The old Beijing people, especially pay attention to "New Year", so there will be: wife wife is not greedy, over the Lapa is the year Lapa congee, drink a few days, sugar gourd sticky, Lililala 23, 24, 24, sweeping the house, twenty-five, deep-fried beancurd, twenty-six, stewed mutton, twenty-seven, kill the rooster, the second 28, surface of fat, 29, buns, stay up one night 30 night, New Year's Day twist ... "The Ballad. The ballad listed congee, fried tofu, mutton stew and so on, all Chinese New Year? Gourmet, old Beijing today, these are home cooked, but only in the fifties and sixties in the New Year before a full stomach.
The above kinds of food, of course, only the Spring Festival time is not rich like the ancient ritual ancestors of the pastry - Sachima honey, not only is the Beijing area of Manchu and Mongolian ethnic minorities of the food, the people of Beijing must prepare the food. Some from Beijing, the old custom, New Year's Eve eating fish Xiaokang. The fish must be carp, initially based on the fish gourmet products for the nominal ceremony, later associated with the auspicious words of "auspicious celebration.
As for New Year's Eve, dumplings are wrapped and used as offerings to eat vegetarian dumplings, everyone eats meat, and those living in wealthier people are stuffed with a mixture of meat and vegetables. Even the poorest people eat dumplings "program" in the new year is not small. Dumplings, rice cakes these well-known delicacies of "Old Beijing", they have to play "soy sauce - meat skin, tofu, soybeans, mung beans, water, mustard, etc. Cold dishes, such as color amber, similar to "meat jelly for children. In addition to mustard pieri", which is used to accompany wine and appetizers. Eat greasy food for the holidays, more likely to "light a fire", "phlegm" dishes can make up for this deficiency.
Various meat and vegetable dishes are now prepared by Pekingese also prepared sweets, nuts, seeds and salad for the children", in the so-called "salad children" is today a variety of candied fruits, these small foodstuffs when people sit around the stove, celebrating the New Year's Eve speech in the age of gastronomy.
Today, the name of the ancestor worship ritual offerings and traditional foods, almost entirely preserved, just not so obvious. As for today's Chinese New Year, the table can only be summarized by "rich" Chuanru cuisine, fresh seafood, all of which will appear in the homes of ordinary people, New Year's Eve on the table. Those who emphasize the "new variety" will go to the front of the big restaurants "to celebrate the Chinese New Year!
Eating Lapa congee on Lapa Festival: The eighth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar is also considered a holiday in old Beijing. For this day, the most important thing for every family is of course to make Laha congee. There are several different versions of the origin of Lahai: some say to worship Shennong, some say in honor of Yue Fei, and some say it was passed down from the emperor. The most widespread, however, is seen as a statement honoring the Buddha.
Buddhist "Prayer" records that Siddhartha Gautama became a monk and escaped from the palace Buddha indulged in the mountain, studying the classics, hidden deep in the mountain suffering for six whole years. When he graduated from the school was full, it was in China, which is generally known in Buddhism as "Siddhartha Gautama became the beginning of the day of the waxing moon." "Karma" records Siddhartha Gautama's six years of austerity, attending to personal food, clothing, and eating only hemp and wheat, which could not be fed for years. He graduated at the end of his studies, an emaciated man in straw clothes and shoes. Wearily walked down his Buddha Dudu mountain, sitting in Nepal and even the riverside village begging. Cowherd in the village women, bowl of Bangladeshi aid, milk, boiled and gave food, and soon restored Siddhartha Gautama Buddha Siddhartha's body. After the flourishing of Buddhism, in order to commemorate this incident, the provisions of this day of the ancient Indian people? s "Zhaiseng and relief of the poor and charitable organizations daily diet. Buddhism was introduced to China, and on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month this event of charity gradually became a customized way of cooking "Laba congee". In the early morning of December 8, the Song Shi Refugee in Beijing, the capital of each monastery and sends out congee with seven treasures and flavors. "Seven treasures and five flavors of porridge", means "Laha tubular written in the Ming Dynasty, said: "days". Some Shakesha cooked "Laha congee" is in honor of the story of Siddhartha Gautama, Niger connects the banks of cattlewomen relief.
