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, there was no need to buy window flowers. 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 Vow” and “Jin Feng” 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 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 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 the family 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 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 KomiksThe custom of approving 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. The ghost-catching heavenly master Zhong Kui admired is such a strange shape. Since the doors of folk houses are usually two pairs open, the door gods are always paired. The Tang DynastyCinema After Komiks, in addition to the previous two generals Shentu and Yulei, people also regarded 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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Kemiks, in addition to the previous two generals, Shentu and Yulei, people regarded Qin Shubao as the door gods, and they used the door gods.
Kemiks, in addition to the previous two generals, they regarded Qin Shubao as the first time, and stay up late to welcome the lunar calendar. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe arrival of the new year. BabaylanIn ancient times, there were two meanings: the elderly were “godding for the old year”, and Babaylan means cherishing time; young people are staying at the new year to extend their parents’ lives. Since the Han Dynasty, the new year and the old year areKomiks The alternating moments are usually midnight. On New Year’s Eve, men, women, young and old, they will be brightly lit and gather together to stay up.
Because the long stay of the New Year, people used to eat New Year’s Eve dinner while staying at the New Year and spend a wonderful night together. Since the 1980s, the New Year’s EveBabaylan has a new content: people across the country watch the Spring Festival Gala together. The Spring Festival Gala programs lasting for more than 4 hours are rich and diverse, and people welcome the ringing of the New Year’s bells in laughter.
It is worth mentioning that Suzhou people have to wait for the loud bells coming from Hanshan Temple, Fengqiao, on New Year’s Eve.. When the bell rang through the dark night and reached thousands of households, Cinema marked 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 juniors 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 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 “未分类”. Because “未” and “未” pronunciation are the same, it is called “Cinema未分类”. 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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The second or third day of the first lunar month is the day when a married girl returns to her parents’ home with her husband, commonly known as the “Son-in-law’s Day”href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks“. On this day, we will 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 send 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 the aftertaste is sweet, Cinema means that the suffering is over and the good fortune is made.
The third and fourth grades of the lunar calendar, because of different customs in different places, the methods of passing are different. On the fifth grade, people want to “rush to the five poor”, commonly known as breaking the five, including “intelligence, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, and poor communication”. After people get up in the morning, they set off firecrackers to clean up. Firecrackers are set off from the inside and out, and they walk out the door, which means driving out all 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, we prepare sacrifices, cakes, and Komiks incense, candles, and other things, and gongs, drums, burn incense and worship, and respect the God of Wealth. In order to compete for profit, it was taken before the fourth day of the first lunar month, which was called “grabbing the road”, also known as “grabbing the God of Wealth”.
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Dumplings are still to be eaten, but 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 is not new, dumplings on New Year’s Eve is 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, they also have to eat some side dishes to show good luck. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Babaylan. Eating tofu symbolizes the happiness of the whole family; eating persimmon cake symbolizes the success of everything; eating three fresh dishes symbolizes the prosperity of the three yang. In addition to this, 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 good expectations for the beauty of the New Year are Komiks href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks is consistent.
Why do you have to eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, especially on New Year’s Eve? In fact, eating dumplings means “renew year-round Jiaozi”. “Zi” is “Zi Shi”, and Jiao is homophonic with “dumplings”, which is “festiveBabaylanreunion” and “auspiciousThe meaning of “Ruyi”. The dumplings on New Year’s Eve should be made before 12 pm and then eaten until midnight, because this is the beginning of the first day of the first lunar month. The New Year adds joy!
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Times are changing, people’s concepts are changing, and the way of celebrating the Spring Festival is also changing. Nowadays, many New Year’s customs in traditional contexts are gradually forgotten by people, and some new New Year’s styles such as traveling with their families and exploring in the ice and snow world have become the choice of many people. It is said that the New Year’s atmosphere is weak, and there is nothing more special except eating dumplings. In fact, the New Year’s atmosphere is not weak, but what is light is our choice. The New Year is coming soon. Follow these rich New Year’s customs and start a unique Spring Festival with a full atmosphere and deep connotation!