New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve is the night of the last day of the Lunar month in the lunar calendar, which is linked to the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month). The word "除" in "New Year's Eve" means "to go; to change; to alternate", and New Year's Eve means "the end of the month and the end of the year". ", people have to get rid of the old part of the new, there is the old year to this in addition, the next year another new year's meaning, is the lunar calendar throughout the year the last night. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the old and welcome the new, eliminating disasters and sobbing for the center.
New Year's Eve is the most memorable night of the year. New Year's Eve, the most lively and noisy, the sky a dark, children or half a young man, has long held incense, east a sound, west a sound of firecrackers, bold square big firecrackers, young a hand over the ear, far from exploring the body of the point, the other children with two hands over their ears, nervous and anxious waiting for ...... this scene. Even if people to white head can still remember
New Year's Eve's main activities are three: eating reunion dinner, sacrifices, the year-end vigil.
New Year's Eve Dinner
New Year's Eve is an extremely important day for Chinese people. On this day people prepare to get rid of the old and welcome the new by having a reunion dinner. In ancient China, some prison officials even let the prisoners go home to spend the New Year's Eve with their families, which shows how important the "New Year's Eve Dinner" was to the ancient Chinese.
The New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of names, different from the north and south, there are dumplings, wonton, long noodles and so on. And each of them has its own specialties.
Northern people are accustomed to eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, is to take the old and the new, "the meaning of the new year. And because the white dumplings are shaped like Yuanbao, a pot of dumplings on the table to symbolize the "New Year's great wealth, Yuanbao rolled to" meaning. When some dumplings are wrapped, a few coins are wrapped in boiling water to sterilize them, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money. The custom of eating dumplings. It was passed down from the Han Dynasty. Legend has it that Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor, saw the poor people's frostbite in the winter months and made a kind of "Cold-removing Jiao Er Tang" for the poor people to cure frostbite. He used mutton, chili peppers and some cold and warm herbs, wrapped in dough to form an ear like "Jiao Er", boiled in a pot, and distributed to the poor to eat, and people ate it to feel warmth, and the two ears were hot. Afterwards, people followed suit and it has been passed down to this day.
The idea of eating woncha at New Year is to take its meaning from the beginning. Legend has it that before the world was created, it was a very chaotic state, and it was only when Pangu opened up the sky and the earth that the four directions of the universe came into being.
Long noodles, also known as longevity noodles, are a way of wishing for a long life.
Vigilance
China's folk in the New Year's Eve has the custom of vigilance. The custom of the year-end vigil, both on the passing of the years as the water contains the feeling of farewell, but also on the coming New Year's hope for a better meaning. New Year's Eve vigil, commonly known as "boiled years". Why is it called the New Year's Eve? There is an interesting story that has been passed down from generation to generation in the folklore: according to legend, in the ancient flood era, there was a vicious monster, which people called "Nian". On the night of the New Year's Eve, the beast will crawl out of the sea to harm people and animals, destroy the fields, and bring disaster to the people who have worked hard for a year. People in order to avoid the beast of the year, the night of the Lunar New Year's Eve, the sky is not dark on the early close the door, do not dare to sleep, sit and wait until dawn, in order to pass the time, but also for the courage, they drink. Waiting for the first morning of the year the beast no longer come out, only dare to go out. People meet each other, congratulations, congratulations, glad not to be eaten by the beast of the year, so after many years, nothing happened, people on the beast of the year to relax their vigilance. On the night of the 30th of one year, the beast suddenly scurried to a village in the south of the Yangtze River to the village people almost eaten up by the beast, only one hanging red curtains, wearing red clothes of the newlyweds are safe and sound. There are several children, in the yard point a pile of bamboo at play, the fire red, bamboo burning "pop" sound, the beast turned here, saw the fire scared to turn their heads and fled, since then, people know, the beast is afraid of red, afraid of light, afraid of the sound, every year to the end of the year, every family will be sticking red paper, wearing a red gown, hanging a red light, banging gongs and drums, Burning robes and bamboo. So that the beast will not dare to come back. This is also known as the origin of the firecrackers
New Year gift orange
In China's Guangdong region is popular in the Chinese New Year festivals to give each other the custom of tangerines, this custom is closely linked with the culture of the Chinese nation. In folklore, people used to write the word orange as orange, and the word orange and the word is very similar to the word auspicious, the New Year folk with oranges to each other for good luck, hope that in the new year of good luck, a small orange has also become a talisman of the people.
