Next couplet: snow washed red maple, frost printed purple leaves, warblers fly daintily crowing grass on the plain ---- autumn wind golden chrysanthemum.
The first line: who left the love than the rain fade, with the wind drift down has not returned. The first line: South through the front North through the front North South through the front through the North and South.
Next couplet: The wind is cold and I am emaciated, and it is difficult to return with the snow. The next line: spring reading, autumn reading, spring and autumn reading.
Previous couplet: The moon shines on the withered trees, reflecting the lonely shadow. The first line: the morning wind lightly rises and brushes the fallen leaves, and different flowers fall to the blue building.
Next couplet: The wind blows the remaining lotuses to hear the sound of the piper. The next couplet: the setting sun slowly reflects the drifting snow, the sweet dancing butterfly floats Zhu Ge.
Previously, the cold plum is half spitting, half containing winter scenery and half containing spring. The first line: look at the sky, look at the sky, look at the sky every day, look at the sky.
Next couplet: The girl is especially delicate, especially holding the pipa, especially covering her face. The next couplet: It is hard to ask for help, it is hard to ask for help, it is hard to ask for help when it is hard for everyone.
Previous couplet: The slanting moon shines through the window, each Kongming Zhuge Liang. The first couplet: the south passes through the front, the north passes through the front, the north passes through the front, the south passes through the north and the south.
Next couplet: the blue sea is alive with tides, support Lu Xun Zhou Shuren. Next couplet: spring reading, fall reading, spring and autumn reading reading spring and autumn.
Previous couplet: White Pagoda Street, yellow blacksmith, red furnace, black charcoal, green smoke, blue light, quenching purple iron, sitting north to south to fight things.
Next couplet: Danshuiwan, bitter farmers, wearing cool hats, bending their backs, facing the hot sun, sweating in salty water, cutting sweet cane, raising wives and children.
Previous couplet: Look at the river tower, look at the river flow, look at the river flow under the river tower, the river tower is a thousand years old, the river flow is a thousand years old.
Next couplet: Yin Yue Well, Yin Yue Shadow, Yin Yue Well, Yin Yue Shadow, Moon Well, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow, Moon Shadow.
Previous couplet: The boatman swings the pulley, bowing and begging for money. The first line: A man endures his wife's sobbing and his mother-in-law's splashing of water.
Next couplet: The girl picks flowers, looking around to find a fragrant branch Next couplet: The monkey roars and pulls out peaches in the old man's hand.
Previous couplet: The painting is a joy to look at, the painting is a pain, please look at the painting people love the painting. The first line: the sky as a disk stars for the son of our three gods and goddesses.
Next couplet: The switch is early, the shut-off is late, let the passer-by come out. Next line: The earth is a basin, the lake and the sea become wine and we all get drunk together.
Previous couplet: Let the people on the people suppressed me benefit me. The first line: Iron Urn City West Golden Gold and Silver Mountain Three Treasure Land.
Next couplet: Repentance after the event to seek the fate of non-fate. The next couplet is: In the country of Huaxia, Confucius, Mencius and Mozi are the saints.
The first line is: "When you visit the West Lake, you have to carry a tin pot, and it is a pity that the tin pot has fallen into the West Lake".
The next couplet is: "I've been to Nanping, and I've been selling blue bottles, and it's a pity that I have to sell blue bottles in Nanping.
The first line is: "The Qin is diligently wiped and the strings are plucked". The first line is: "The present-day scholar is all myopic".
Next couplet: Move your chair and lean on the tree to enjoy the moon. The next couplet is: "The night of the lotus leaves, together with the river industry".
Previous couplet: towards Qin Mu Chu, capricious wind and rain people. The first line is: in the bell and drum tower, the sound of the bell is constantly ringing all night long.
Next couplet: people go I stay, elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation of clear and turbid words. The next couplet is: the water and the Ze boat, the adult water wave wave still go.
Previous couplet: under the hall of acacia, endless acacia is still messy. Upper couplet: Under the pine, the pine seeds fall with each chess piece.
Next couplet: In the pavilion of water and clouds, who is the water flower dancing in the sky. Next couplet: Playing the zither on a rainy night, the sound of rain often accompanies the sound of the zither.
