Introduction to Spring Festival Couplets Spring couplets are also called "door pairs", "spring posts", "couples" and "couples". They describe the background of the times and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words. , is a unique literary form in my country. Every Spring Festival, every household, whether in urban or rural areas, selects a red Spring Festival couplet and pastes it on the door to add a festive atmosphere to the festival. The folk custom of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival began in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. According to historical records, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, loved couplets so much that he not only wrote them himself, but also often encouraged his subordinates to write them. One New Year's Eve, he issued a decree: "The homes of ministers and scholars must add a Spring Festival couplet on their door." On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Taizu went on a patrol incognito and was very happy to see the Spring Festival couplets complementing each other. When he walked to a house and saw that there were no Spring Festival couplets on the door, he asked why. It turns out that the owner is a pig butcher, and he is worried that he can't find anyone to write Spring Festival couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang immediately wrote the Spring Festival couplets "Cleave the road of life and death with both hands, cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife" and gave it to this family. From this story, we can see Zhu Yuanzhang’s strong promotion of Spring Festival couplets, and it was precisely because of his strong promotion that the Spring Festival couplets became more popular. By the Qing Dynasty, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets had been greatly improved. Liang Zhangju's monograph on Spring Festival couplets "Three Couples on the Threshold" discussed the origins of the couplets and the characteristics of various works one by one. Spring couplets had become a literary and art form at that time. There are many types of Spring Festival couplets. According to the place of use, they can be divided into door centers, frame pairs, horizontal drapes, spring strips, and squares, etc. The "door center" is affixed to the upper center of the door panel; the "frame pair" is affixed to the left and right door frames; the "horizontal stripe" is affixed to the crossbar of the door; the "spring strips" are affixed to the corresponding places according to different contents; "Dojin" is also called "door leaf", which is square and diamond-shaped, and is often attached to furniture and screen walls. At the same time, every household must paste the word "福", large and small, on the door, wall and lintel. Posting the word "福" during the Spring Festival is a long-standing folk custom in my country. According to "Meng Liang Lu" records: "On the first day of the new year, I shop for department stores, paint door-god peach charms, and welcome the Spring Festival..."; "Every family of scholars and common people, big or small, sweeps the door, removes dust, cleans the courtyard, and The door god hangs a bell, nails peach charms, puts up spring signs, and offers sacrifices to the ancestors." The "spring card" in the article is the word "福" written on red paper. The current meaning of the word "福" is "happiness", but in the past it meant "blessing" and "luck". Posting the word "福" during the Spring Festival, whether now or in the past, expresses people's yearning for a happy life and their wishes for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wish, people simply paste the word "福" upside down, which means "happiness has fallen" and "blessing has arrived". There is also a folk legend about the word "福" being pasted upside down. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, used the word "福" as a secret sign to prepare for murder. The kind-hearted Empress Ma decided to avoid the tragedy of killing, so she ordered everyone in the city to put a label with the character "福" on their doors before dawn. Naturally, no one dared to disobey Queen Ma's will, so every door with the word "福" was posted. One of the families was illiterate and actually pasted the word "福" upside down. On the next day, the emperor sent someone to go to the street and found that every family had pasted the stickers with the character "福", and one family had the character "福" upside down. The emperor was furious after hearing the report, and immediately ordered the imperial guards to kill the entire family. Empress Ma realized what happened and said to Zhu Yuanzhang, "that family knew you are coming today, so had purposely turned the label with the character "福" upside down. Doesn't that mean "luck arrives"?" The emperor heard that it made sense, and gave the order Let him go, and a catastrophe is finally eliminated. From then on, people began to paste the character "福" upside down, firstly to bring good luck, and secondly to commemorate Queen Ma. Folks also use the word "Fu" to make various patterns in detail, such as longevity stars, longevity peaches, carps jumping over