There is a legend about the origin of the Spring Festival. In ancient China, there was a monster called Nian. Its tentacles were very long and fierce. Nian lived on the seabed for many years, and climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devouring livestock and killing people. Therefore, every New Year's Eve, people in the village fled to the deep mountains to avoid the harm of the "Nian" beast. One year on New Year's Eve, an old beggar came from outside the village. The villagers were in a hurry and panic. Only an old woman in the east of the village gave the old man some food and suggested that he go up the mountain quickly to avoid Nian beast. The old man smiled and said, "If my mother-in-law lets me stay at home for one night, I will definitely drive Nian beast away." The old woman continued to persuade and begged the old man to laugh without saying a word. At midnight, Nian beast broke into the village. It found that the atmosphere in the village was different from previous years: the old woman's house at the east end of the village had red paper on the door and bright candles in the room. The beast Nian trembled and let out a long whistle. When we were near the door, there was a sudden explosion in the yard, and Nian trembled and dared not go any further. It turns out that Nian was most afraid of red, fire and explosion. At this time, my mother-in-law's door was wide open, and I saw an old man in a red robe laughing in the hospital. "Nian" was frightened to disgrace and fled in confusion. The next day was the first day of the first month, and the people who came back from refuge were very surprised to see that the village was safe and sound. At this time, the old woman suddenly realized and quickly told the villagers the promise of begging for the elderly. The story soon spread in the surrounding villages, and people all knew the way to drive away the "Nian" beast. From then on, every year on New Year's Eve, every family posted red couplets and set off firecrackers. Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of the first day, I want to say hello to my relatives and friends. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.
3. On New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month, we will stick up door gods, put up Spring Festival couplets, celebrate the New Year's Eve, set off firecrackers, eat New Year's Eve, give lucky money and worship our ancestors.
4. Post blessings, stick grilles, New Year pictures and thousands of pictures. These all have folk functions of praying and decorating the residence. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art in China. They reflect people's customs and beliefs and place their hopes on the future.
5, set off firecrackers, China folk have "open the door to set off firecrackers". That is, when the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, which is a kind of entertainment in festivals and can bring happiness and good luck to people. Wang Anshi's Poem Yuan Ri
6. Spring Festival is a festival for family reunion. Children who leave home must travel thousands of miles back to their parents' home. The night before the real China New Year is called reunion night, and families have to sit around and wrap up jiaozi. So how did the year come from? According to folklore, in ancient China, there was a monster called Nian, with long tentacles and a ferocious face. I lived at the bottom of the sea in 2000, climbed ashore every New Year's Eve, devoured livestock and killed people. "Year" came, the trees withered and the grass grew; After the Year, everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend a year? It is said that Nian is most afraid of red, fire and explosion. Since then, every year on New Year's Eve, every family has posted red couplets and set off firecrackers to drive away the "Nian" beast; Every household has a bright candlelight, so it is better to wait for the New Year. In the early morning of New Year's Day, we should say hello to our relatives and friends and celebrate each other's safe passage for one year. This custom has spread more and more widely, and has become the most solemn traditional festival among the people in China.
7. In the folk, people also like to stick various paper-cuts on the windows-window grilles. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been loved by people for thousands of years. Because it is often pasted on the window, it is also called "window grilles". With its unique generalization and exaggeration, window grilles show auspicious things and good wishes incisively and vividly, and decorate festivals with colorful colors.
Pay new year's call
On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to pay New Year's greetings, some of which are led by the same patriarch from door to door. Some colleagues invited several people to pay New Year greetings; Others get together to congratulate each other. This is called "group worship". Because it takes time and effort to pay New Year greetings at home, some elites and scholars later congratulated each other with stickers, thus developing the later "New Year cards".
The origin and legend of the Dragon Boat Festival originated in memory of Qu Yuan.
According to the historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated the use of talents, empowerment, and prosperity, and advocated joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was deposed, expelled from the capital, and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, which have a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Poet's Day). In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he was always reluctant to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.
Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. People followed suit after seeing it. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.