In addition to making Laha congee for the Buddha's people, and give it as a gift to friends and neighbors.
Laha congee in ancient times was made of red beans, glutinous rice, boiled, and later the ingredients gradually increased. The Southern Song Dynasty was careful of the "Old Story of Wulin" said: "Do walnuts, pine nuts, milk, mushrooms, persimmons, mushrooms, persimmons, chestnuts like congee, i.e., "Lahai congee". So far, China's Yangtze River, northeast, northwest, most people in the region still retain the custom of eating Lahai congee.
There are a lot of materials used in Laha congee, generally with kidney beans, peas, red beans, cowpeas, mung beans, millet, rice, sorghum, rice beans and rice mixed together, plus red dates, chestnuts, such as dried fruits to cook, and drink, plus brown sugar, sugar, roses, cinnamon and other seasonings. Please note that glutinous rice, barley rice, lingzhi rice, chicken head rice, lotus seed meat mixed together porridge, and then covered with crystallized dried fruits, lychee, cinnamon meat, pine nuts, walnuts, black hair, their names, but the putu mood children? Child mode, really good and delicious. Winter to eat a bowl of steaming porridge, these two mouths have nutrition, really increase the blessing of life.
In addition to boiling Laha congee, folk have the custom of soaking Laha garlic. The same Lunar New Year's Eve, this day, peeled garlic cloves into the jar, make up vinegar, closed port children, placed in a warm place, children, only open to like to eat big year dumplings, until New Year's Eve. Soaked cloves children color green, such as emerald, sour jack children to eat a little spicy, it is really something else.
Legend "Laha porridge, next year will be poorer. In the Qing Dynasty, drinking congee to pay tribute to the Yonghe Palace after the Lama boiled good inner palace.
"Song Xiner Laha congee", folk widely circulated: in Laha creditors site in relation to the payment of debts. Generally 30 Lunar New Year, there is no debt.
The 23rd sacrifice of King Zaowang: every lunar month of the 23rd of this month, every family in old Beijing is in a hurry. The Beijing folk song "gatekeeper stove sings:" home every year a family busy, 23rd Festival Zao Wang. Put both sides plus a bowl of water with black hay, burn shares of incense in the stove and two plates of sugar on the table. I hope in the busy headed by praise, praise auspicious fall, I hope the God of Vesta. "This is the first folk song describing the pomp and real scene of every family rush in old Beijing.
The Shang Dynasty has Vesta said. "Zhuangzi Dasheng article stove harmful" record. Phrase says: "bun, Vesta star, remarkable Xi Yi, shaped like a beautiful." "Huainanzi thinking training", said: "Yandi fire died, put the burning stove with." Gao Yu said, "Yandi Shennong, the world of fire, died in Vesta." Ancestor Vesta is a nature that honors ancestors. Vesta is said to know the good and evil of every household in the world. It is related that he said, "God made a good thing and returned to the palace to bring down good fortune. When does Zaojun return to the palace? Most likely before the Chinese New Year. In the new year, blessings of good luck, but every peace, which is a good wish.
Zaojun is also the god of fire. The name of the fire god Zhu Rong, or Hui Lu. Fire God in the legend of the Fire God, the number of the Red Emperor fire facilities, so later fire officials think. As the emperor beast fire officer, later people respect the fire god. Fire God, which is for the benefit of mankind, has become synonymous with fire. Old Beijingers sacrificed to the fire god, sacrificed to the stove army, since ancient times, around the Spring Festival, the weather is dry and a lot of fire. Sinking fire is very necessary.