Previous couplet: The people around me are like the people in my heart. The first line: The lotus root also has many threads, and when it meets the edge, it is bound to cause trouble.
Next couplet: The person in front of you is the person in front of you. The next line is: How can the water stop flowing without words?
Previous couplet: the first street of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in Sanwu is famous for both land and water. The first couplet: the boy grinds the ink, the ink splashes the boy a splash of ink.
Next couplet: the eight Min poems Liu Qigong elegance and vulgarity **** appreciation of fame for a hundred generations and a thousand. The next couplet is: the house-slave sweeps the snow, the snow spills the house-slave's two boots of snow.
Previous couplet: heart should be string, hand should be drum, string drum a double sleeve lift. The first line: copper basin freezing ice and gold inlaid with jade.
Next couplet: the string is connected to the heart, the drum is connected to the hand, the heart and the hand are connected to the five rhymes. Next line: Plum blossoms are white in the snow.
Previous couplet: Leakage barrel leakage ship, barrel leakage barrel dry, ship leakage ship full, barrel leakage ship leakage barrel dry ship full.
Next couplet: broken bowl and basket, bowl broken bowl empty, basket broken basket light, bowl broken basket broken bowl empty basket light.
Previous couplet: blowing lamps and stoves, lamps blowing lamps out and stoves blowing stoves burning. The first line: the rain curtain in the western mountains covers the heart.
Next couplet: cut flowers and grass, flowers cut flowers fall grass cut grass grow. Next line: The smoke and haze on the western summit is on the bottom of my sleeve.
The first line: scratching, itching, itching, scratching, not scratching, not itching, not itching, the more you scratch, the more itchy, the more you scratch.
Next couplet: life and death, death and life, no life, no death, no death, early life and early death, early death and early life.
Previous couplet: Touring West Lake, strolling around West Lake, lifting a tin pot, dropping West Lake, pitying the tin pot.
Next couplet: Love loquat, plant loquat, listen to pipa, eat loquat, beautiful pipa.
Sacrificing the Stove
The Spring Festival in China usually begins with the sacrifice of the stove. The folk song "twenty-three, sugar melon sticky" refers to the annual Lunar New Year 23 or 24 days of the sacrificial stove, there is the so-called "government three people four boat family five", that is, the government in the Lunar New Year 23rd, the general people in the twenty-fourth day, the people on the water for the twenty-fifth day to hold a sacrificial stove.
Stove festival, is a very influential in China's folk, widely spread custom. In the old days, almost every house had a "Zao Wang" god in the stove room. People call this god "Sifu Bodhisattva" or "Zaojun Sifu", and legend has it that he is the Jade Emperor's "Nine Heavenly East Kitchen Sifu Zaowangfujun", responsible for the management of the family's stove fire, and is worshipped as a family's protective deity. Most of the Zaowang niches are located on the north or east side of the stove room, with the statue of Zaowang in the center. For those who do not have a Zaowang niche, there are also those who put the idol directly on the wall. Some of the idols depicted only one person, Zao Wang, while others had two persons, a man and a woman, and the goddess was called "Zao Wang's grandmother". This is probably an imitation of the image of an earthly couple. Most of the statues of Lord Zao also have the year's calendar printed on them, with words such as "Master of the East Kitchen", "Supervisor of the Earth", and "Head of the Household" to indicate the status of the God of Vesta. On both sides of the sticker, there is a couplet that says "good things are said in heaven and peace is guaranteed in the lower world" to bless the whole family with peace.
Since the New Year's Eve of the previous year, Mr. Zao has been staying at home to protect and monitor the family; on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, Mr. Zao will go up to the sky to report to the Jade Emperor on the family's good or bad deeds, and the ceremony to send the god of the stove is called "sending the stove" or "resigning from the stove". Based on the report of the Zaos, the Jade Emperor will then hand over to the Zaos the fate of the family in the new year, which should be good or bad. Therefore, for the family, the report of the Zaosheng master is really of great interest.
