Xinhuanet, Beijing, February 14 (Wang Ying) In another day, we will usher in the long-awaited New Year’s Eve. With the sound of firecrackers, the whole family is reunited and happy. As the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, how do you celebrate your Spring Festival? In addition to eating dumplings during festivals, how do we make the New Year taste and memories?
Clever hand-cut window flowers to let the New Year atmosphere flow naturally at home
Before the festival, many families were busy preparing New Year’s goods and buying New Year’s gifts. There are some festive objects that decorate the indoor room, such as the character “Fu”, window flowers, and zodiac auspicious pendants. In fact, in the past, I didn’t need to buy window flowers, and many families cut and pasted them themselves. On the square-inch red paper, cut out the joyful images.
“Window flower” is commonly known as paper cutting. In the past, no matter in the south or north, window flowers were pasted during the Spring Festival. Nowadays, the south usually only posts when they get married, while the custom of pasting window flowers during the Spring Festival in the north is still popular in many places. Why do you want to paste window flowers during the Chinese New Year? This is closely related to the Spring Festival. Li Shangyin, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote in his poem: “The creation of gold is better than the custom of Jing, and the cutting of green is the style of Jin to make people.” The “Jing customs” and “Jin style” in the poem point out this origin. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, the time for scraping window flowers to welcome the spring was changed from the Spring Festival to the Spring Festival, and people used paper cutting to express their joy.
Window flowers not only set off a festive festive atmosphere, but also bring people a beautiful enjoyment, integrating decorative, appreciative and practicality. Today, when DIY is advocated, if you are free, you might as well buy some red paper, try to cut small window flowers by yourself, and use your skillful hands to decorate the atmosphere of the New Year at home.
Write Spring Festival couplets and posts to the door gods to make the whole family safe and happy
Write windowsKomiks Like flowers, there is also a Spring Festival couplet in the New Year list of many families. Some families who pay attention to the details can also buy door gods. It is a little difficult to control the door gods, but you can still try to write the Spring Festival couplets by yourself, which not only trains calligraphy, but also improves the literary level.
Like window flowers, Spring Festival couplets have a history of thousands of years. According to books such as “Jade Candle Book” and “Yanjing Sui Shi Ji”, the original form of Spring Festival couplets is what people call “peach talisman”. During the Song Dynasty, people began to write couplets on peach wood boards, one is the meaning of peach wood to suppress evil, the other is to express their good wishes, and the third is to decorate the portals for beauty. Later, people were red paper that symbolized joy and auspiciousness. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Cinema wrote couplets, posted on both sides of the doors and windows during the New Year to express people’s good wishes for good luck in the coming year.
In addition to Spring Festival couplets, many places also retain the custom of sticking door gods. Among the people, door gods are symbols of righteousness and force. The ancients believed that people with strange appearances often have magical nature and extraordinary abilities. They are upright and kind-hearted, and it is theirs to catch ghosts and demons. Nature and responsibility, the ghost-catching genius master Zhong Kui admired is such a strange shape. Since the doors of the houses are usually two sides, the door gods are always paired. After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shentu and Yulei, people also regarded the two Tang Dynasty military generals Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong as door gods. Since then, the custom of using these two famous generals as door gods has begun to be widely circulated among the people.
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The night of New Year’s Eve is about CinemaCinema In the sound of firecrackers, we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new
Keeping the New Year is an important custom in Chinese folk New Year’s Eve. It is also called scattering, staying up to the New Year, and staying up late. It refers to the family reunion on New Year’s Eve to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year. In ancient times, there were two meanings: the elderly kept going to the New Year as “going away from the old year”, which means cherishing time; young people staying up to the New Year to extend their parents’ lifespan. Since the Han Dynasty, the time when the new and old years alternated was generally midnight. On the night of New Year’s Eve, no matter how men Women, young and old will be brightly lit and gather together to stay up to the New Year.
Because the long-term stay, people used to eat New Year’s Eve dinner while staying at the New Year and spend a wonderful night together. Since the 1980s, new content has been made: people across the country watch the Spring Festival Gala together. The Spring Festival Gala programs that lasted for more than 4 hours are rich and diverse, and people welcomed the ringing of the New Year bell in laughter.
It is worth mentioning that Suzhou people have to wait from Fengqiao when they stay up to the New Year’s Eve. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>CinemaThe loud bell sound from Hanshan Temple. When the bell passes through the dark night and reaches thousands of households, it marks the arrival of the New Year. Whether it is spring, summer, autumn and winter, every day, it is the orthogonal midnight, the cold is the same as the middle of the night.The loud sound of this huge bell will be heard from the mountain temple, which is called “night minute” by the people.
