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 Cinema 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 are decorated indoors, 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. 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.Babaylan to the Spring Festival, 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.
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Write Spring Festival couplets and post door gods to let the whole family go in and out peacefully and happily
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 will also buy door gods. It is a bit difficult to control your door god. However, you can still try to write 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 the “Jade Candle Book”According to the records of works such as “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 to keep peach wood anti-evil meaning, the other was to express their good wishes, and the third was to decorate the portal in order 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 Komiks are two sides, so the door gods are always paired. After the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the previous two generals Shentu and Yulei, people also regarded Qin Shubao and Yuchi Gong as the door gods of the Tang Dynasty. 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 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-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. People welcomed the ringing of the New Year in laughter and joy.
It is worth mentioningKomiks that Suzhou people have to wait for the loud bells coming from Hanshan Temple in Fengqiao on New Year’s Eve. When the bell soundsWhen it 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 the older generations. 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 to the sixth day of the New Year, people ushered in the new year of Cinema, go back to his parents’ home, and “get poor five”. In the past, from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar monthBabaylan, 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.
KomiksOn 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 covered with red and as bright as clouds, 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 up, they go out to visit relatives and friends, wish each other a happy New Year and wish each other a happy New Year. When greeting the new year, the younger generation should first wish you a happy new year to your elders and wish you a long life and good health.omicmov.com/”>Babaylan can distribute the prepared New Year’s money to the younger generation. Many places are on the first day of the first lunar monthCinemaDo not take out the broom or take out the garbage. Keep a large bucket to hold waste water and do not pour it 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 to send gifts. The gifts are generally specialties from various places, and 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, meaning that the bitterness is sweet and the auspiciousness is good.
The third and fourth day of the day, because of different customs in different places, There are also differences in the way of passing. On the fifth day of the lunar month, people want to “get out the five poor”, commonly known as “the poor wisdom, poor learning, poor literature, poor life, and poor fellowship”. After people get up in the morning, they set off firecrackers to clean up. Firecrackers are set off from the inside and out, and 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 robbing the road. On the night of the fourth day of the first lunar month, they prepared sacrifices, cakes, fruits, incense, candles, etc., and roared gongs and drums to burn incense to worship, and respected the God of Wealth. In order to compete for profit, they took it first on the fourth day of the lunar month, called “take out the road”, also known as “take the God of Wealth”.
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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 the satisfaction of everything; eating three fresh vegetables symbolizes the prosperity of the three yangs. In addition, in many areas in the south, New Year’s Eve href=”https://comicmov.com/”>Komiks do not eat dumplings at night, but choose to eat rice cakes or dumplings. Although the ingredients are different, the good expectations for the new year are the same.
Why do you have to eat dumplings during the Spring Festival, especially on the night of New Year’s Eve? In fact, eating dumplings means “renewal Jiaozi”, “zi” is “zishi”, and “dumplings” is homophonic with “dumplings”, which is “festive reunion” and “auspicious Komiks wishful” means. The dumplings on New Year’s Eve should usually be made before 12 pm and wait until midnight to eat, 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 soaring in the ice and snow world.Babaylan exploration has 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. It’s time to celebrate the New Year. Follow these rich New Year’s customs and start a different Spring Festival with a full atmosphere and a deep connotation!