Said the words: "Song Xiner's Laha congee, the dreaded Guandong sugar life-saving boiled cakes", said the meaning of the Laha Festival information, the upcoming Spring Festival, the New Year's creditors to force the debt, the 23rd to force the debt is the most critical time, is the dreaded Guandong sugar, eating dumplings at midnight on New Year's Eve, general creditors outlawed to not come. Some poor families, meals are hungry, which have money to buy Guandong sugar sacrificial stove of the old Beijing folk songs are still the legendary God chef, surnamed Zhang, a bowl of cold water, three incense, the child performs poorly this year, next year to eat Guandong sugar. "The original Beijing multi-stove Dragon King Temple, the kitchen of every household. In addition, a few people outside, Han Chinese people almost all rush of the King's custom. Zaoshenxing for the folk worship of the God of the stove, also known as the God of the stove, the kitchen, the god in the kitchen. Primitive people in order to show appreciation for the inventor of fire, every summer, the ancestors worship him, the symbol of summer fire, also represents the fire stove. On the twenty-third of Lunar New Year's Day the daily candy rush of the vulgar North China often says: "Twenty-three sugar melons stick, 25, sweep away the dust." Sweeping dust is not only good for the environment, health, good fire protection, because some combustible garbage completely removed, obviously a fire factor.
Lunar month 24 sweep room: Tang Dynasty, "sweep the New Year" style prevailed. Song Wu Mu "Meng Liang Lu", it goes like this: "December do ...... Regardless of the size of the home, all sweeping road dust and dirt door, court household net ...... safety and pray for a new year. "Passed down through the generations, formed the Chinese New Year scanning room before customs. Even the few and poor they have to clean the room. This is not only to meet the preparation of the gods to come down to the world, but it is also a move to wipe out bad odors, bad luck and poor gas. Cleaning the house was a considerable hassle, but not pursued. Employer's command servants made a large house, the occupants usually the whole family hands together, indoor furnishings, all must be transferred to the yard, wiped clean, especially the top of the copper work is absolutely necessary light. Indoor sweep the tower on the ash, cobwebs on the corner of the ceiling, tear off the walls of the old New Year's paintings, and then paste new paintings were repainted or papier-maché on the glass of the windows torn out of the old window, is the New Year's Eve, after wiping pasted into the new window grille, especially in temples, shrines to well-organized cleaning, such as incense burners, candlesticks, fountains, sea lamps bowls on the bowls and other ceremonial vessels must be polished, the old hanging Buddha hanging money problems
In the shrine, all of them are uncovered and burned.
After sweeping the room, people should choose an auspicious day at home bathtub or bath, bath? , barber store, barbershop, indicating the removal of the old and welcome the new.
After sweeping the room, the family began to organize the preparation of goods, incense and wax paper code, products, write spring couplets, cut window flowers, buy hanging money, New Year, firecrackers ... Get ready for the new year.
Lunar New Year's Eve is celebrated on the 30th day of the lunar month. If the New Year, Lunar New Year's Eve on the 29th day of the Lunar New Year. People manage this day is called "New Year's Eve. Of all the festivals, "New Year's Eve" in Old Beijing is probably the busiest and most enjoyable day.
First of all, you have to put up spring scrolls. The main entrance to the street, the door of each household on both sides of the door to paste couplets written on red paper, and paste streaming lintel. Couplet content is mainly what, anyway, are auspicious words for the treasure to increase happiness and longevity lucky. The second paste the doorkeeper. Qin Shubao and Yuchigong of the Tang Dynasty two old Beijing doorkeeper a white face, facing the fight against black, majestic either side. This is to say that, to drive away evil spirits and demons is their strong point. Some families also put thousand. Hang thousand, also known as the doors and windows with red paper or colored paper cutouts, hanging money, said to be able to avoid the poor God.
It is said that the night of New Year's Eve to the first day of the morning, the gods to go down to the world to study the world of good and evil, and these gods, God of Wealth and Master of the Land. On the 23rd day of the lunar month, "God created good" Zao Shen back to earth, at this time, continue to do his "head of household". At this time, it must be respectful and cautious, but also burn incense and kowtow a lot of attention to your immortality in the new year.