dragon gates, good harvests, dragons and phoenixes, etc. In the past, there was a folk saying that "on the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, every family writes big characters". The word "福" used to be mostly handwritten, but now it is sold in markets and shops. Literary interpretation Spring couplets are a type of couplets. Couplets can be divided into various forms such as Spring couplets, birthday couplets, elegiac couplets, door couplets, hall couplets, temple couplets, scenic spot couplets, commercial couplets, game couplets, etc., and Spring couplets are just one of them. The so-called couplets are the vertical and downward couplets that are hung or affixed on the pillars or door frames in front of the hall. Therefore, couplets are also called couplets. This kind of couplet is an independent style consisting of two strings of equal number of words, opposing each other, and having a certain connotation. That is to say, there is no limit to the number of words in the upper and lower couplets, but they must be equal, the content must be meaningful, the level must be regular, and the contrast must be neat. Anything that meets these conditions is a couplet, otherwise it is not a couplet. Couplets are a long-standing literary form unique to our Chinese nation. It originally originated from peach charms. Peach charms are two peach boards hung on door frames in ancient my country. They are painted or engraved with figures or writings to ward off evil spirits. Peach charms appeared as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties. During the Chinese New Year, there was a custom of hanging painted or engraved peach charms of "Shen Tu" and "Yulei" on the left and right sides of the door. So why can peach wood avoid disasters and exorcise evil spirits? According to records in the ancient Chinese mythology "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", there was a mountain in ancient times that was a world of ghosts, called the Ghost Domain. At the entrance of this ghost domain, there is a large peach tree, with a crown that can cover three thousand miles. There lives a golden rooster in the tree, responsible for announcing the dawn every day. Whenever the golden rooster crows in the morning, the ghosts who wander out at night must be driven back to the ghost land. On both sides of the gate of the ghost domain stood two gods and men named Shen Tu and Yu Lei. If ghosts do something harmful to nature at night, Shen Tu and Yu Lei will immediately catch them, tie them up with ropes, and send them to feed the tigers. Therefore, all ghosts are afraid of Shen Tu and Yu Lei.
In this way, the custom of using tea, Yulei and peach trees to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters spread among the people. They used peach wood to carve the images of Shen Tu and Yu Lei, or carved the names of Shen Tu and Yu Lei on peach wood boards and hung them at the door of their homes to avoid evil and harm. This kind of peach wood board is called "Peach Run". How did the Spring Festival couplets come about? It is said that Meng Chang, the king of the Later Shu Kingdom in the Five Dynasties, was a king who liked to be unconventional. On New Year's Eve at the end of 964 AD, he had a whim and asked one of his bachelors named Xin Yinxun to write on a peach board. He wrote two sentences and hung them as peach charms on the door frame of his living room. These two sentences are "New Year's greetings, happy festivals and Changchun". The main idea of ??the previous sentence is: In the New Year, we enjoy the legacy of our ancestors. The main idea of ??the next sentence is: The festival heralds the everlasting spring. Since then, the form and content of Taofu have changed. This is not only reflected in the use of parallel couplets to replace "Shen Tu" and "Yulei", but also the expansion of the connotation of Taofu, which is not only to ward off evil and disaster, but also to Added content of prayers and wishes. This became the earliest Spring Festival couplets in our country. By the Song Dynasty, it was quite common to write couplets on peach boards. Wang Anshi's poem "Yuan Ri" writes: "The sound of firecrackers eliminates the new year, and the spring breeze brings warmth into Tusu. Thousands of households always replace old talismans with new peaches." It reflects that every New Year's Eve, every household The grand occasion of hanging peach charms. At the same time, with the emergence of door gods and the use of red paper to write peach charms, which symbolized happiness and auspiciousness, the mission of the peach charms in the past to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters was gradually transferred to the door gods, and the content of the peach charms evolved to express people's prayers for good luck in the coming year. Good wishes for advent and abundant harvest. The term "Spring Festival Couplets" appeared in the early Ming Dynasty. After Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, became the emperor, he liked the pomp and bustle, and also liked the peach charms posted by wealthy families every New Year's Eve, so he wanted to promote it. Before New Year's Eve one year, he issued an imperial edict requiring every household in Jinling to paste Spring Festival couplets written on red paper on the door frame to welcome the New Year. