The Chinese Han people generally eat rice cakes, dumplings, cakes, glutinous rice balls, poached eggs, meatballs, fish, wine, blessings, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candies, tea and delicacies during the Spring Festival, accompanied by dusting Dust off bedding, stocking equipment, couplets, New Year's picture pasting, paper cutting, window grille stickers, pasting of candles with words of blessing, lighting, stirring, setting off firecrackers, celebrating New Year's Eve with lucky money, visiting relatives in the New Year The culmination of their grandson's visit to the gravesite, a visit to the flower market in the city center, and many other activities. Chinese people have the habit of hanging Chinese knots during the Spring Festival. Before New Year's Eve in Tianjin, it is the custom to go to Qiao Xiangluo, an ancient cultural street, to ask for a Chinese knot, which means Qiao Xiang receives blessings; Wenzhou people pray for their own religion, hoping to be happy with their families in the new year. This is mostly Buddhism.
For thousands of years, people's customs of celebrating the Chinese New Year have become very colorful. From the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month on New Year's Eve every year, this period of time is called "Spring Day", also called "Dust Sweeping Day". Sweeping dust and doing hygiene before the Spring Festival is a well-known living habit and tradition of our people.
Then every household prepares for the New Year, and people start the holiday about ten days ago and are busy with purchasing goods. , prepare goods, including poultry, wine and oil sauce, roasted seeds and nuts from the north and south, sugar, bait and fruits. You must buy enough. You must also prepare some gifts for wear and tear. When visiting relatives and friends, children must buy new clothes and new hats to prepare the house for the Spring Festival. .
Red paper is posted on the door of the house with yellow characters before New Year's Day. This is a colorful and auspicious New Year picture written on red paper, and the ingenious girls cut a beautiful one. Window grilles are affixed to the windows, red lanterns are hung, or blessing characters and the God of Wealth are affixed. Characters can also be pasted upside down in front of door statues to express blessings to passers-by. All these blessing activities add to the festive atmosphere of the holiday. < /p>
The Spring Festival, also known as the New Year, is an imaginary animal that brings bad luck to people in the past year. The trees are withered and the grass is not born; the year is over. Everything is growing and flowers are everywhere. How can the year pass? There is a custom of burning firecrackers, which also sets off a lively scene.
The Spring Festival is a joyful one. A peaceful festival, a day of reunion, children all leave home to celebrate the New Year. The night before the New Year, which is the 30th year of the twelfth lunar month, is also called New Year's Eve, also known as Reunion Eve. Celebrating New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year customs. At the time of the transition between the old and the new, on New Year's Eve, the whole family stays up together to celebrate the New Year. Eve celebrates Han Yin? *** One of the family joys to enjoy, the New Year in the northern region Eve's custom of eating dumplings, the practice of dumplings and face, and the word "dumplings" are homophones for "dumplings" and "cross", meaning "hehe" and "cross" together, and take over the old dumplings in Italy. The New Year custom of eating rice cakes in the south, Sweet glutinous rice cakes symbolize the sweetness of life in the new year, and everyone is happy in the new year. At the beginning, men, women and children dressed in festive costumes, gave New Year's money to the elderly's families, children's New Year's Day, and had New Year's Eve dinner. Two days ago, San Gengyin New Year's greetings began to visit relatives and see friends, and congratulate each other on the New Year. Blessings, saying: Congratulations on the festival, congratulations on "wealth", and then, worship and other activities
The warm festive atmosphere not only permeates every house, but also on the streets. There are lion dances in local markets, dragon lantern performances, fire tours at flower markets, temple fairs and other customs. During this period, the city is filled with lanterns, and the streets are bustling with people. The Spring Festival is not really over until the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month.
Before the Spring Festival, setting off firecrackers, postal calligraphy blessings on doors and windows, and decorating homes are the most popular holiday customs
Firecrackers. BR />Door firecrackers said: "Chinese people. At the arrival of the New Year, the first thing to do at the door of every household is to set off firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers" , "firecrackers", "firecrackers", their origin is very early, has a history of more than two thousand years, firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a leisure activity on vacation, you can bring joy to the people. Auspicious.