New Year's Eve is the most savory time of the cycle for old Beijingers. First of all, the whole family get together for a reunion dinner, enjoy eating the most sumptuous year. Most of the dishes are fish stews, stews, stewed chicken, meatballs, such as meat, pork, refreshing gazpacho, for example, radish, dahongpao radish and spicy vegetables, as well as sugar and spicy cabbage mustard pier. Dumplings in staple places are mainly filled with the usual lamb and cabbage or pork and chives. Be sure not to forget to take the time to wrap the dumplings to eat "Lapa vinegar as a seasoning.
On New Year's Eve a meal, people have to be flush during the meeting, but also say auspicious speeches, heralding the days ahead, the United States, round and round.
The old Beijing custom, in the New Year's Eve night can not sleep, we have to be very much in love to play with him 1 night, the so-called "celebration of New Year's Eve. Celebrate New Year's Eve" has two meanings. For the majority of people celebrating New Year's Eve the night of New Year's Eve Jane borrows the meaning of time; for young people celebrating New Year's Eve is to give parents an extension of life. Setting off firecrackers to celebrate the spring festival has a history of more than two thousand years in China. Ancient people burned bamboo sounds, known as "firecrackers". "The ancient sound of firecrackers was really bamboo, so Chinese poetry, also known as bursting, was extremely hot," says the popularly programmed comedian. Whose descendants rolled, expressed the sound of firecrackers. "The original meaning of firecrackers is to frighten the fear and expel evil spirits. The Jing Chu Chronicle" wrote: "Ao, three original days, the cock crows and rises, the firecrackers in front of the front garden, providing a mandrill evil spirits. "Shen Yi Jing" cloud: "Western mountain swallows, Zhang Zi Yu, foot, sexually unafraid of people, committed very cold, hot, it is known as the mandrill. Bamboo fire, beeping sound, mandrill fear fear.
The offspring, then its shape, gunpowder people. ", of course, this is a superstition today, we will light firecrackers although old, welcome to Italy an auspicious Zhao head, but not what superstitious colors.
Chinese New Year - Lion Dance
In addition to the old year "when" firecrackers bang, in the vast land of China, the traditional lion dance activities with the warm spring breeze and joyful gongs and drums, appearing in towns and rural areas. The annual Spring Festival adds a wealth of joy.
The lion dance is a traditional Chinese folk traditional sports program originated in the North and South Dynasties.
According to legend, in the 23rd year of Yuanjia of the Sui Dynasty (AD 466), Song Jiaosu, the assassin, illegally invaded and ordered the felling of Linyi, King of Linyi Fanyang as a military war. Army soldiers holding spears rode on the backs of tall elephants, so the enemy merely possessed short weapons, it was very difficult to even approach this army like Song soldiers began to suffer heavy losses. Later, the pioneer officer, General Fang Zhenwu? Que came up with an idea. He said that wild beasts are afraid of lions, elephants, may be no exception. So on the surface of the horse at night, there were many fake lions painted with colorful special open mouths. Each "lion" was draped by two warriors, hidden in the bushes. He also planned the battlefield, digging deep and wide traps. Driving like a military attack on the enemy, but unleashing the fake lions, the "lions" bowed with big bloody mouths, flipped, and clawed their way straight at the elephants.
The elephant was so scared that he made a headlong scramble Que also took the opportunity to order the soldiers to release ten thousand crossbows, the frightened elephant suddenly ran around like crazy, and the button out of the trap, like all the captured alive. "...... From then on, the lion was first in the army and then spread to the people. Western Liang made the "Tang poet" a masked hu-man masked lion, carved wooden thread tails, gold-plated eyes and silver post teeth, rising sweaters swinging ears ... "See a similar modern lion dance appeared in the Tang Dynasty.