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhu Yuanzhang inspected the Spring Festival couplets incognito from house to house. Whenever he saw a well-written Spring Festival couplet, he was very happy and praised it full of praise. When he was inspecting, he saw that a family did not post Spring Festival couplets. Zhu Yuanzhang was very angry and asked why. The attendant replied: This is a master who is engaged in killing pigs and trimming pigs. They are very busy during the New Year and have not had time to hire someone to write them. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered people to bring pens, inks, paper and inkstones and write a couplet for the family: "Cleave the road of life and death with both hands, and cut off the roots of right and wrong with one knife." After writing, he continued to patrol. After a while, when Zhu Yuanzhang returned to the palace after completing his inspection, he passed by here again. When he saw that the butcher's house had not posted the Spring Festival couplets written by him, he asked what was going on? The owner of the family replied respectfully: "This couplet was written by the emperor himself. We hang it high in the middle hall and burn incense to worship it every day." Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy after hearing this and ordered his attendants to reward the family with thirty taels of silver. It can be seen that the naming and promotion of "Spring Festival Couplets" were only promoted in every household by Zhu Yuanzhang through administrative orders and imperial edicts. Over time, Spring Festival couplets have become a broad concept, and many subsidiary categories have emerged. According to the place of use, it can be divided into frame pairs, horizontal drapes, spring strips, bucket squares, etc. The "frame pairs" affixed to the left and right doorframes are our common Spring Festival couplets; the "horizontal strips" affixed to the crossbar of the door are the horizontal scrolls of the Spring Festival couplets; the "spring strips" are affixed to the corresponding ones according to different contents. Local single text, such as "Look up to see happiness", "Enter and exit safely", "Congratulations on getting rich" and other words posted in the courtyard during the New Year; "Dou Jin", also called "door leaf", is a square rhombus , usually posted on furniture, single doors or screen walls. During the Spring Festival, people like to paste the word "福" upside down, which belongs to this kind of "Dou Jin". Chinese people’s attachment to Spring Festival couplets If we count from the Qin and Han dynasties, the history of pasting Spring Festival couplets in our country has been two thousand years, so why have our people always been so fond of pasting Spring Festival couplets? This involves the traditional thinking and concepts of our people. As the saying goes: "The plan for a year begins with spring." Our people have had an optimistic mindset since ancient times, that is, placing their hope in the future and praying that the future will bring them good luck. No matter what happy, proud or unsatisfactory things happened in the past year, I always hope that the next year will be better. Therefore, when the New Year is coming, posting Spring Festival couplets just achieves this purpose. best choice. They use Spring Festival couplets to express their joy and happiness for the past year, or to express their expectations and high hopes for the new year. In their traditional concept, having a good start in the year is the most pleasant and auspicious thing. Therefore, every Spring Festival, they express their good feelings and good expectations for the future by posting Spring Festival couplets. . At the same time, our people pay great attention to the festive, auspicious and lively Spring Festival. Eating well, drinking well, wearing new clothes, setting off firecrackers, visiting relatives and friends, etc. are all reflections of the festive psychology. Posting Spring Festival couplets just strengthens people's festive psychology. and an external means of rendering the atmosphere. Requirements for writing Spring Festival couplets Spring couplets are not only a new style derived from ancient Chinese parallel prose, but also a literary form that draws on the tradition of Chinese poetry. It is different from ancient parallel prose and poetry. It is an independent style with a unique form. Although the antithetical sentences in verse or parallel prose are often excellent couplets, they can only be called couplets when they exist independently from verse or parallel prose. Its most striking feature is that it is in pairs in form, the two couplets "oppose" each other, and their contents reflect each other and are closely connected. The upper and lower couplets of a couplet must have a complete and unified structure and clear and concise language. The specific requirements are as follows: First, the number of words in the upper and lower couplets must be equal.