Posting Spring Festival
Spring Festival couplets, originating from the peach. "Peach talisman", a rectangular peach wood board hung on both sides of the gate in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the book of the Later Han Dynasty and the Book of Rituals, the peach charm was six inches long and three inches wide, and the peach board was inscribed with the two gods "Shentian" and "Yubi". "On the first day of the first month, the peach symbols were made and put on the household, the name of the immortal wood, which was feared by all the ghosts." Therefore, the Qing Dynasty "Yanjing Times and Years" said, "Spring Festival couplets, that is, peach symbols also." During the Five Dynasties, in the court of Western Shu, some people wrote couplets on peach charms. According to the "song history, shu shijia" said: "after shu lord meng chang made bachelor zhang xun title peach board, to its non-work", the pen of his own title cloud: "new year na yuqing, jiajie number everlasting spring", this is our country's first spring festival couplets. Until the Song Dynasty, spring scrolls were still called "peach symbols". In Wang Anshi's poem, there is a line that reads, "Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of houses are open for the day, and new peaches are always exchanged for old ones". In the Song Dynasty, peach symbols were changed from peach boards to paper, called "spring stickers". The Ming Dynasty, the peach sticker was renamed "Spring Festival Couplets". Ming dynasty Chen Yunzhan "hairpin cloud building miscellany" in: "spring couplets set up, since the beginning of the Ming Taizu. Imperial capital of Jinling, New Year's Eve before the sudden decree: public officials and the general public shall be added to the door of the Spring Festival couplets a picture of the emperor appeared in the micro line." Zhu Yuanzhang not only personally out of the city in micro clothes, viewing the laughter and music, he also personally inscribed spring couplets. He passed by a family, see the door has not been posted on the Spring Festival couplets, they went to ask, know that this is a family of castration of pigs, has not yet hired someone to write. Zhu Yuanzhang specially for the pig castration people wrote "hands split the road of life and death, a knife cut off the root of right and wrong" of the Spring Festival couplets. Couplet is apt and humorous. After the Ming Taizu this advocate, since then the Spring Festival couplets will become customary, has been handed down to the present day.
"The New Year is coming!" "The New Year is coming!" . The New Year doll came to earth to offer people the most heartfelt blessings. Let people be happier in the new year! Live a year more than a year better days!
Look, the blue blue sky all of a sudden turned red red red, red red filled with the flavor of joy, people look really happy ah! The asphalt path at this time also seems to have become a gorgeous carpet, carpet on both sides of the flowers, walking in the above really have a feeling of being in a fairyland, the world has become a paradise! People also have in front of the door hung a big red lanterns, rows and rows of neat, red, beautiful!
Listen, far away from the "New Year's song", people listen as if intoxicated, not intoxicated in the song, but intoxicated in this heaven on earth ah! The red sky, the colorful earth, the joyful lanterns, the pleasant "New Year's song", really a good scenery ah!
People put on their new clothes and smiled happily. They went from house to house, wishing each other good luck.
However, was everyone so carefree on this day of celebration? The New Year doll saw that many poor people who survived the disaster did not have food and drink and new clothes like others, they still lived in hunger and cold. The New Year doll dropped a tear of true love, which floated to those poor disaster-stricken areas, and in the twinkling of an eye, the disaster victims also lived a good life, and there was no more sorrow and pain on their faces, replaced by happiness and contentment. The New Year doll revealed a lovely smile and quietly left.
The New Year doll gave a precious gift for the New Year, not only the good wishes, but also the good life of the victims. It went away, but its blessings stayed in people's hearts forever. "It is always happier to give, than to take." As long as everyone gives a little love, stretch out their friendly hands to help those in need, then the world will be full of laughter, happiness and light everywhere!