Zaozao, mostly held at dusk and into the night. The family first to the stove room, set up a table, to the stove wall in the shrine of the Zaowang master incense, and offer with caramel and noodles made of sugar melon. Then, they make paper horses and feed grass to the animals. Offering caramelized sugar to Zaowang is to sweeten his old man's mouth. In some places, sugar is smeared around the mouth of Zaowang, saying, "Say more good things, don't say bad things." This is to stuff the mouth of Master Zao with sugar, so that he will not say anything bad. In the Tang Dynasty, there is a record of "applying wine lees on the stove to make Zaosi drunk" in the "Records of the Years and Seasons in the Emperor's Chariot". After smearing the mouth of Zaowang with sugar, people take down the statue of the god and send it up to the sky with paper and cigarettes. In some places, they pile up sesame stalks and pine branches in the yard at night, invite the image of Zaojun, which has been offered for a year, out of the shrine, and set fire to it, together with paper horses and grass. The yard was brightly lit by the fire, and the family bowed around the fire and prayed while burning: "This year is the twenty-third day of the year, and I would like to send Zaojun to the West. There is a strong horse, there is grass, a smooth and safe journey. The sugar melons are sweet and sweet, so please say good words to the Jade Emperor.
When sending Zaojun, some places still have a few beggars, disguised, singing Zaojun song from house to house, dancing Zaojun, called "send Zaojun", in exchange for food.
The custom of sending stove in the north and south of China is extremely common, Mr. Lu Xun has written a "gengzi send stove that is the case" poem: only chicken gum teeth sugar, can clothes for petal incense. There are no long things in the house, not only less yellow sheep.
He said in the article "Zaojun send Zao day essay": "Zaojun to heaven that day, the street also sells a kind of sugar, there are citrus so big, in our place there is also this thing, but flat, like a thick small pancake. That's called 'Gum Tooth Molasses'. The original intention was in asking Zaojun to eat it and glue his teeth so that he could not flirt and speak ill of the Jade Emperor." The allusion to the "yellow sheep" in Lu Xun's poem comes from "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty - Biography of Yin Zhi": "During the reign of Emperor Xuan Di, Yin Zifang was a filial and benevolent man. Lunar morning cooking, and the stove God see, Zifang worship again to be celebrated; home has a yellow sheep, because of the sacrifice. Since then, after the storm to the rich. To know three generations, and then prosperous, so after often to wax day sacrifice stove and recommend yellow sheep." Yin Zifang saw the God of the stove, kill yellow sheep sacrifice, and then made good luck. From then on, the custom of killing yellow sheep to sacrifice to the stove has been passed down.
In the Tang and Song dynasties, the offerings for Zaos were quite rich. The Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda's "Zaosi words" made an extremely vivid depiction of the folk festival of Zaosi at that time: Ancient legend of the twenty-fourth day of the month of Lunar New Year, Zaojun towards the sky want to talk about things. The cloud car, wind and horses stayed a little, and the family had cups and plates for the ceremony. The pig's head is rotten, the fish is fresh, the bean paste is sweet and loose, the rice bait is round. Men offer their daughters to avoid it, and sprinkle wine and burn money to make Zaojun happy. Don't be angry at the maid's struggles, or at the cats and dogs that touch you. I will send you to the gate of heaven with a full stomach and a long spoon and a short spoon, so don't go back to the clouds and beg for a share of the profits.
The sacrificial stove on the 23rd day of Lunar New Year has a close relationship with the New Year. Because, a week later, on the night of Lunar New Year's Eve, Mr. Zao will come to the earth with other gods and goddesses with the good fortune and bad luck that the family should get. Lord Zao is believed to lead the way for the gods in heaven. While the other gods go back to heaven after the New Year, only the King Zao stays in the kitchen of the family for a long time. The ceremony of welcoming the gods is called "receiving the gods", and for Lord Zao it is called "receiving the stove". The ceremony is much simpler on New Year's Eve, as long as you put on a new stove lamp and burn incense in front of the stove niche, it's all over.