For example: "Wealth will be good in the New Year every year, and peace will be better every year." Each couplet of this couplet has seven characters, and the number of characters in the upper and lower couplets is equal. This is the most basic requirement of the Spring Festival couplets. But there are also other phenomena. After the great thief Yuan Shikai died in 1916, people across the country rushed to tell each other, rejoiced and danced. There was a scholar in Sichuan who promised to go to Beijing to send an elegiac couplet to Yuan Shikai. After hearing this, the villagers were shocked and puzzled. They opened the couplet he had written and read: Yuan Shikai is eternal and long live the Chinese people. After reading this, people couldn't help laughing. The literati deliberately asked: "What are you laughing at?" A young man who was outspoken said: "How can the three words 'Yuan Shikai' in the first couplet match the four words 'Chinese people' in the second couplet?" After hearing this, the literati said, "Chi!" "He laughed and said: "By the way, Yuan Shikai just can't help the Chinese people!" Although this story is about "elegiac couplets", and "elegy couplets" are also a type of couplets, which shows that regardless of Spring Festival couplets Whether it is other couplets, the number of characters in the upper and lower couplets must be equal. If they are not equal, it can only be a very special one. Second, the phrases in the upper and lower couplets must be the same, and the parts of speech must be consistent. That is to say, each phrase that makes up the first couplet must have several characters, and the corresponding phrases in the second couplet must also have several characters. The part-of-speech of the upper and lower couplets means that the category properties of the words, such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, etc., must be arranged in equal order, both the same and relative. For example, as mentioned just now, "New Year brings wealth and good fortune every year, and good years and good years bring peace and prosperity." Each couplet consists of three phrases, namely: New Year—wealth and honor—good luck every year; good years—peace and prosperity—every year is better and better. The upper and lower couplets are the same. The words "new" and "good" in this couplet are both adjectives. "Spring", "Sui", "Wealth" and "Peace" are all nouns. "Nian Nian" and "Bu Bu" are both adverbs, and "好" and "高" are both verbs. This requirement is mainly to use symmetrical artistic language to better express ideological content. Third, the upper and lower lines must be balanced. In the way of expressing the upper and lower couplets, we should pay attention to the relative rhythm, that is, the phase balance between level and oblique. This is mainly for the sake of harmonious phonology, scattered ups and downs, melodiousness and sonority. It is said that Ji Xiaolan came to Hangzhou on a trip south, and a friend held a banquet for him to cleanse himself. During the banquet, the guests and host responded in couplets. Ji Xiaolan was quick in thinking and could make perfect sentences when speaking. His friends were convinced and praised him as an orphan in the North. Xiaolan said disapprovingly: "There are talented people in the north all over the Great Wall and beyond; where do we start talking about it?" A friend said: "I went to the north a few years ago and brought a couplet with me, but no one could match it. "Xiaolan was dubious and asked: "Brother, what sentence did you say that the other party couldn't answer?" His friend read out the first couplet smoothly: The twin towers are faintly visible in all directions on the seventh floor. Ji Xiaolan laughed loudly after hearing this and said: "Such a simple sentence, they feel that they don't bother to answer, so they said it is not correct!" The friend asked in confusion: "Then, how should the second line be correct?" Ji Xiaolan He blurted out: Shaking his palm alone, his five fingers are three long and two short. After hearing this, the friend not only found the second couplet, but also admired Ji Xiaolan's intelligence. This couplet of "Twin towers are faintly visible, seven floors are in all directions; a single palm is shaking, five fingers are three long and two short", which achieves the harmonious balance of levels and achieves the artistic effect of harmonious rhythm, scattered ups and downs, melodious, sonorous and powerful. Fourth, avoid closing your palms. The so-called "putting the palms together" repeats the semantics and wastes pen and ink. For example, one of the Spring Festival couplets commonly used by merchants in the old days said, "Business is booming all over the world, and wealth is booming as far as Sanjiang." This pair of Spring Festival couplets has regular rhythm and neat contrasts, and is in harmony with the atmosphere of "congratulations on getting rich" amidst the sound of firecrackers. It is very popular in the business community. But if you study further, you will find that "connecting the four seas" and "reaching three rivers" have the same meaning, with repeated semantics. The term for the couplet is called "gasshou". There are only fourteen characters in a seven-character couplet, six of which express the content of three characters, which leads to semantic duplication. Couplets are the most concise style in articles, and no waste of pen and ink is