《资治通鉴·汉纪》150 PLUS｜再也不见2022，请多关照2023

Summary

This 芮淇讲透资治通鉴 PLUS episode steps away from the Chu-Han storyline to offer a short New Year cultural note. It links 元旦节日层累 to the 尧舜禹传说, 汉武帝’s calendar standardization, the textual claim about 《晋书》, and festival customs recorded through 《荆楚岁时记》, 《四民月令》, and 陆游. Its main wiki value is to show how a calendar term becomes a layered holiday made from rulership myth, official calendar order, food, exorcistic plants, door symbols, poetry, and contemporary blessing.

Key Claims

• The episode presents the 尧舜禹传说 as a traditional origin frame for the year’s beginning: Yao passes rule to Shun, Shun later passes rule to Yu, and Shun’s sacrifice to Heaven and to Yao becomes associated with the opening day of the year.
• It says that from 汉武帝 onward, the first day of the first month in the Xia calendar was treated as 元旦, and that this naming convention continued until the end of the Qing.
• It also says that the term “元旦” appears earliest in 《晋书》, a claim recorded here as source-scoped because the episode does not develop a textual history.
• The episode uses 《荆楚岁时记》 to describe early New Year customs in the Jingchu region after formal greetings, including pepper-cypress wine, peach decoction, and eating eggs.
• 《四民月令》 is cited for the early appearance of pepper-cypress wine, with pepper and cypress framed through fragrance, longevity, and protection from illness.
• Peach decoction and peach charms are explained through older beliefs that peach could suppress harmful forces, placing New Year food and doorway practice near Chinese Folk Religion Layering.
• The foods named in the episode include eggs, soup cakes, and New Year cakes; they make the holiday a case for Festival Food Material History rather than only a calendrical label.
• A 陆游 poem is used to show the later literary afterlife of peach charms and pepper wine in New Year imagery.
• The episode ends by turning the historical and ritual material back into a 2023 blessing for listeners.

Key Quotes

“愿昼吉祥，夜吉祥，昼夜六时，恒吉祥” - the closing blessing that returns the cultural-history note to the listener’s New Year.

“元旦快乐” - the final holiday greeting.

Connections

• 元旦节日层累 - main concept added by the episode.
• 历法改革与政治合法性 - Han Wudi’s calendar role makes festival time a political and institutional matter.
• Festival Food Material History - pepper-cypress wine, peach decoction, eggs, soup cakes, and New Year cakes turn festival practice into material history.
• 尧舜禹传说 and 大禹 - mythic-ruler origin frame for the year’s beginning.
• 汉武帝, 《晋书》, 《荆楚岁时记》, 《四民月令》, and 陆游 - historical ruler, cited texts, and poet used as evidence anchors.
• Qixi Festival Layering and Chinese Folk Religion Layering - adjacent frames for festivals as layered calendars, rituals, stories, foods, and local beliefs.

Contradictions

• No settled contradiction is recorded. The origin story, earliest-term claim, and Han Wudi calendar point are kept source-scoped because this is a short holiday overview rather than a detailed textual or calendrical study. The title’s “2022/2023” frame is preserved as the episode’s listener-facing New Year setting despite the source file date being 2026-01-14.