There is a saying that "men don't worship the moon, and women don't sacrifice to the stove". In some places, women do not sacrifice the stove, it is said, Zaowang master looks like a white man, afraid of female sacrifice stove, there is a "male and female suspicion". The origin of Zao Wang Wang has a long history. Among the Chinese folk gods, Zao is considered to be very old. As early as in the Xia Dynasty, he was already a great god worshipped by the people. According to the ancient book "Rituals - Rituals" Kong Yingda sparse: "Zhuanxu's son Ri Li, Zhu Rong, sacrificed to the god of the stove." Zhuangzi. Dasheng" recorded: "The stove has a bun." Sima Biao commented: "Bun, the god of the stove, dressed in red, like a beautiful woman." In the "Clasp of Parks. It is also written in the "Micro Purpose" that "On the night of the moon's darkness, the god of the stove also goes up to heaven for the white man's sins." These records are probably the source of the sacrifices to the God of Vesta. In addition, or that the god of the stove is drilling wood for fire "flint man's"; or that is the Shennong's "fire officer"; or that is the "yellow emperor as stove" "Su Jili"; or that the god of the stove is surnamed Zhang, a list of the word Ziguo; many say different things. Folk are rumored to be a very interesting story.
It is said that in ancient times, there was a family surnamed Zhang, two brothers, brother is a plasterer, brother is a painter. The brother's specialty is the work of the pan pots and pans, the East Street please, West Square invited, all praised him for his base stove high craftsmanship. Over the years, he became famous and was honored as "King Zhang Zao" by all the people in the area. Speaking of Zhang Zao Wang is also strange, no matter to whose home base stove, such as the other family has a dispute, he loves to meddle. When he meets a noisy daughter-in-law, he wants to persuade, and when he meets a fierce mother-in-law, he also wants to say, as if he is an old elder. In the future, all the neighbors would go to him for anything, and everyone respected him. Zhang Zaowang lived to be seventy years old, and it was the night of the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year when he died. Zhang Zao Wang passed away, Zhang family can be a mess, the original Zhang Zao Wang is the head of the family, the family things are at his command, and now the elder brother left the earth, the younger brother will only poetry and painting, although has been the flower of the armor, but has never been in charge of the housework. Several daughters-in-law are clamoring to split the family, the painter was stirred to do nothing, all day long sad face. One day, he finally came up with a good idea. On the twenty-third day of the waxing moon, the first anniversary of the death of Zhang Zaowang, late at night, the artist suddenly called the whole family woke up, saying that the big brother manifested itself. He will be son and daughter-in-law of the whole family to the kitchen, only to see the dark walls of the stove, floating candlelight vaguely revealed Zhang Zao Wang and his late wife's appearance, the family were stunned. The artist said: "I dreamed that my elder brother and sister-in-law had become immortals when I went to bed, and the Jade Emperor had appointed them as the 'Nine Heavenly East Kitchen Secretary Zao Wang Fu Jun'. You guys are always lazy, sisters-in-law do not get along, do not respect and filial piety, make the family God uneasy. My elder brother knows that you are making a fuss about the separation of the family and is very angry, so he is going to go up to heaven to report to the Jade Emperor, and come down to the world on the night of the 30th day of the New Year to punish you." Children nieces and nephews-in-law heard these words, horrified, immediately kneeling down and kowtowed again and again, and busily fetched Zhang Zao Wang usually love to eat sweets to offer on the stove, pleading with Master Zao Wang for forgiveness. From then on, often noisy uncles and brothers and daughters-in-law no longer dare to make a scene, the whole family live together peacefully, the young and the old live in peace. After this incident was known to the neighbors, the rumor spread, and they all rushed to the Zhang family to find out the truth. In fact, the night of the twenty-third day of the waxing moon on the wall of the stove stove king, is the painter pre-drawn. He was pretending to show the spirit of the big brother to scare the children nieces and nephews, I do not expect this method is really effective. So when the neighbors came to find the painter to find out the situation, he had to pretend to be real, the painted stove king statue distributed to the neighbors. Such as these, passed along the countryside, every family's stove room are affixed with the Zaowang statue. As the years went by, the custom of making offerings to Zao Wang on the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year and praying for the safety of the whole family was formed. After the custom of sacrificing to the stove was spread, since the Zhou Dynasty, the imperial palace also included it in the festival, and the rules of sacrificing to the stove were set up in the whole country, which became a fixed ceremony.