allowed. In order to provide more information in fewer words, it is necessary to avoid two couplets saying the same meaning. For example, in the New Year couplets, using "shaking the world" versus "shaking the world", and "sending auspicious light" versus "teng auspicious energy" are also semantic repetitions, and they all belong to the problem of "joining the palms". Fifth, choose the horizontal pattern of the couplet. Horizontal pi, also called horizontal batch, horizontal forehead, horizontal couplet. Except for elegiac couplets and longevity couplets, most of the horizontal drapes are used. There is an inseparable relationship between horizontal phi and the content of the couplet. A good horizontal draping can be the icing on the cake. In other words, a horizontal line is the sublimation of the content of a couplet, the theme of the couplet, and the finishing touch. In terms of writing techniques, the common forms can be divided into three forms: First, freehand couplets, with titles draped horizontally, such as "Celebrate the Spring Festival", "Happy New Year", etc., directly naming the purpose of the Spring Festival couplets; second, freehand couplets, horizontally draped with titles. The finishing touch, for example, "Wealth in the New Year is good every year, and good years are safe and sound" is the "lucky star shines brightly", which reveals that the key to realizing the content of the couplet is "lucky star shines brightly", which is the finishing touch; the third is The couplets complement each other and complement each other. For example, the horizontal comment "to reduce burdens and care for the people, the mighty east wind often brings warmth; to help the poor and relieve poverty, and the Xiaoxiao spring rain always cares" is "the future is bright", which complements and complements each other with the couplets, which not only reveals The people's immense gratitude to the Party Central Committee for its "constant warmth" and "general care" also praised the Party's great future and brilliance. Hengpi mostly has four characters. In the past, Hengpi was written horizontally from right to left. Nowadays, it is mostly written from left to right. Writing from right to left is the formal way of writing. The horizontal banner should be affixed in the middle of the door lintel, and its font should be consistent with the style of the upper and lower couplets, echoing the upper and lower lines.
How should I choose Spring Festival couplets? Spring couplets are widespread, and almost every household posts them during the Spring Festival. Not only that, even some businesses and enterprises such as restaurants, hair salons, hotels, and grocery stores also post Spring Festival couplets. This involves the issue of how to choose Spring Festival couplets. First of all, Spring Festival couplets should highlight healthy aesthetic concepts and aesthetic pursuits. Whether residents or units post Spring Festival couplets, they should reflect a healthy aesthetic taste and pursuit. Some of this aesthetic pursuit is based on the prosperity and prosperity of the motherland. For example, "Spring returns and hundreds of flowers bloom on the earth, and everything in China glows with the warm sun." Such Spring Festival couplets summarize the prosperity of the motherland when hundreds of flowers are blooming and all things are shining, eulogize the new look of the new era, and reveal the creator of the couplets' praise of the ever-changing and beautiful life of the motherland. Some Spring Festival couplets express the family's pursuit and yearning for a better future, such as, "One night, two years in a row, every year will be satisfactory, and the fifth watch will be divided into two years, and every year will be satisfactory." "As time goes by, people live longer, and spring fills the universe with blessings." This kind of family Spring Festival couplets expresses blessings and wishes for the coming year, hoping that everything will go well and that everything will go well. Secondly, it is best to post Spring Festival couplets to reflect your personality. Since posting Spring Festival couplets is to express certain hopes and blessings, then different people, different industries, and different identities will have different wishes and blessings from others, so posting Spring Festival couplets should conform to their own characteristics. For example, "The spring is good and the crops are strong and the seedlings are strong; people are new and the rice is abundant." This is a Spring Festival couplet that reflects farmers' hopes and blessings for the new year. "The department stores are dazzling, and the cabinets are full of spring, summer, autumn and winter goods; the buildings are prosperous, and the east, west, north and south buildings are full of customers." This is a Spring Festival couplet to promote business prosperity. "A piece of chalk turns into continuous rain and nourishes peaches and plums; a three-foot podium sways the spring breeze caressing the pillars." This is the Spring Festival couplet posted by the teacher's family. This kind of Spring Festival couplets that reflect their respective characteristics further highlights their incomparable love for their jobs and their loyal professionalism. Of course, those Spring Festival couplets that start from the country's macro perspective, praise the prosperity of the country, express love for the motherland and