Why do people like lion dances in the Spring Festival? Some people say that in the early Ming Dynasty, Foshan, Guangdong Province, a monster appeared every age in the outskirts of Foshan City everywhere trampling crops and injuring people and animals, farmers association to match their suffering people put tied into bamboo grates a few lion models and coated with colorful mottled pre-arrangement, when the monster appeared, the golden gongs, Fen Dance, the lions walked together towards the other end of the monster, the monster was terrified, turned around and ran away, and later, the local villagers think! Afterwards, the local villagers believed that the lion was an auspicious omen of success in driving away the evil spirits and suppressing the demon. Therefore, every year, the Spring Festival to play gongs and drums, door-to-door, lion dance New Year's Day show consumers hole pesticide prediction of auspicious intentions.
Lion dance, in addition to the Spring Festival, in the days of celebration, but also often lion fun. Folk lion dance generally two people cooperate to play a big lion (in some places, said too lion), one person poses as a lion (in some ways, said Leo), the other person plays samurai holding hydrangea as a guide, and the first open fist kicks to lure the lion dance. The lion with the drum beat of fast, slow, light, heavy, suddenly eager to the bottom, suddenly look back, trough, suddenly turn back, prostrate on the ground, suddenly chasing their own tails, diverse styles, interesting, in imitation of the action, licking the hair, wiping the feet, scratching the head to wash the ears, adoration, tumbling action techniques, in the balcony across the three mountains, out of the hole, down the mountain, rolling, spitting and green.
Chinese New Year - Juggling Dragon Lanterns
Chinese New Year, in most of our cities and towns, there is the custom of "Juggling Dragon Lanterns".
Juggling Dragon Lanterns", also known as "Dragon Dance", is a popular folk dance in China.
Ancient Chinese people created beautiful wishes pinned on the image of the dragon. According to legend, the ancient dragon, phoenix, unicorn, turtle called the four spirits. Fashion, colorful and colorful, lines of rigid and flexible. In the river of history, shining with a unique artistic luster. As early as in the supplier Yin era, bronze and bone engraved with dragon-shaped patterns, the Zhou Dynasty bronze dragon has become more complete. "Juggling dragon lanterns" in the Han Dynasty folk quite popular. Tang, Song period of "social fire, dance team's wonderful performance, juggling dragon lanterns is a common form of performance in the Song Dynasty Wu animal husbandry. Dream beam record" records: Southern Song line Lin'an (now Hangzhou) "Lantern Night ...... Grass tied into dragons, grass-covered green curtains, tightly arranged lamps and candles 10,000, hope the wind as the shape of a double dragon."
In ancient times, "dragon" as the embodiment of good luck, representing the good weather of the people, the dragon dance prayed to the gods to bless the dragon's desire to achieve good weather harvest season. Interesting people are made of bamboo, iron ligature, outside the silk or cloth dragon dance performances cheerful mood, folk artists continue to process manufacturing, and now juggling dragon lanterns "has developed into a form of perfection, with considerable performance skills and folk romanticism color dance art, y loved by the masses of people.
The performance of "Juggling Dragon Lanterns", "Single Dragon Playing with Pearls" and "Dragon"
Two. Its body is made up of many parts, each spaced about five feet apart, and sects call it a file. It is generally composed of singular dragon body parts. (IX, 11 and 13). The fuse parts can be divided into different degrees of severity, with an average weight of about 30 kilograms. The dragon pearl inside the candle is called "dragon said," point "Bu Long".
Playing methods that revolve around different styles, different features. The main focus is on playing 9 pier skills, *** with the same action: dragon roaming, leading diamond crotch (wearing flowers), Qi drill head and tail, dragon swinging tail and snake retired skin. Juggling dragon lanterns, regardless of the kind of mode of athletic performance, the performance had to use the scattering departure. Play 11, 13 dragon action, the main dragon, the dragon chasing the red pearl soaring jumps, suddenly towering clouds, like flying suddenly low, like the waves of the sea, meandering, very beautiful.