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Sweeping the Dust
After the Zao festival, preparations for the New Year begin in earnest. Every year, from the twenty-third day of the lunar month to New Year's Eve, Chinese folk call this period of time "Spring Festival Day", also known as "Dust Sweeping Day". Sweeping is the end of the year cleaning, the north called "sweeping room", the south called "dusting". Sweeping dust before the Spring Festival is a traditional habit of our people. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, cleaning all kinds of appliances, unwashing bedding curtains, sweeping the courtyard, dusting dust cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. The company's main goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers, and the company's goal is to provide the best possible service to its customers, and to provide the best possible service to its customers, and to provide the best possible service to its customers.
Interestingly, the origin of the ancient dust, but there is a rather bizarre story. Legend has it that the ancients believed that people are attached to a three corpses God, he is like a shadow, follow the person's whereabouts, inseparable. The God of Three Corpses is a guy who likes flattery and loves to make a fuss. He often spread rumors in front of the Jade Emperor, describing the earth as ugly and unappealing. Over time, in the Jade Emperor's impression, the earth was simply a dirty world full of sin. Once. The Three Corpses God secretly reported that the earth was cursing the Heavenly Emperor and wanted to plot against the Heavenly Court. The Jade Emperor was furious and sent down a decree to quickly find out what was going on on earth. Anyone who complained about the gods and blasphemed against them would have their crimes written under the eaves of their houses. The Jade Emperor also ordered Wang Ling Ling to cover them up with a web to mark them. The Jade Emperor also ordered Wang Linguan to go down to the world on New Year's Eve, and wherever he met a family with a mark, he would kill all the family members and leave no one behind. Three corpses of God see this plan is about to succeed, take advantage of the opportunity to fly down to the mortal world, regardless of the green and black and white, viciously in the eaves and corners of each house to do the mark, so that the king of the Ling Palace to come to a cut down to the last one. Just when the three corpses of God in the evil, Zaojun found his whereabouts, alarmed, hastened to find each family Zaowang master to discuss countermeasures. So, came up with a good way, on the twenty-third day of the waxing moon to send the stove from the date, to New Year's Eve to receive the stove before, each family must clean the house clean, which household is not clean, the Zaosheng master refused to enter the house. We follow the instructions before the ascension of the King Zaowang, sweeping dust, dusting off cobwebs, wiping clean doors and windows, to clean their own homes to a new look. When Wang Lingguan was ordered to go down to the world to check on New Year's Eve, he found that the windows of every house were clear, the lights were brilliant, and the people were reunited with each other, which made the earth a beautiful place to live in. Wang Lingguan couldn't find any marks indicating the bad deeds, so he was very surprised and rushed back to heaven to report the peaceful and happy situation on earth and pray for a happy new year to the Jade Emperor. After hearing this, the Jade Emperor was greatly shocked, and sent down an order to detain the three corpses of the God, ordered to slap his mouth 300 times, and detained him in the heavenly prison forever. This time, the earthly calamity was spared thanks to the rescue of the God of Zao. In order to thank the king of the stove for people in addition to the disaster, blessing Zhangxiang, so the folk sweeping always in the send stove after the start, until the busy New Year's Eve.
"Lunar New Year's Eve 24, dust sweeping the house" custom, has a long history. According to "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, our country in the era of Yao and Shun on the Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. According to folklore: because of "dust" and "Chen" homophonic, dust sweeping in the New Year has the meaning of "get rid of Chen Bu Xin", and its intention is to all "poor luck", "bad luck" are swept out the door. This custom is the desire of people to break the old and make the new, and the old and welcome the new prayers.
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Chinese New Year Couplets
Chinese New Year Couplets, as a unique form of literature, has a long history in China. It started during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and flourished especially during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has been developed for more than a thousand years today.