Wang Anshi's poem: One Year's Eve
Amidst the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze brings warmth to Tusu.
The pupils of ten thousand households are like pupils, and there are thousands.
Always replace old characters with new ones.
The scene depicting the Chinese people celebrating the Spring Festival Gala. The sound of firecrackers is a sign of the New Year and an expression of festive mood.
The Iron Flower Chicken
The chicken, pushing the doors and windows, is the evil ghost in the ancient Spring Festival painting. Talking about the people of the Jin Dynasty, the "mysterious" Ji Dushuo said that Qianshan was only said to be when the sun had just risen, and when the first rays of sunlight shone on the trees planted, the chickens and crows were planted. It sang, and the chickens of the world cried along. Cutting chicken for Chinese New Year is, in fact, a symbol of chicken. According to the ancient myth, the Chicken Chongming Bird transformed. It is said that Emperor Yao paid tribute to the Chongming bird in the past and resisted the evil birds. Every year, everyone welcomes the Chongming bird to pay tribute, but not every year. Chongming, bird, human wood carvings or bronze Chongming birds on portals or paintings on doors and windows scare away demons and ghosts so it doesn't dare to come. Since the Chongming bird looks like a chicken, it was gradually changed to painting chickens or cutting window grilles on doors and windows, which also became the source of paper-cutting art for future generations.
In ancient China, chickens were particularly valued, and they were called "the poultry of the five virtues." Han Shi Wai Zhuan gave full play to the idea that the Wende can fight behind with a distance of feet, dare to fight in front of the enemy, and have perseverance. , food greets similar to charity; vigil, however, the day dawns, faith. It's not only a chicken cut and collage chicken during the Chinese New Year, but also a chicken's day on the first day of the new year.
Pasting the New Year picture on wooden boards in Zhuxian Town, the goalkeeper, "I will whip the goalkeeper immediately when I face him"
It is the custom in China to stick to the goalkeeper during the Chinese New Year. The first carved mahogany door god was in human form and was hung in the future. Later, the portrait of the door god was painted and pasted on the door. The legendary gods Tu and Yu Lei are two brothers who specialize in controlling ghosts. They guard the evil spirit of the portal, and no one dares to enter and damage it.
However, the true historical record is not the sacred tea, Yufei, but a celebration of the so-called warriors of ancient times. Records: Ban Gu's "Han Shu·Guangchuan Wangchuan" has a portrait of an ancient warrior Qing painted on the door of the house of King Guangchuan (sick), with a coat and a sword in trousers. In the Tang Dynasty, the positions of goalkeepers Qin Shubao and Yuchi Jingde changed.
"Journey to the West", a more detailed description, "The Dragon King of Jinghe committed himself to heaven for a bet with Mr. Bu, an operator, and was punished. The Jade Emperor appointed Wei Zheng as the official responsible for the execution. The Dragon King of Jinghe asked for To survive, they begged Emperor Taizong to agree to kill the dragon. At that moment, they called Wei Zheng "game". Unexpectedly, Wei Zheng fell so low that he took a nap. Trustworthy. Taizong informed the minister that General Qin Shugui was willing to stand outside the door with Yuchi Jingde in military uniform. Taizong agreed. There wasn’t much to say that night. Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty couldn't bear to paste the true face of the painting on the door, which was difficult to inscribe skillfully. "
Guan Yu and Zhang Fei are also painted like goalkeepers. The statues of the door, one on each side of the family, and their descendants are often painted against the goalkeeper Wu Wenwen. The goalkeepers are divided into three categories: the first category The second type is the "door doorkeeper", which is posted on the main door or the entire door with a width of about five feet and a width of two feet. The second category is the "street doorkeeper", which is posted on a small street door with a height of about two feet and a width of one foot. The doorkeeper will be a The third type is the "gatekeeper" who is smaller than the gatekeeper facing the street, one is black and the other is black. There are two gods, white, but there is also a black god sitting on the largest unicorn ever "like two powdered and oiled comb dolls, each riding the crown of the unicorn prince." Door stickers. This doorkeeper, which is supposed to be posted on the door to express good luck to the newlyweds, also serves as a New Year decoration for ordinary street doors.