Juggling dragon lanterns, as well as the custom in rural areas, not only is playing in the village outside the village is also shown in the town or city wide streets, squares, to the "racial remarks". Whenever the New Year Lantern Festival, waves of gongs and drums, the sound of firecrackers, a variety of folk "dragon" team to display their talents, inspiring people to turn out.
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Chinese New Year customs
The Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and this year's festivities are the most important, how to live to celebrate this holiday, thousands of years of historical development, the formation of a number of fixed customs, and there are many legends.
1. dust sweeping
"Lunar New Year 24, dust cleaning house," Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals "recorded in the era of Yao, Shun Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. Folk say: "dust" and "Chen" harmonized Chinese New Year dust sweeping "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin, its purpose is to let all the poor arithmetic, swept away all the bad luck. This custom is a new channel for people's desires, commissions and New Year prayers. At the advent of the Spring Festival, families must clean up the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, dismantling and washing bedding curtains sweep six land courtyard, dusting cobwebs, dredging nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joy, sanitation, cleaning usher in spring and joy.
2. Stick couplets
Chinese New Year couplets, also known as door stickers, the Spring Festival, neat, even, simple, complex text describing the context of the times, expressing good wishes, our unique form of literature. During the Spring Festival, both urban and rural areas, every household should select a large red Spring Festival couplets pasted on the door to increase the festive atmosphere. Since the Song Dynasty? Since then, this practice has become popular in the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there has been a great improvement in the ideology and artistry of the Spring Festival couplets written by Liang moment dedicated to the "Threshold of the Associated Threads Series of Words" of the origin of the couplets works of the characteristics of the various categories have been discussed.
There are many kinds of spring couplets, according to their place of use, can be divided into Door Heart Box, Horizontal Pendant Spring Rod, Doufang. Door Heart" is fixed to the upper end of the door's central part; "Box" is fixed to the left and right side of the door frame; "Horizontal Chop" is fixed to the left and right side of the door frame; "Horizontal Chop" is attached to the door's upper end. The "horizontal split is affixed to the horizontal bar at the end of the door; the spring strip" is affixed in the appropriate place according to the content; the "bucket catty", also known as the "door leaf", is affixed to the furniture in the shape of a lozenge in the shadow wall square.
3. Stickers and upside down "Fu"
Folk people also like to put paper cutouts on the windows - window flowers. Window flowers not only bring out the festive atmosphere, set decoration, appreciation and practicality in one. Paper-cutting in China is a popular folk art, loved by people for thousands of years, mainly because it is pasted on the window so-called "window flower window flower with its characteristic generalization and exaggeration of auspicious events and auspicious objects, the head of the holiday decorations thrive on the good wishes of the rich.
Pasted couplets at the same time, some people want to stick on the door of the room, the wall, the lintel of the big and small "Fu". Posting the word "Fu" on the Spring Festival is a time-honored custom of Chinese folklore. The Chinese character "福" means good luck, wealth and hope for a happy life, as well as a wish for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people just "Fu" word pasted upside down, happy "good luck has been to". Folk also fine depiction of the word, "Fu" fine varieties of patterns, patterns of birthdays, peaches, carp jump Dragon Gate, the five grains, the dragon and phoenix auspicious.
4. Paste New Year's paintings
The Spring Festival hanging sticker New Year's paintings are also very common in both urban and rural areas, the thick black weight and color of the paintings of millions of families to join the festive atmosphere of many prosperous and joyful. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art, reflecting the simple customs and beliefs of the people, and pinning their hopes for the future. Painting and pasting Spring Festival couplets originated from the "gatekeepers". With the rise of wood printing, the content of the New Year's paintings are not limited to the monotonous themes such as goalkeepers and so on, more colorful, some New Year's Seminar Fuk Luk Sang Sung Sang Chart Tien Guan Zhi Fu", "five grains and benefit the people", "six animals prosper," the new Spring" classic color New Year paintings to satisfy people's wishes for happy prayers identified. China has experienced three important origins of New Year paintings: Peach Blossom Dock in Suzhou, Yang Liu Qing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; three major schools of Chinese New Year, each with its own distinctive characteristics, were formed.
