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. The years are numbered, and life is filled with self-pity. Diligence comes one day after another, and another year comes next year after noon. ——Tang Dynasty: "Yuan Ri" by Sikong Tu

Vernacular interpretation: Now that I am getting older, I am full of ambitions but have not realized them, and I feel sorry for myself. We have been busy to welcome the New Year, and when the sun sets, it means that the new year is about to arrive.

4. Yunfeng Gaoxiu protected the general, and struck Hanchun with thunder to destroy the people. After all, it is 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 singing and dancing, there is no bombing and there is no need to be frightened; we eat steak, black wings, black tea and green wine, and the sound of playing cards blends in with the new year.

5. When Dai Xing first held the wine cup to congratulate Yao, he was shocked by the frost on his temples in the mirror. It’s a good thing that when I laugh secretly in front of the lamp, Tu Su should not taste it first - Tang Dynasty: Cheng Yanxiong’s "Yuan Ri"

Translation: I come back at night and raise a glass with everyone to celebrate my longevity, but I accidentally see When I saw myself in the mirror, my temples were gray. He smiled secretly at himself in the mirror. It seemed that he might not be the first to taste this Tusu wine.