As early as before the Qin and Han dynasties, China's folk every New Year's Eve, there is the custom of hanging peach symbols on the left and right sides of the main door. Peach talisman is made of peach wood, two large boards, respectively, written on the top of the legendary ghost-subduing god "Shentian (tu)" and "Yu Shi" name, to drive away the ghosts and suppress the evil spirits. This custom continued for more than a thousand years. It was only in the Fifth Dynasty that people began to inscribe couplets on mahogany boards in place of the names of the gods and goddesses. According to historical records, after the Lord of Shu Meng Chang (chang) in 964 AD New Year's Eve on the bedroom door couplet "New Year's Day, Jiajie number of spring" is China's earliest pair of spring couplets.
After the Song Dynasty, it has been quite common for folk to hang spring couplets on New Year's Day, so Wang Anshi's poem "New Year's Day", which reads, "Thousands of doors and ten thousand pupils of the pupils of the day, and always change the new peaches for the old symbols," is a true portrayal of the spring couplets at that time. Because the appearance of spring couplets and peach symbols have a close relationship, so the ancients also called spring couplets "peach symbols".
In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, strongly advocated couplets. After he settled in Jinling (now Nanjing), he ordered the ministers, officials and ordinary people before New Year's Eve must write a pair of couplets pasted on the door, and he personally wore civilian clothes on patrol, door to door viewing for fun. At that time, the literati also took the title of the couplets as a literary pleasure, write the Spring Festival couplets will become a social trend.
After the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong, Jiaqing and Daoguang dynasties, couplets flourished like the poetry of the Tang Dynasty, and many popular couplets appeared.
With the development of cultural exchanges between countries, couplets were introduced to Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore and other countries. These countries still retain the custom of posting couplets.
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New Year's Paintings
On New Year's Day, people love to hang and paste New Year's Paintings in their living rooms and bedrooms, in addition to putting up Spring Festival couplets and cutting window decorations. A new painting adds a joyful festive atmosphere to every household.
New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, which reflects the customs and beliefs of the people and holds the hope of people for the future. New Year paintings, like spring scrolls, originated from the "door god". The Spring Festival couplets were developed from the names of Shentian and Yubi to words, while the New Year paintings are still developed along the direction of painting.
With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of the New Year's paintings has not only limited to the God of the Door and so on, and gradually invited the God of Wealth to the home, and then in some of the New Year's paintings in the workshop produced the "Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity," "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings," "Five Grains and Plenty of Fortune," "Six Animals Prosperity," "Welcome to the Spring to receive the blessing of" and other colorful New Year's paintings, in order to satisfy the people's desire to pray for a happy New Year.
Because of the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang advocated the Spring Festival sticker Spring Festival, New Year's paintings are also affected by its influence and then prevailed, the country appeared in the New Year's paintings of three important places of origin: Peach Blossom Dock, Suzhou, Tianjin, Yangliuqing, and Weifang, Shandong; the formation of China's New Year's paintings of the three major genres.
China's earliest collection of New Year's paintings is the Southern Song Dynasty "with the fair presenting the face of the country" woodcut New Year's paintings, the painting is Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Ban Ji and green beads of the four ancient beauties. However, the most widely circulated folk painting in China is the one of "The Mouse Marrying Her Marriage". This painting depicts an interesting scene of a mouse marrying a bride in accordance with the customs of the earth. The composition of the painting is vivid and lively. This painting left an indelible impression on Mr. Lu Xun. As he said, this educational and entertaining "The Mouse Marries the Bride" not only arouses the interest of adults, but also has a stronger artistic impact on children.
Folklore has it that on New Year's Eve, the night of the rat's marriage is an auspicious time for people to put some food under the bed, between the stoves, as a gift to the rat bridegroom, in order to pray for a bumper crop in the coming year. Some grandmothers before going to bed often teased the child said: "quickly hide the shoes, do not let the rats steal when the sedan chair." This is the origin of this saying. Therefore, the yearbook "Mouse Marriage" can especially cause children's **** Ming.
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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 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 annual New Year's Eve dinner fully demonstrates the mutual respect and love of the Chinese family members, which makes the relationship between the family closer. Family reunion often makes the head of the family in the spirit of comfort and fulfillment, the elderly see children and grandchildren, family size *** to talk about the family, the past care and raising children to pay the effort is not in vain, this is how happy. And the younger generation, but also can take this opportunity to express gratitude to the parents of the grace of parenting.