Today we collect the earliest paintings is the Southern Song Dynasty "Folklore and Fascination of the Kingdom of Fang Rong Chao Myriad woodblock prints, painted with the four great beauties of antiquity: Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Ban Ji and green beads. The most widely used is a "Mouse Getting Married" woodblock print. The funny scene depicts a mouse marrying a bride in accordance with the world's customs. In mainland China, the early days of the Shanghai Zheng Mandolin Calendar and New Year's Paintings combined the two, which was a new form of New Year's Paintings. Combining the two into the painting, later developed into a calendar, popular throughout the country.
5. Keep
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Keeping New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's Eve activities, celebrated New Year's Eve custom for a long time. The earliest record of Eve, as seen in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Chu's "Terroir: The earliest record of Eve, presents each stage, called "feeding the year old," from the neighborhood food and wine, called "doing the year old, the young and the old gather to drink wine and toast the complete, so-called divided year old," and the night stays awake until the dawn, saying, "The night stays awake until the dawn, saying, "The year old is the year old. Dawn, saying: "Celebrate New Year's Eve.
"Double - year - old night even, divided into 2 days of five shifts, New Year's Eve, family reunion, after dinner, lit candles or oil lamps, sitting around the fireplace chatting, waiting for the new year's moment, all the vigils, symbolizing all the evils of the plague epidemic racing car ride, and look forward to good luck in the new year. This custom was later gradually prevalent as early as the Tang Dynasty, when Tang Taizong Li Shimin wrote a poem celebrating New Year's Eve: "Cold resignation from winter's snow, warmth into the spring breeze". Even today, people are still accustomed to celebrate New Year's Eve in the New Year's Welcome.
The ancient celebration of New Year's Eve has two meanings: the elderly celebrate New Year's Eve to resign the old year, the average of the cherished time, and the young people celebrate New Year's Eve to prolong the life of their parents. Since the Han Dynasty, the moment of transition between new and old age is usually midnight.
6. lighting firecrackers.
Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. In the arrival of the new year, the first thing at the door of every household is to light firecrackers Beep Baba firecrackers in the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers are a specialty of China, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers", its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere and are a leisure activity on vacation where you can bring joy to the people and good luck. With the passage of time, firecrackers are more and more widely used, has become more diversified in a variety of colors, on the occasion of major festivals and wedding celebrations, marriages, housing, the opening of the business, you must firecrackers to celebrate the luck of the figure. Liuyang City, Hunan Province, Guangdong Province, Foshan City, Dongyao, Jiangxi Yichun, Pingxiang, Zhejiang, Wenzhou is China's famous fireworks hometown production? Firecracker suit, high quality, products not only sell well, but also exported to all over the world.
7 New Year
On the first day of the New Year, people wake up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress up neatly, go out and visit friends and relatives, and wish each other a happy new year and good luck in the coming year. New Year's Day in many ways, some New Year's Day with the patriarch leading a number of door-to-door; some colleagues in the neighborhood of several people to celebrate New Year's Day, together, to congratulate each other, known as "party. Time-consuming doors after the New Year, some elites and literati would use stickers to throw congratulations to each other, developing "New Year's tablets.
Chinese New Year, Happy New Year, the younger generation to the elders of the first few years, I want to longevity and happiness of the elderly, the elderly can prepare some money in advance to the younger generation, said some money, can suppress the evil spirit of the "old" and "see the ghost of the resonance! The younger generation gets some money because they can spend the year safely. There are 2 kinds of New Year's money, 1 is the only raw threading compiled in the shape of a dragon, placed at the foot of the bed, recorded in the Yanjing age", the other is the most common, and, was wrapped with red paper and give
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