In ancient times, people drank tusu wine on New Year's Day.
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Before the 20th century, 元日 and 元旦 both meant the first day of the lunar year. After China took up the Western calendar, 元旦 moved to 1 January and the lunar New Year became 春节.
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Wang Anshi's poem opens with 爆竹声中一岁除 'amid the firecrackers the old year goes' and ends with families pasting up new peach-wood charms on their doors, the ancestors of today's 春联.
