1. Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

The end of a year does not mean The end or the beginning, but a process, in which the experience continues to accumulate wisdom for us. — Hal Borland Hal Borland

2. The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.

The purpose of our New Year is not to welcome a new year, but to welcome a new self. — G.K.Chestertom G.K.Chesterton

3. Yunfeng Gaoxiu protected the general, and struck Hanchun with thunder to destroy the people. After all, it's not as good as the concession, and the sound of playing cards sounds like the New Year. ——Modern and contemporary times: Lu Xun's "New Year's Day of the Twenty-Two Years"

Translation: Thick clouds and mist shrouded the high mountains, and the generals hid in caves to issue orders; the Kuomintang fighter planes bombed the villages and moved them to the ground, and people were massacred. All innocent people. Shanghai's concessions are still peaceful with singing and dancing, there is no bombing, no need to be frightened; we eat steaks, black wings, black tea and green wine, and the sound of playing cards mingles with the new year.

4. The Xiefang Palace in the dusk scene is a gorgeous palace. The cold leaves the winter snow, and the warmth brings in the spring breeze. The steps are fragrant and plain, and the flowers and candles are red. ***Happy new year to the old year, welcome and see you off all night long. ——Tang Dynasty: Li Shimin's "Shou Sui"

Translation: The setting sun in the evening slants on the gorgeous palace, and the years make the palace more beautiful. It's cold at the end of the year, the winter snow melts, and the warm spring breeze seems to be blowing into the warm palace. The huge red candle was lit, and it looked like clusters of flowers from a distance. The king and his ministers feasted and drank, spent the night happily, welcomed the new year and bid farewell to the old one, singing and dancing all night long.

5. Good resolutions are simply chechs that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Good New Year's resolutions are assets that can be obtained without spending a penny.

— Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde