The original text of Wen Zhiming's "Happy New Year" in Ming Dynasty:
I don't want to meet, but I want to talk about it. The famous papers are all us.
I also throw some paper at people. The world is too simple and empty.
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New Year greeting is a traditional folk custom in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" was to congratulate the elderly on the New Year, including kowtowing, congratulating the New Year and greeting life. In different periods, New Year greetings have different forms.
Before the Song Dynasty, the custom of paying New Year greetings to the ancients was similar to that of now. Relatives and friends visit each other with gifts, and the younger generations kowtow to their elders and say a few words of greeting to their longevity and safety. The whole New Year greeting ceremony is completed when the elders give the younger generation something to celebrate the New Year.
In the Song Dynasty, people generally didn't go into the house to pay New Year greetings, and it was popular to send "flying stickers", which is equivalent to the current greeting cards. The scholar-officials in the imperial court have the custom of flying stickers and paying New Year greetings to each other. At that time, scholar-officials made extensive friends. Visiting around to express New Year's greetings is time-consuming and laborious. So some close friends didn't go in person. Because there was no paper at that time, they cut bamboo into strips, wrote congratulatory messages and sent servants to pay New Year greetings to relatives and friends. This method is popular between officialdom and literati.
In the Ming dynasty, people still used greeting cards, that is, "visiting", instead of New Year greetings. In the Ming Dynasty, the design of New Year cards was more perfect and exquisite. Not only is the name and address printed on the card, but also the greeting of "Happy New Year" is written on it.
From about the time of the Qing Dynasty, New Year greetings appeared in the form of "group worship", and some clan leaders led several people to pay New Year greetings door to door. Some friends invited several people to pay New Year greetings, while others got together to congratulate each other.
With the development of the times, the custom of New Year greetings is constantly adding new contents and forms. Nowadays, in addition to following the previous New Year greetings, people have also started to pay New Year greetings by telephone, SMS and WeChat. These are new year greetings.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Happy New Year