Couplet-posting couplets are called Menchun-posting couplets, Spring Festival, neat, even, simple to operate, complex text describing the background of the times, expressing good wishes, our unique literary form. During the Spring Festival, every household, whether in urban or rural areas, must select a bright red Spring Festival couplet and paste it on the door to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival. Since the Song Dynasty, this practice has become popular. From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there has been a great improvement in the ideological and artistic nature of the Spring Festival couplets. The origin of the couplets was written in Liang Shi's monograph "Related Threshold Conversations" Characteristics of various categories of engineering have been discussed.
There are many types of couplets. According to their use places, they can be divided into door frame, horizontal batch, spring rod, and Doufang. The door heart "is fixed to the central part of the upper end of the door; the box" is fixed to the door frame on the left and right sides; the cross split is affixed to the door tail crossbar; the spring strip is affixed in the appropriate place according to the content, " "Dojin", also known as "door leaf", is attached to the furniture and forms a square rhombus on the wall.
While pasting the Chinese characters "福" and Spring Festival couplets, some people want to put big and small "福" characters on the doors, walls and lintels of their rooms. Posting the word "福" during the Spring Festival is a time-honored custom. Our country's folk character "福" represents good luck, wealth and hope. People yearn for a happy life and hope for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and desire, some people just hang the word "福" upside down, which expresses the happiness of "auspiciousness". The folk Mayans' "福" characters are carefully drawn with various patterns, patterns of birthdays, peach , carps jump over the dragon gate, a good harvest, like dragons and phoenixes showing auspiciousness.
Affixing window grilles
>Folks also like to stick paper-cuts - window grilles on the windows not only enhance the festive festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a popular folk art in our country, and has been loved by people for thousands of years, mainly because it is the so-called "window grille" affixed to the window. Window grilles are known for their unique generalization and exaggeration of auspiciousness and good wishes in the new One year, "more than one person's festival is decorated with prosperity every year." Posting New Year pictures
Hanging New Year pictures during the Spring Festival is also a very common New Year picture. It is an ancient folk art that reflects the simple customs and beliefs of people in urban and rural areas. There are hundreds of paintings of thick black weight and color. Thousands of families joined in the festive atmosphere with much prosperity and joy. reposing their hopes for the future. , painting, and pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from "goalkeeper". With the rise of wood printing, the content of New Year pictures is not limited to monotonous themes such as goalkeepers, but is more colorful. Some New Year seminars include "Fu Lu Shou, Three Stars", "Heavenly Official Blessings", "Five Grains Benefit the People", "Six Livestock Prosperity", etc. "Spring" classic color New Year pictures to satisfy people's definite desire to pray for happiness and good harvest.
Hanging Thousands
Spring Festival Hanging Thousands, and have auspicious words engraved on the red paper on it, and the long ruler has a stick in front of it. The figures of the Eight Immortals are hung in front of the Buddha, with more than one thousand people in the family; less with the noble family; the yellow paper is more than three inches long, and the red paper is smaller than the Thousand City Restaurant. The earliest hanging Qiandang system was to hang some money on strings of money (coins), and there was pressure to win the role.
Every group’s New Year’s dinner in the north, some people even prepare a pot of rice that was burned down in the new year a few years ago. The average grains eaten all year round are also eaten in these years. The annual rice in Beijing flower pots is generally cooked with rice and millet, and the mixed slang is called "two rice rice. It comes in yellow and white, which is called silver, gold, silver, gold." "Bo full", "gold and silver rice."