After that, on the fifth day of May every year, there is the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine. In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Here is an interesting legend. In 340 BC, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu, faced the pain of national subjugation. On May 5th, he threw a big stone into Guluo River with grief and indignation. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from damaging his health, people have thrown rice in bamboo tubes into the river. In the future, in order to show respect and memory for Qu Yuan, people will put rice in bamboo tubes and throw it into the river to pay homage. This is the origin of the earliest zongzi in China. The 15th day of the eighth lunar month is the traditional Mid-Autumn Festival in China and the second largest traditional festival in China after the Spring Festival. Also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Reunion Festival and August Festival. It is a traditional festival of Han nationality and most ethnic minorities in China, and it is also popular in neighboring countries such as Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Because autumn (referring to the lunar calendar) is in July, August and September, August is in the middle of the year, and August 30th is in the middle of the year, it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. So there are more people in the sky than family reunion at night, so it is also called reunion festival.
Mid-Autumn Festival is an ancient festival in China. Because August 15th is in the middle of autumn, it is called Mid-Autumn Festival. The festival is characterized by eating moon cakes and carrying lanterns.
Mid-Autumn Festival, like Lunar New Year, is a happy family. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon is the roundest and brightest, and the moonlight is the most beautiful. Every household puts fruits and moon cakes on the table in the yard, and the family eats moon cakes while enjoying the moon. It is "a round in the sky, everyone looks up." What a beautiful picture.
The traditional food of Mid-Autumn Festival is moon cakes, which are round, symbolizing reunion and reflecting people's good wishes for family reunion. Eating moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival is said to have started in the Yuan Dynasty. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang led the Han people to resist the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty, agreed on the August 15th uprising, and put a note in the moon cake to convey the news. The custom of eating moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival spread among the people.
Later, Zhu Yuanzhang finally overthrew the Yuan Dynasty and became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Although Manchu people later entered China, people still celebrated this festival, which symbolized the overthrow of alien rule.
celebrate
The Mid-Autumn Festival in Singapore is quite lively. One month before the festival, mooncake lanterns began to go on sale. Moon cakes not only satisfy people's tastes, but also serve as a memorial to their ancestor Yue Bai. More importantly, they are holiday gifts for relatives and friends. Besides moon cakes, another good festival of Mid-Autumn Festival is "grapefruit".
For young people, what interests them is all kinds of beautifully made lanterns. They also take advantage of the festival to show their talent in making lanterns. Adults can also take part in the annual lantern making competition and lantern exhibition.
Singaporeans can also attend the Mid-Autumn Festival party held by the People's Liaison Office or the Guild Hall. It is also a beautiful thing for a family to enjoy the moon together. Putting melons and fruits, moon cakes and children's lanterns at home is a warm and harmonious Mid-Autumn Festival night.
In order to make the Mid-Autumn Festival atmosphere stronger and the celebrations more common, we can suggest hanging lanterns in public places and holding solve riddles on the lanterns and other activities.
Paper-cutting is one of the treasures of China folk culture and art. These colorful, vivid and beautiful paper-cuts are deeply loved by me! Behind every vivid paper-cut, there is a mysterious and wonderful story. "Follow the image" and "random conformation" to shape, and at the same time create a variety of mascots by means of metaphor, and combine the agreed images to express their psychology. The figurative meaning of pursuing auspiciousness.
I like paper-cutting, and I have to start with the influence of art at the earliest. I remember that since I was four or five years old, my versatile father often drew small animals for me, and all kinds of small animals could be painted vividly with a few strokes. My father was really great in my mind at that time. Later, my parents sent me to my grandmother's house because of their busy work. Grandma has a pair of skillful hands. She often folds a piece of paper into different patterns with only a few scissors. Yellowing paper, dull scissors and exquisite patterns all left a deep impression on me. Perhaps from then on, I was conquered by the charm of art, and perhaps it was this family atmosphere that gave me my first hazy understanding of art.
Because I have an art foundation, learning paper-cutting is like a duck to water. However, paper-cutting is a meticulous work, and people who have no patience can't do it. It is a pity that a work will be finished soon, but it fails because of careless cutting of a line. It can be said that this kind of paper-cutting can also cultivate a person's accomplishment. Only by understanding the mystery with your heart can you make your works natural, simple and fresh, clever in your own mistakes, bold in roughness and smooth in subtle ways.
For me, paper-cutting is a pleasure. Staring at the pattern, I cut it like scissors, and the slight sound when scissors hinge paper is like beautiful music. In this beautiful music, lovely animals "live" and beautiful flowers "open" ... I used to be restless. Because I like paper-cutting, I can work for five or six hours without looking up. My friend said I was a little.
Every Chinese New Year holiday, colorful and exaggerated patterns are active on the doors and windows of every household in Chaoshan area. This is one of the special handicrafts in Chaoshan-paper-cutting.
