New Year greetings usually begin at home. On the morning of the first day, after getting up, the younger generation should first pay a New Year call to their elders, wishing them a long and healthy life and all the best. After the elders worship, they should distribute the "lucky money" prepared in advance to the younger generation. After paying New Year greetings to the elders at home, people should greet each other with smiles when they go out to meet, and exchange auspicious words such as "Congratulations on getting rich", "Best wishes in the four seasons" and "Happy New Year". Neighbors or relatives and friends also pay New Year greetings to each other or treat them to drinks and entertainment. In the sixth volume of Chinese Dream in Tokyo, the veteran Meng described the time of Bianjing in the Northern Song Dynasty and said, "On October 1st, Kaifeng Prefecture was opened for three days, and scholars celebrated each other early." In the mid-Ming Dynasty, Lu Rong said in Volume V of Miscellaneous Notes on Gardens: "On New Year's Day in the capital, people who travel to Shu Ren for several days from court officials are called' New Year greetings'. However, Shu Ren worships his relatives and friends. " When dealing with North Korean officials, they are more caring than experts ... "... Gu Tieqing, A Qingren, described in" Lu ","When men and women pay New Year greetings, the Lord leads their humble sons or stops sending their sons to congratulate them, which is called' New Year greetings'. For those who don't see each other for life, it's also time to say goodbye to each other. "
In ancient times, if neighbors had too many relatives and friends, it was difficult to walk around the whole house. It's called "flying mail", and let the servant take the business card to pay a New Year call. There is a red paper bag in front of every house with the word "Fu Jie" written on it, which is the purpose of airmail. This custom began in the upper class of the Song Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, Yantai's Order of Last Month described the Beijing New Year Festival: "It's the moon, the film flies, and the car goes empty." Become fashionable. "A large family has a special" door book "to record the guests' contacts and flying photos. There are four virtual "relatives" on the front page of the door: one is a centenarian who lives in centenarian lane; One said he was rich and lived in Yuanbao Street. One is your infinite adult, living in the university archway; One day, Fu Zhao visited his master and lived in Five Blessingg Building. For good luck. So far, the gift of New Year cards and greeting cards during the Spring Festival is the legacy of this ancient exchange of flying cards.
Scholars in the upper class have the custom of greeting each other with famous cards. Hui Zhou, a poet of the Song Dynasty, said in Qingbo magazine: "During the reign of Emperor Yuanyou of the Song Dynasty, people were often stabbed with servants in the name of Chinese New Year." . At that time, the scholar-officials had a wide circle of friends, and it took time and energy to pay New Year greetings everywhere. Therefore, some close friends did not go in person, but sent their servants to take a card cut with plum blossom stationery, two inches wide and three inches long, with the recipient's name, address and congratulations written on it. In the Ming dynasty, people visited instead of paying New Year's greetings. Wen Zhiming, an outstanding painter and poet in the Ming Dynasty, described this in his poem "New Year": "I don't want to meet each other, but I want to talk, and my famous articles are full; I also throw a few pieces of paper at people. The world is too simple and empty. " The "famous thorn" and "famous divination" mentioned here are the origins of today's New Year cards. New Year cards are used to connect feelings and exchange greetings, which are convenient and practical and still popular today.
From about the Qing Dynasty, the form of "group worship" was added to the New Year greetings. In "Jade Tan with a Hat on the Side", the master of the Qing Dynasty said: "At the beginning of the year, the capital must make a routine group worship to unite the friendship of the New Year and show the nostalgia", and "every year, we must book guests, discuss the value of new year's goods, eat and drink, and have a happy day".
2. Old sayings or ancient poems about New Year's greetings 1, "Selling Dementia Words" (Tang) Fan Chengda
On new year's eve, people don't sleep, tired of being depressed and forcing the new year;
Children are told to take the long street, and clouds are called to sell if they have dementia.
Note: Selling Dementia Words was written by Fan Chengda, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty. The explanation of this poem is that people are awake until midnight on New Year's Eve, praying for the gods to eliminate disasters and bring happiness, and everyone is waiting for the arrival of the New Year.
2. Tian Jia Yuan Ri (Tang) Meng Haoran
I returned to the north last night and set out from the east today;
I'm already strong, and I'm worried about agriculture without money.
Mulberry field cultivates father, lotus hoe follows shepherd boy;
Tian said that this year's climate is abundant.
Note: Tian Jia Yuan Ri is a five-character quatrain written by Meng Haoran, a poet in Tang Dynasty.
3. Yuan Yu Ri Lou Chun (Song)
Every year, the lotus drops leak, and Bijing Tu Su sinks the frozen wine.
Han Xiao is still cheating. She is slim in spring.
Beauty urges a long life, and cypress leaves and green peppers are covered with beautiful sleeves.
Deep in my hometown, I don't know each other, but I only stay with Dong Jun.
Mao Kun (1056—— about 1 124) was born in Shimen, Jiangshan, Quzhou (now Zhejiang). Born in a family of "scholars all over the world". Father Wei Zhan, Fan and Fu are all scholars. I like poetry and songs since I was a child. In the second year of Yuanfeng in the Northern Song Dynasty (1079), I married Ying Zhao in Xi 'an (now Quzhou).
4. Happy New Year (Ming)
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.
(1470.11.28-1559.3.28), formerly known as Bi (or Zuo Bi), is Ming. Since I was forty-two, I have paid more attention to words. Because of its predecessor Hengshan, it was named "Hengshan Jushi" and "Wenhengshan" in the world. Han nationality, a native of Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu), was a painter, calligrapher and writer in Ming Dynasty. Because the official went to the Hanlin to wait for the imperial edict, he personally worshipped Mr. Zhen, so he was called "Wen Hou Zhao" and "Zheng Wenxian". Like Zhu He, Ning Wang hired him because he admired his virtue, but refused to go because of illness.
5, "Chinese and Japanese New Year's Day" (Qing) hole
Xiao Shu's white hair is not full of ups and downs, and the old-age stove actually sleeps.
Cut candles and dry supper wine, and spend all your money.
Listen to the childlike innocence of burning firecrackers and see the change of peach blossom characters.
Add a plum blossom to the drum horn to celebrate the New Year in Lian Xiao.
Kong (1648~ 17 18), whose real name is Ji Chong, is the Eastern Tang Dynasty (Tang Dynasty in Sui and Yuan Dynasties), and his nickname is Shao Tang, calling himself a mountain man. A native of Qufu, Shandong Province, the sixty-fourth grandson of Confucius, was a poet and playwright in the early Qing Dynasty. He inherited the Confucian ideological tradition and scholarship, paid attention to etiquette, music, military literature, farming and other knowledge since childhood, and also studied the law of music, which laid the foundation for future drama creation. The world compared him with Hong Sheng, the author of The Palace of Eternal Life, and called him "Hong Bei Kong".