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Give New Year’s money to juniors on New Year’s Eve. I hope my children will grow up healthily, grow up safely and have a happy life
For children, the happiest thing during the Spring Festival is the New Year’s money from their elders. New Year’s money, also known as “New Year’s money” and “New Year’s money”, is one of the festive things in the New Year customs. The original purpose of New Year’s money was to suppress evil and exorcise evil. People believed that children were easily invaded by sneaky people, so they gave money to children with red paper, so they dared not disturb them again. Therefore, people call this kind of money “生后后后后后后”. Because “生” and “生” are pronounced the same as “生” and over time, it is called “生后后后后后后”. Use New Year’s money to defeat evil spirits and help children celebrate the New Year safely. I wish them good health and good luck in the new year.
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From the first day of the first day to the sixth day of the new year, I wish you a happy new year, go back to my parents’ home, and “get poor at the poorKomiks“
After New Year’s Eve, people ushered in a new year. In the past, from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there would be rich and diverse holiday customs. With the changes of the times and the differences between different places, many customs are gradually fading away, and what remains are worth cherishing and inheriting.
BabaylanOn the first day of the first lunar month, people usually set off firecrackers after getting up in the morning, which is called “opening firecrackers”. After the sound of firecrackers, the ground was broken red, as bright as clouds, and it was called “Full House Red”. In many areas, children have to wear new clothes on the morning of the first day of the junior high school. After everyone is dressed neatly, they go out to visit relatives and friends, wish each other a happy New Year. When greeting New Year, the younger generation should first wish you a happy New Year to your elders and wish you a long and healthy life. The elders can distribute the prepared New Year’s money to the younger generation. Many places do not take out brooms or take out garbage on the first day of the first lunar month. They prepare a large bin to hold wastewater and do not pour it on that day.
The second or third day of the first lunar month is the day when a married girl brings her husband back to her parents’ home, commonly known as the “Son-in-law’s Day”. This day, we will also visit relatives and friends and worship each other for the New Year, commonly known as “eating New Year’s wine”. In Shanghai, guests bring their families to their homes to give gifts. The gifts are generally specialties from various places. The host invites guests to drink “yuanbao tea” (that is, add two green olives to the tea to brew together). This tea tasted a little bitter at first.And Cinema aftertaste sweetness, meaning that bitterness will come and good fortune will be made.
The first three and fourth grades of Babaylan, because of different customs and practices in different places, there are also differences in the practices. On the fifth day of the lunar month, people have to “rush to get out of the five poor”, commonly known as breaking the five, including “poor wisdom, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, and poor communication”. After people get up in the morning, they set off firecrackers and clean up. Firecrackers are set off from the inside and out, and walk out the door while setting them, which means driving out all unlucky things. This day is said to be the birthday of the God of Wealth, so it is also the auspicious day for the God of Wealth. In the past years, there was a custom of grabbing the road. On the night of the fourth day of the first lunar month, prepare sacrifices, cakes, fruits, incense, candles and other items, and yell the gongs and drums to burn incense and worship, and respect the God of Wealth with devout respect. In order to compete for profit, it was first taken over in the fourth day of the first lunar month, which was called “grabbing the road head”, also known as “grabbing the God of Wealth”.
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Dumplings are still eaten by Cinema, but the dumplings on New Year’s Eve are very different. Babaylan are the same as
Dumplings are now used to eating dumplings during the festivals of all ages. Although eating dumplings during the Spring Festival is not new, dumplings on New Year’s Eve are very different. When making dumplings, in addition to various delicious fillings, people often wrap sugar beans, peanuts, dates, chestnuts, coins, etc. into the filling. The ones who eat them mean good luck in the coming year. In some areas, when eating dumplings, they also need to serve some side dishes to show good luck. BabaylanEating tofu is a symbol of the happiness of the whole family; eating persimmon cakes is a symbol of the satisfaction of everything; eating three fresh vegetables is a symbol of the prosperity of the three yangs. In addition, many areas in the south do not eat dumplings on New Year’s Eve, but choose to eat rice cakes or dumplings. Although the ingredients are different, the expectations for the New Year are the same.
Why do you have to eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, especially on New Year’s Eve? In fact, when eating dumplings, we use Cinema‘s meaning “renewal Jiaozi”. “Zi” is “Zi Shi”, and Jiao is homophonic with “dumpling”, which means “festive reunion” and “auspicious”. Dumplings on New Year’s Eve should usually be wrapped before 12 o’clock in the evening and eaten until midnight, because this is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. New Year adds joy!
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Times are changing, people’s concepts are changing, and the way of passing the Spring Festival is also changing. Nowadays, many New Year’s customs in traditional contexts have gradually been forgotten by people, and some new New Year’s styles such as traveling with their families, soaring and exploring in the ice and snow world have become the choice of many people. It is said that the New Year atmosphere is weak, and apart from eating dumplings, there is nothing more special about Komiks. In fact, the New Year atmosphere is not light, and the light Komiks is our choice. The New Year is coming soon. Follow these rich New Year customs and start a unique Spring Festival with a full atmosphere and deep connotation!