socialism, and enthusiastically praise the future of the country and society, can be posted by both families and work units. There is no doubt that these couplets can be posted . When we talk about expressing individuality, we mainly emphasize not posting Spring Festival couplets in series. That is to say, as a working-class family, it would make people laugh if they put up a Spring Festival couplet that says, "If you work hard to raise pigs, the family of three will have a happy life; if you work hard in farming, the fruits will be abundant in the autumn." Third, the posting of Spring Festival couplets. The posting of Spring Festival couplets must comply with traditional rules, and the Spring Festival couplets must be posted vertically. The upper couplet should be affixed to the right hand side (i.e., the left side of the door), and the second couplet should be affixed to the left hand side (i.e., the right side of the door). The upper and lower couplets cannot be pasted backwards. For example, "Spring returns and all flowers bloom on the earth, and the sun warms all things in China." cannot be posted as "Spring returns and all flowers bloom in China." In terms of content, the first couplet and the second line have a causal relationship. Because "spring returns to the earth and hundreds of flowers bloom", it makes "all things in China shine with the warm sun". If it is posted upside down, it will reverse the causal relationship and make it awkward to read. Looking at the level and level, we can judge the upper and lower couplets from the level of the upper and lower sentences of the Spring Festival couplets. The last word "Yan" in the first couplet of this couplet has four tones, which is the flat tone. The last word "Hui" in the second line is a single tone, that is, a oblique tone. Generally speaking, if the last word is in the third or fourth tone (oblique tone), it is the first couplet, and if the last word is in the first or second tone (flat tone), it is the second couplet. But there are also couplets where the last word of the first couplet is in flat tone and the last word of the second couplet is in oblique tone. Don’t think that all the couplets that end in oblique tone are the first couplets. In this case, it is necessary to judge the upper and lower couplets from the content of the Spring Festival couplets. This requires us to read the couplet carefully when posting and truly understand the content of the couplet. In addition, the size of the Spring Festival couplets should be coordinated with the door of your home. It is best to post Spring Festival couplets with a width of 15 to 20 centimeters on the doorways of residents' homes, while it is best to post Spring Festival couplets of about 20 to 30 centimeters on the doorways of merchants' houses, according to the width of the door, so as to appear coordinated and generous. As for the doors of some tall buildings, if Spring Festival couplets are pasted, the width of the Spring Festival couplets should not exceed 40 centimeters. For example: the pear blossom courtyard is harmonious at night, and the catkin pond has a gentle breeze. There are roads in the mountain of books, and diligence is the path; there is no limit to the sea of ??learning, and hard work is the boat. The sound of firecrackers bids farewell to the old year, and the red plum blossoms welcome the new spring. The east wind blows out thousands of mountains of green, and the spring rain sprinkles everything. New business is booming, and the world is prosperous. Wealth is luxuriant, reaching Sanjiang, mountains, green waters, beautiful scenery, good life, a prosperous year, many happy events, and the wind blows the green willows. Sometimes the rain moistens the spring seedlings. Winter has gone, the mountains are clear, the water is beautiful, and spring is coming, birds are singing, flowers are fragrant, lotuses are on all sides, willows are on three sides, one city is full of mountains, half a city is lake, one family is harmonious, one family is blessed, four seasons are safe, four seasons are spring, outside the building is spring, doves are calling for rain, the day is warm, butterflies are turning in the wind, people are diligent, three springs are prosperous, the ground is fertile and grains are abundant, one spring is The six animals and pigs are the first. People open the way to wealth; pigs open the door to wealth. The righteous dog guards the door; the good pig heralds the good years. Si is calling for a prosperous age; Hai is considered a good year. The Heavenly Dog returns to the immortal world; the Pig visits the Gate of Fortune. The heavenly dog ??drives away the cold; the precious pig brings warmth to the spring. The six animals and pigs are treasures; the four seasons of spring are the latest. The pig brings wealth to the house; the swallow brings prosperity and welcomes the spring. At the time of Hai, spring comes to the house; in the Year of the Pig, the house is filled with joy. Farmers are happy with hundreds of pigs; everything is new in China. A jade dog works hard at home; a golden pig makes one rich. Praise the jade dog for keeping the house; praise the golden pig for getting rich. Yang Chun will bring good fortune; the Year of the Pig will bring three more fortunes. The God of Wealth comes with the year; the pig cubs come through the door. The dog leads the year of peace; the pig leads the year of prosperity.
