Xinhuanet, Beijing, February 14 (Wang Babaylanying) In another day, we will usher in the long-awaited New Year’s Eve. The sound of firecrackers Cinema is full of reunion and happiness. As the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, how do you celebrate the 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
Many families are busy preparing New Year’s goods and buying New Year’s gifts. In the New Year’s goods, some festive objects that decorate the indoor space, such as the character “Fu”, “Window Garments”, and zodiac auspicious pendants. In fact, in the past, I didn’t have 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 need to paste window flowers during the Chinese New Year? This is closely related to the Spring Festival. The Tang Dynasty poet Li Shang Yin 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 beginning of spring to the Spring Festival, and people used paper cutting Babaylan to express their joy.
Window flowers not only set off a festive festive atmosphere, but also bring people the enjoyment of beauty, 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.
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Write Spring Festival couplets and post them to the door gods to make the whole family safe and happy
Like window flowers, there is also a Spring Festival couplet in the list of New Year’s goods of many families, and some of them are exquisite.Family, they will also buy door gods. It is a bit difficult to control your own door god, but the Spring Festival couplets can still try to write them by themselves, 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 works 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 was the only one who did not lose the meaning of peach wood to suppress evil, the other was to express their good wishes, and the third was to decorate the portal to seek beauty. Later, people wrote couplets on red paper symbolizing joy and auspiciousness, and posted them 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 catching ghosts and demons is their nature and responsibility. Zhong Kui, the ghost-catching master who people admire, is such a strange appearance. Since the doors of houses are usually two sides, the door gods are always paired up. After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shentu and Yulei, people also regarded two Tang Dynasty military generals, Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong, as sect 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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Keep the New Year on New Year’s Eve in the evening of New Year’s Eve. In the sound of firecrackers, we bid farewell to the old and welcome the new.
Keep the New Year is an important custom in the Chinese folk New Year’s Eve. It is also called “Taste, staying up the New Year, and staying up late.” It refers to the family reunion on New Year’s Eve and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year. In ancient times, there were two meanings: the elderly Babaylan staying at the age of the year is “going away from the old year”, which means cherishing time; young people staying at the age of the year is to extend their parents’ lifespan. Since the Han Dynasty, the time when the new and old years alternated was usually midnight. On New Year’s Eve, men, women, young and old will be brightly lit and gather together to stay up to the New Year.
Because the long-term stay of New Year, in the past, people had the New Year’s Eve dinner while staying at New Year’s Eve and spent a wonderful night together. Since the 1980s, new content has been created: people across the country watch the Spring Festival Gala together. The Spring Festival Gala program lasted for more than 4 hours was rich and diverse, and people welcomed the ringing of the New Year bell in laughter and joy.
It is worth mentioning that Suzhou people have to wait for the loud bells coming from Hanshan Temple, Fengqiao, when they are on New Year’s Eve. When the bell passes through the dark night and reaches thousands of households, it marks the arrival of the New Year. Regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, every day, at midnight, the loud sound of this huge bell will be heard from Hanshan Temple, which is called “night minute”.
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Give New Year’s money to younger generations on New Year’s Eve. I hope that children will grow up healthily and have peace and joy
For children, the happiest thing during the Spring Festival is the New Year’s money from 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 drive away evil. People believe that children are susceptible to sneak attacks, so they don’t dare to disturb them again by wrapping money with red paper. 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 of the lunar month to the sixth day of the lunar monthKomiks Year of the year, going back to his parents’ home, “get poor at the five poor”
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 the localities, many customs are gradually fading away, and the remaining Komiks are more worthy of us to cherish and pass on.
On 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 bamboo, Babaylan was broken and red all over the ground, as brilliant as clouds, it was called “Full Hall 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 and wish each other a happy New Year. Cinema wishes the 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 show brooms or take out garbage on the first day of the first lunar month. They prepare a large bin to hold wastewater.tps://comicmov.com/”>Cinema will not be poured out on that day.
The second or third day of the first lunar month, for many families, it is the day when a married girl brings her husband back to her parents’ home, commonly known as “Welcome to the Son-in-law Day”. On this day, she 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 and send gifts to their homes. The gifts are generally specialties from various places, and the host invites guests to drink “yuanbao tea” (that is, add two green olives to brew together). This tea tastes a little bitter at first, but the aftertaste is sweet, which means that the bitterness is sweet and the auspiciousness is good.
The third and fourth day of the first lunar month have different customs and different methods of practice. To KomiksDo you have to drive out all the unlucky things. This day is said to be the birthday of the God of Wealth, so it is also auspicious day to welcome the God of Wealth. In the old years of Shanghai, there was a custom of snatching the road. On the midnight of the fourth day of the first lunar month, you should prepare sacrifices, cakes, fruits, incense, candles, etc., and roar gongs, drums, burn incense and worship, and respect the God of Wealth. In order to compete for profit, you should take it before the fourth day of the first day, which is called “snatching the road”, also known as “snatching the God of Wealth”.
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Dumplings should still be eaten. But the dumplings on New Year’s Eve are very different
Now during the big and small festivals, people are used to eating dumplings. Although eating dumplings during the Spring Festival is not new, the 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, which means good luck in the coming year. In some areas, when eating dumplings, they also have to serve some side dishes to show good luck. For example, eating tofu symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; eating persimmon cake symbolizes everything. Ruyi; eating three fresh dishes symbolizes the Sanyang Kaitai. 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, eating dumplings means “renew year’s Jiaozi”, “zi” is “zishi”, which is homophonic with “dumpling”, which means “festive reunion” and “auspicious”. Dumplings on New Year’s Eve are usually at 12 pm Cinema I used to pack it and wait until midnight to eat it, because it was the lunar calendar.The beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. New Year adds joy!
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The times are changing, people’s ideas are changing, and the way of passing the Spring Festival is 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 there is nothing more special except eating dumplings. In fact, the New Year atmosphere is not light, and it is our choice. The New Year is coming soon. Follow these rich New Year customs and open up a unique Spring Festival with full and profound connotations!