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 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
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 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. 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 beginning of spring 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 post door gods to make the whole family safe and happy
Like window flowers, there is also a Spring Festival couplet in the New Year list of many families. Some families who pay attention to their qualities can also buy door gods. It is a bit difficult to control the door god, 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 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 that 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 in order to achieve beauty. Later, people wrote couplets on the red paper that symbolizes 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, the door god isThe symbol 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 their nature and responsibility to catch ghosts and demons. The ghost-catching celestial master Zhong, who is admired by people, is such a strange appearance. Since the doors of houses are usually two sides, Cinema is always paired with door gods. 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.
——————————————————————
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 Chinese folk New Year’s Eve. It is also called zhaowai, staying up to the New Year, and staying up late to welcome the arrival of the Lunar New Year. In ancient times, there were two meanings: the elderly stayed at the age of the year as “going away from the old year”, which means cherishing time; the young stayed at the age of the year to extend the lifespan of their parents. 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 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 when Suzhou people are on New Year’s Eve, they have to wait for the loud bells coming from Hanshan Temple in Maple Bridge. 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”.
—————————————————————
Give New Year’s Eve to give your younger generation New Year’s Eve. Hope your children grow up healthily and have peace and joy
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 intention of New Year’s money was to suppress evil and drive away evil spirits, and people believe thatChildren are easily affected by sneaky things, and they don’t dare to disturb them again by wrapping money with red paper. Therefore, people call this kind of money “六文” because “六” and “六文” are pronounced the same as “六文”, and over time, they are called “六文六文Komiks“. Use New Year’s money to defeat evil spirits and help children celebrate the New Year safely. Cinema wishes them good health and good luck in the new year.
————————————————
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 “Come to the fifth day of the five years”, 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.
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 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 to greet each other and wish each other a New Year. CinemaWhen greetings, the younger generation should first wish the elders a happy new year and wish them 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 tastes a little bitter at first, but Komiks aftertaste sweet, meaning that the bitterness will come and the good fortune will be made.
The third and fourth grades of the lunar calendar are different, and the methods of passing differently are different. 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 from the inside and out, and walk outside the door while setting them, which means that everything is unluckydrive out everything. 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”.
———————Babaylan—————————————
Dumplings are still something to eat. But the dumplings on New Year’s Eve are very different. Nowadays, people are used to eating dumplings during the Cinema season. 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. For example, eating tofu symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; eating persimmon cake symbolizes the satisfaction of everything; eating three fresh vegetables symbolizes the prosperity of the three yangs. In addition, in 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 “renewal Jiaozi”, “zi” is “zishi”, and Jiao and “dumplings” are homophonic, which means “festive reunion” and “auspiciousness”. Dumplings on New Year’s Eve should usually be wrapped before 12 pm and eaten until the night is on the ground, because this is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. New Year adds joy!
————————
Times are changing, people’s concepts are changing, and the way of passing the Spring Festival is also changing. Nowadays, many New Year customs in traditional contexts are gradually forgotten by people, and some new things are gone.In the past year, Komiks traveling 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 Chinese New Year is coming soon. Follow these rich New Year customs and open up a different Spring Festival with full and profound connotations!