picture of the Spring Festival in old Beijing, showing the solemnity and liveliness of the Spring Festival and the warmth and beauty of the holiday customs in China. At the same time, comparing the Spring Festival between the old society and the new society, it highlights that the new society has changed customs and customs, and the Spring Festival has been happy and healthy, expressing the author's praise for the new China and the new society. The full text is full of simple language with Beijing flavor, and the sentences are simple and natural, fluent and accessible, with strong expressive force and appeal.