The Heshun family has the words "Blessings and Peace" worth a thousand gold. Hengpiao: Everything is renewed all year round and spring is always in a variety of purples and reds. It blooms forever. Hengpiao: Welcome the New Year. The spring is full of flowers in the world and blessings come to the small courtyard in the four seasons. Hengpiao: Celebrate the Spring Festival. Today's new horizontal batch: everything is renewed, happy to live in a treasured land for a thousand years, prosperous blessings shine on the family, everything is prosperous. Plum blossoms are dotted and embroidered on thousands of mountains. Hengbiao: The spring is full of spring. Clean up the old habits. Five lectures and four beautiful trees. New trends. Hengbiao: Say goodbye to the old and welcome the spring. All the lakes and seas are full of spring scenery. Thousands of rivers and mountains are full of splendor. Hengbiao: Everything is updated 21.
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Every December, on the 19th, 20th, and 21st , within twenty-two and four days, the Imperial Heavenly Supervisor will choose an auspicious day, seal it as usual, and announce it to the world, and all will implement a public holiday. Since then, the Liyuan Theater has been closed on a certain date, with eight groups performing together, and the show will begin on New Year's Day next year. Children who go to school will also be given a holiday by their familiar teachers after the "sealing", which is called "school year off".
The 25th to New Year's Eve is said to be "the days of chaos". "Twenty-seven, wash away the guilt, twenty-eight, wash away the sloppiness."
At the end of the year, throw away the leftover medicine outside the door and burn the collected prescriptions together. , this is called "losing all diseases".
Burn pine branches, cypress leaves, atractylodes, and auspicious pills in the furnace, which is called "Simmering the Year".
The day before New Year's Eve is called "Little New Year's Eve". There is a banquet at home, and people call it "Farewell New Year" when people come and visit. Burning incense outdoors is called "Heavenly Incense" and usually takes three days.
On New Year's Eve, there are a lot of old people.
On New Year's Eve, people go out to visit relatives and friends in python robes and coats, which is called "saying goodbye to the New Year." When family members bow down to their elders, it is also called "Farewell to the New Year". Newlyweds must go to Bo Yue's house to say goodbye, otherwise it will be disrespectful.
On New Year's Eve, sesame straw should be sprinkled on every walk from the courtyard to the front door. This is called "stepping on the New Year".
On New Year’s Eve, it’s the first night of the night, with torches glowing outside the door and firecrackers ringing. There are clusters of carriages and carriages. All the officials came to the court to congratulate them on New Year's Day. At this time, the sound of firecrackers was like waves and thunder, spreading throughout the government and the public, all night long. It is also mixed with the sound of rattles, melon seeds being sold to relieve boredom, glutinous rice wine being sold in ice cups, osmanthus head oil being sold to shake the sweethearts, and vegetable fine powder being sold, which is comparable to the sound of firecrackers. It is really nice to hear. "In the home of the native people, new clothes and hats are worn, and sacrifices are made to gods and ancestors; after burning germanium and silk, the Meishuang family worship together, offer pepper plates, pour cypress wine, close steamed cakes, and sip powder soup. When going out to welcome the occasion, go to the medicine window, If you meet relatives and friends on the road, you will give them a gift and then wish them: "Blessings in the new year." "As for the entertainment utensils, we use carved flowers and fruit for tea, assorted hot pot dishes, soups with goose fat, pork steamed buns, glutinous rice cakes, and yellow millet; for wine and food, we use pickled chicken, bacon, and pickled herons and phoenix fish. , pheasant claws, deer and rabbit breasts; fruits include pine nuts, hazelnuts, peach, apricot and melon kernels, chestnut jujube branches, hawthorn cakes, green branch grapes, Baizigang durians, Qiubo pears, Pingbo fruits, lion tangerines and phoenix oranges, Orange slices and Yangmei are mixed with the delicacies of the sea and the mountains. Even if you are not close to each other, you will still have to drink three glasses of wine to celebrate the occasion. "As the saying goes, it is better to visit thousands of families during the new year. Sitting together as a family, while the four horses are noisy and happy all day long, it can be said to be a momentary victory."