As the Spring Festival approaches, shops begin to sell couplets, lanterns and other handicrafts, and of course paper-cutting is also indispensable. Paper-cut patterns are varied, and cutting peony flowers symbolizes prosperity in the new year; Cutting dragons and phoenixes symbolizes that families can be totems like dragons and phoenixes; Cutting radish symbolizes that there will be a good color in the new year, because radish is also called "vegetable head" in Chaoshan area, and its homonym is "color head" ... No matter what pattern is cut, it has special significance. Chaoshan people regard paper-cutting as an expectation and a sustenance.
There is a legend about paper cutting! A long time ago, the living conditions of human beings were not so superior as they are now, and they were tortured by monsters all day. One day, a peony flower grew bigger and bigger, and suddenly a bird flew out of it. This bird is full of auspicious spirit. It flies around every day, and monsters and poisonous insects dare not come out to harm human beings. Human beings are extremely happy. Until one day, the bird flew away inexplicably. In order to prevent the monster from coming out, people carved it into a bird with wood, so the monster wouldn't come out. Later, when Cai Lun made paper, people used paper-cutting instead of woodcut, and many auspicious patterns evolved.
Chaoshan paper-cut culture has a long history, but now it is facing extinction. Let's inherit this folk traditional craft together! Paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China. It has a long history and unique style, and is deeply loved by people at home and abroad.
Paper cutting is mainly made of scissors and hinges, not machines. The main raw material is paper. After cutting, stick a few paper-cuts (usually no more than 8), and finally process the pattern with sharp scissors.
Paper-cutting has a wide spread, a large number and many styles, and its foundation is more prominent than any other art. The living animal paper-cutting includes: cattle, dogs, cats, sheep, pigs, camels and so on. Paper-cut plants are: plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, rose, bamboo, peony and so on; Paper-cutting itself can also be given as a gift to others, such as: blessing, happiness, longevity, Chinese zodiac, window grilles, lotus flowers with carp on them (meaning more than a year) and so on.
Paper-cutting magnificently embellishes people's ordinary life, fully entrusting and expressing the Chinese nation's pursuit and yearning for truth, goodness and beauty. Our traditional culture in China is profound and has a long history. Today, I want to introduce the traditional culture of China-paper-cutting! There are many kinds of paper-cuts, such as window grilles, wedding flowers, fireworks, shoe flowers, door rafts, Wanzhou cloth shadows, fragrant flowers, paper-cut flowers, paper-cut flags, paper-cut Chinese characters, paper-cut pictures and so on. The content of paper-cut contains a strong flavor of life. People's familiar and favorite fish, insects, birds and animals, flowers and trees, pavilions and bridges have all become paper-cut patterns. Whenever China New Year is a holiday or a happy event, people will cut some words, such as "Fu" and "Xi", to celebrate. Paper-cutting painting is cutting a picture on a piece of paper. Let's look at this "scholar" first. There is a gentleman reading a book, and the book is on it. At first glance, he looks like a scholar. Look at this "Phoenix Beats Peony". There is a phoenix playing on the peony, like a child playing. ...
China has many traditional cultures, such as calligraphy, embroidery, drama and so on. Well, are there many traditional cultures in China?
The origin of the name
The four gentlemen of Mei Lan and Zhu Ju, with their elegant and indifferent characteristics, have been loved by the world for thousands of years and become a cultural symbol of personality. Although this is their own in our nature, it is also related to the appreciation and admiration of literati in past dynasties. The theme of "Four Gentlemen" has been accompanied by the development of China's flower-and-bird painting.
The reason is not only a kind of natural beauty reflected by the natural attributes of "Four Gentlemen", but more importantly, the ancients injected a kind of personality strength, a kind of moral sentiment and cultural connotation into "Four Gentlemen" and realized self-worth and personality pursuit through "Four Gentlemen". In the end, "Four Gentlemen" became an excellent way for the ancients to express their feelings, enrich themselves and show their noble character.
Four gentlemen
"Four Gentlemen" is the traditional theme of Chinese painting, with plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum as the four gentlemen. This is a traditional moral model. In the Ming Dynasty, Huang Fengchi compiled Four Spectres of Zhu Mei Lanju, and from then on, Mei Zhulanju was called the "Four Heavenly Kings". Painters use "four gentlemen" to flaunt the noble character of gentlemen.