It depicts the grand festival scene of China people celebrating the Spring Festival. In the book Jing Di Ji Sheng at the age of four in the Qing Dynasty, Pan Rongbi recorded the firecrackers on New Year's Eve at that time: "On New Year's Eve, we meet at midnight, and the treasures and fires outside the door compete for glory. The firecrackers are like thunder, all over the government and the people, all night." There is also a description in A Dream of Red Mansions: "There are screen frames and fireworks in the yard. These fireworks are tributes from all over the world. Although it is not very big, it is extremely exquisite. There are all kinds of stories and fireworks. During the talk, the color outside was put and put. " There are also a lot of sporadic firecrackers, such as "the sky is full of stars", "Kowloon enters the clouds", "the ground thunders" and "flying to ten ring". "From this, we can also see the grand occasion of setting off fireworks in the old Spring Festival.
Firecrackers are a sign of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new, and also an expression of festive atmosphere. Businessman. Setting off firecrackers has another meaning: they set off firecrackers on New Year's Eve to make a fortune in the new year. But according to the old custom, respecting the god of wealth should be the first, and setting off firecrackers should be the last. Legend has it that if you want to get rich, firecrackers will ring at the end. In the old society, since the financial door was opened at midnight during the Spring Festival, there were people who sent the God of Wealth, holding a piece of paper and shouting outside the door: "The God of Wealth is coming!" At this time, in order to meet the God of Wealth, the owner of the house gave a reward to the bearer and sent it to the mouth of the God of Wealth. Of course, it is inevitable to say something auspicious. For example: "Gold and silver treasures are rolling in"! There are a pair of golden lions on the left and a pair of golden phoenix on the right! And so on. There is also a man dressed as a god of wealth, wearing a red robe, a gauze hat, a fake beard on his mouth and a yellow cloth bag to collect money, followed by several drummers, who distributed the god of wealth from door to door in order to ask for a reward. Every time people go to the door, they sing, "The left compartment is full of gold and silver, and the right compartment is full of treasure." A lot of good luck words went on until the owner happily took over the red paper statue of the god of wealth and gave them some money. After thanking them, they knocked on the door for a while and went to another house with the sound of gongs and drums.
After setting off firecrackers and returning home, the first thing everyone does is to worship heaven and earth, god and ancestors. In ancient times, this custom was very popular. Due to different local customs and habits, the forms of ancestor worship are also different. Some go to the wild to sweep graves, and some go to the ancestral temple to worship their ancestors. Most of them put their ancestral tablets in the main hall in turn at home to show their worship, and then worshippers worship them in order of age. After paying homage to their ancestors, southerners looked at the auspicious trend of this year recorded in the almanac, lit lanterns and torches, carried pots and wine, incense and set off firecrackers, and opened the door to meet the western gods, which was called "going out to the Arabian Nights" or "going out", which was called "going out for a visit" in Zhejiang and "going out for happiness" in Shanghai. This custom is to get good luck and pray to God for a smooth year. On New Year's Eve, you stay up all night. That night, housewives were busy hanging lanterns, making colorful decorations, putting up Spring Festival couplets, cutting window grilles and putting up New Year pictures, decorating their homes in red, green and green, adding a rich atmosphere to the festival. Perhaps what children expect most is lucky money. Lucky money is given to the younger generation by the elders. In some families, everyone is not allowed to leave the table after the New Year's Eve. After everyone has finished eating, the elders give it to the younger generation to encourage their children and grandchildren to learn and improve in the new year. In some families, parents put their children under pillows after they fall asleep at night, and in more families, children gather in the main hall, shouting Happy New Year to grandparents and parents, and queuing up to bow down; Then reach for the red envelope. They even took back their grandparents' bedrooms and ran to the bed together, shouting "lucky money, lucky money!" " The old man felt that it was not lively enough, so he pretended to be stingy. From bargaining to siege, he finally dug up the red envelope of his ancestors. Everyone took them and roared away. The old man was overjoyed to see this scene and thought it was a good sign for all the best in the new year.
People's traditional ideas always like to get more good luck during the Spring Festival, and hope everything goes well. There are many old customs among them. If there is a custom of prohibiting the use of brooms everywhere, it is considered that using brooms in the New Year will sweep away luck and wealth, and it is difficult to make good luck in the new year. If you must sweep the floor, you must sweep it from the outside to the inside. In order to make this custom popular, the first day of the first month is also designated as "broom birthday". Don't scold children during the Chinese New Year, and you must pay special attention to what you say. If a child accidentally breaks his rice bowl, people will never scold him, but say that he is "safe all the year round", because the homonym of "broken" and "old" flushes the ominous atmosphere. Chinese New Year is coming, and adults are most afraid of children saying something unlucky. In some places, in addition to looking horizontally and vertically, you will wipe your mouth with a piece of red cloth or toilet paper, which means that even if you say something unlucky, it is equivalent to farting. Others put oranges and lychees on pillows and call them "year-old fruits". Oranges and lychees are homophonic "Geely", which means good luck in the coming year. There are also many customs around the world that use objects to symbolize good luck. For example, "The West Lake Tour" has "nave has hot chestnut charcoal, which is called the prosperous phase; The left wall is affixed with Qinglong, which is called spring; Sesame poles are inserted on the eaves, which is called litres; If you sign a cypress branch on the persimmon and give it to a big orange, everything will be fine. "In some areas, there is also the custom of stealing the statue of the god of wealth, and hiding it in the crotch after stealing, in order to take the meaning of the idiom' the god of wealth is put in the warehouse (pants)'. Among these whimsical tastes and customs, there are many people who have worked hard in the past dynasties to flatter the god of fate.
When the door is opened in the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to set off firecrackers". After the firecrackers, the ground is broken red, which is called "full house". At this time, the streets were full of anger and joy.
During the Spring Festival, in the streets and alleys, large families hang lanterns and tie the knot. In the streets and alleys, all kinds of arts and crafts in the village offer their high skills. In busy rural areas, theatrical troupes are invited to perform, and all kinds of entertainment and play are also carried out, such as listening to Taoist feelings, dancing yangko, singing flower drums, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns and so on. People celebrate the Spring Festival happily.