The New Year's meal is made of gold and silver rice, with pine and cypress branches inserted on it, and decorated with money, dates, chestnuts, longan, and fragrant branches. It can only be removed after breaking five. (Called "New Year's rice") Take the larger pine and cypress branches, put them in a vase, and decorate them with ancient coins, ingots, pomegranate flowers, etc. to become a "money tree".
Thread colorful ropes into a dragon shape and place them at the foot of the bed, which is called "lucky money". What elders give to children is also called "New Year's money", and the "stickers" used to withdraw money from money shops are called "notes". Every New Year's Eve, when a wealthy family exchanges silver for money, it is written on colored paper, which is called "red ticket". It means gorgeous and auspicious.
Everyone who sells flowers calls Xunzhi flowers Tang flowers. "Every New Year, we give gifts to each other. The peonies are in bloom, the kumquats are yellow, the house is full of fragrance, the warm fragrance is fragrant, and the three springs are beautiful, all in one place." So people also call it "Tanghua".
Hanging Qian is to use auspicious words engraved on red paper with a long ruler and stick it in front of the door to complement the peach charms. Those with figures of the Eight Immortals on them were hung in front of the Buddha. It is mostly used by thousands of households, but less used by aristocratic families. The yellow paper is three inches long and the red paper is more than an inch long. It is a "small hanging thousand" and is used by shops.
Every New Year's Eve, a long table is placed in the atrium to offer 100 percent. One hundred percent, it is the whole divine picture of the heavens. Before "hundred percent", one layer of honey offerings is displayed, which is called "full offering". The inscriptions on the offering include the Eight Immortals, pomegranates, ingots, etc., which are called "flowers for the Buddha". When it is time to receive the gods, the 100% will be burned, and then incense will be burned until the Lantern Festival. This is what people often call the "Heaven and Earth Table".
Entering every household on the first day of the first lunar month
On the first day of the first lunar month, we get up at five o'clock, burn incense, and set off paper cannons. On this day, they visit each other, regardless of their status, and run back and forth for several days, which is called "New Year's Eve". Things to eat, such as: Pepsi Lucky Box, made of persimmons, lychees, longans, chestnuts, ripe dates, etc.
On the first day of the lunar month, we offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors. We keep cutting paper for more than ten feet and offer it in front of our ancestors, which is called "Qianzhang" and burned.
In the first ten days of the first lunar month, New Year's greeters come to the door, shout for greetings, send business cards, and leave in a hurry. Most of them do not need to meet the host.
The first to fifth days of the first lunar month are commonly known as "Powu". According to the old custom, it is necessary to eat "water dumplings" for five days. In the north, it is called "boiled dumplings". Nowadays, some people only eat it for three or two days, and some eat it every other day, but there is no one who doesn’t eat it. This is true from the prince's mansion to the small households in the streets, even when entertaining guests.
The lanterns of the first month have always been concentrated on the "Liubu" inside the front door, called "Liubu lanterns", and the lanterns of the "Ministry of Industry" are the most praised. Ice lanterns, birds and animals, and all kinds of things in the world are made with great craftsmanship.
The lantern market used to be concentrated in the East and West Fourth Archways, but later moved to Langfang Toutiao.
Liulichang... Every New Year's Day to the 16th, department stores gather, with glazed lamp screens, thousands of hanging canopies, jade shafts and toothpicks, thousands of contacts, books filled with books, and treasures. Play on the streets. There is also "the Qin Pavilion and the Chu Pavilion are dedicated to music and singing, and the ladies and gentlemen travel in BMWs and fragrant cars." It is also a scene during the New Year Festival in Old Beijing.