{"id":6513,"date":"2019-11-19T20:33:31","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/staying-up-the-whole-night-on-new-year-039-s-eve\/"},"modified":"2019-11-19T20:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T20:33:31","slug":"staying-up-the-whole-night-on-new-year-039-s-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/staying-up-the-whole-night-on-new-year-039-s-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying up the Whole Night on New Year&#039;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span>Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a mo<em><\/em>nster  called &quot;nian&quot; or &quot;year&quot; that would harm people. Later, people found out  that the mo<em><\/em>nster routinely came out on New Year&#8217;s Eve, so people began  to get together on this day, staying up and chatting, hoping for  peaceful passage of the time. The custom of staying up on New Year&#8217;s Eve  started in the South and North Dynasties, when people would stay up by  the candle or oil lamp on New Year&#8217;s Eve. The custom symbolizes the  warding off of all diseases and disasters, wishing for good luck in the  New Year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3736605202\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a monster called &quot;nian&quot; or &quot;year&quot; that would harm people. Later,<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-traditional-chinese-festivals"],"views":264,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/my\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}