Custom of new year's day
New Year's Day is coming. On the first day of the new year, people will celebrate this special day in various ways, such as eating rice cakes. The rice cake is also called sticky cake, which means it gets taller every year. Therefore, eating rice cakes on New Year's Day is intended to pray for a high New Year. It is made of glutinous rice in the south and sticky millet in the north.
The rice cake has a long history, and the rice cake in the Han Dynasty has existed? Rice cake? 、? Cake? 、? Bait? 、? Hey? Same name and surname. Is there a rice cake in the 6th century cookbook Eating Times? White cocoon sugar? The Book of Qi Yao Min in the Northern Dynasty recorded the method of making cakes by grinding rice into powder.
Eating rice cakes on New Year's Day was very popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially in the south. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Volume II of Scenery of Imperial Capital recorded that the first month was New Year's Day. Happy, eat jujube cake, eat rice cake every year? . When Jiajing was in the north of Hebei Province, Wei County Records said local dishes? Steamed mutton cake? .
In the south, Jiangsu and Zhejiang local chronicles such as Suzhou and Jiading are called? Cake savings? According to the records of Qiongtai in Guangdong written by Zheng De in Ming Dynasty, local people eat spring cakes: before New Year's Day, glutinous rice flour (J? Spring cakes steamed in sugar or ash juice cages, about five or six inches thick, mixed with fruit, cut into annual tea and give back to each other. ? Its shape is similar to today's birthday cake.
Volume 12 of Jia Qinglu, a Qing guru, recorded in more detail, saying that millet flour and sugar are called cakes. Rice cake? There is a difference between yellow and white. How much is a square foot? Square cake? , and like a gold ingot? Cake ingot? , used to give answers between relatives and friends on New Year's Eve. In addition, there are slim ones? Top cake? , generous? Half a cake? . On holidays, rich people hire people to make cakes, which ordinary people can buy in cake shops.
Chinese New Year Poems for Junior High School Students
1, Wang Anshi in Yuanri (Northern Song Dynasty)
The roar of firecrackers, the old year has passed; The warm spring breeze ushered in the New Year, and people happily drank the newly brewed Tu Su wine.
The rising sun sheds light on doors of each household, New peachwood charm is put up to replace the old.
2, New Year's Day test pen (Ming)
When the clouds in the sky celebrate, the temple struggles for the knowledge of grass.
Next to the wall, there is wine to entertain guests, and young children are singing and enjoying New Year's poems.
When you are old, you will meet a new year, and there will be better flowers in spring.
Where is the evening breeze? When it blows to the moon in the east.
3. Ding Mao Yuan Ri (Qing) Money
A bottle of wine at the age of one pays homage to the court, and young children bring clothes to comfort the screen.
I like to eat meat when I wait on my mother, but I prefer to dream about fish in 2008.
The hook curtain wants to pick up the new nest swallow, and the ink stone is also sparse.
I went to the neighboring chicken millet bureau, which has nothing to do with me.
4. Tian Jia New Year (Tang) Meng Haoran
I returned to the north last night and set out from the east today;
I am forty years old. Although I have no official position, I am worried about farming.
Mulberry field cultivates father, lotus hoe follows shepherd boy;
Tian said that this year's climate is abundant.
5, Yuan Ri (Yu Louchun) (Song) Mao Que
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.
The origin of new year's day
About 50,000 years ago, the way of life of ancient Egyptians changed from nomadic to farming, and they settled on both sides of the Nile. Whether their agriculture can harvest well is closely related to the flood of the Nile. After long-term observation, the ancient Egyptians found that the flooding time of the Nile was regular, and they recorded this time on bamboo poles every time, from which they learned that the two flooding times were about 365 days apart. At the same time, it was found that Sirius and the sun rose from the horizon at the same time when the Nile came near Cairo at high tide today. Therefore, the ancient Egyptians set the beginning of the year as this day. This is the earliest origin of New Year's Day.
New Year's Day is a compound word in Chinese, which means beginning or first. Dan is a hieroglyph, which means that the sun rises from the horizon. There are hieroglyphics of "Dan" on bronzes in China during the Yin and Shang Dynasties.