Children playing with firecrackers, but also the housewives in the kitchen is the busiest time, New Year's dishes are done a few days before, and the New Year's Eve dinner is always in the New Year's Eve on the day of the kitchen to do out. In the north, the dumplings on the first day of the New Year are also wrapped up on the evening of the thirtieth. At this time the cutting boards of the families are thumping and busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, every household out of the cutting board sound, the streets and alleys out of the sound of firecrackers, small stores and stores out of the "chopping and popping" sound of the abacus and the rhythmic sound of the report, mixed with the sound of laughter everywhere, one after another, the ocean full of ears, interwoven into the New Year's Eve joyful music.
Speaking of the knife and anvil sound of New Year's Eve, Deng Yunxiang wrote the "Yanjing Native Records" but recorded a very bleak story of New Year's Eve: the poor people in the old society have a hard time living, thirty nights is a pass. In one family, the husband had not yet returned with the money by the late evening of the 30th, "the bottles of corn at home were exhausted early, and there was nothing for the New Year's goods. Woman at home to put the children to bed, at a loss, heard the neighbor's anvil sound, pain to the extreme, do not know whether the husband can take some money or something back, do not know how to live tomorrow this year, but also afraid of their own home no anvil sound to make people laugh, then take a knife to chop empty anvil, while thumping the chopping, while the tears weeping down ......, this story makes people listen to it. The story makes people listen to it.
Eat New Year's Eve dinner, is the Spring Festival families the most lively and enjoyable time. New Year's Eve. Abundant New Year's Eve dishes on the table, the whole family reunion, sitting around the table, *** eat a reunion dinner, the heart of the fullness is really difficult to describe. People are enjoying the table full of delicacies, but also to enjoy the happy atmosphere, the table has a big dish, cold pots, stir-fry, snacks, generally less than two things, one is the hot pot, the other is the fish. One is fish. Hot pot boiling, steaming, warm and inviting, indicating that the red hot; "fish" and "Yu" resonance, is a symbol of "good luck", but also a metaphor for "year after year". There are also turnips, commonly known as "choy tau", wishing good luck; lobster, popping fish and other fried food, wishing prosperity for the family, such as "blazing fire cooking oil". Finally, more for a sweet food, wishing sweet days ahead, this day, even if you do not drink alcohol, but also more or less drink a little. In ancient times, New Year's Eve drinking, pay close attention to the quality of wine, some wine is no longer available, leaving only many moving wine names, such as "grape spirits", "orchid cocktails", "Yichun wine", "plum blossom wine", "peach blossom wine", "Tusu wine", etc. Among these wines, the most popular is the "Tusu wine". Among these wines, the one that has been passed down for the longest time and is the most popular is Tusu Wine. But how did Tusu Wine get its name? And what was it made of? Never legend varies.
Tu Su is the name of a kind of grass, and some people say that Tu Su is an ancient kind of house tail because the wine brewed in this kind of house, so it is called Tu Su wine. It is said that Tu Su wine was created by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor at the end of the Han Dynasty, and its formula is rhubarb, atractylodes, cinnamon sticks, windproof, peppercorns, aconite, epiphyllum, and other traditional Chinese medicines into the wine soaked and made. This kind of medicine has the efficacy of benefiting qi and warming yang, dispelling wind and dispersing cold, and avoiding the evil of epidemic. Later by the Tang Dynasty famous doctor Sun Simiao spread. Sun Simiao every year in the waxing moon, always give a packet of medicine to the neighbors, telling everyone to medicine brew wine, New Year's Eve into drink, can prevent the plague. Sun Simiao also named his house "Tu Su House". Afterwards, through generations, drinking tusu wine became a New Year's custom. In ancient times, the method of drinking Tusu Wine was very unique. Generally speaking, people always start drinking from the oldest person, but drinking Tusu Wine is just the opposite, starting from the youngest person. That is to say, when a family gathers to drink Tusu Wine, they start from the youngest children first, and the older ones come after them, drinking a little bit of wine one by one. The Song Dynasty writer Su Zhe's poem "New Year's Day" says: "Drinking Tusu at the end of the year, I don't realize that I am more than seventy years old." It is this custom that is spoken of. Some people did not understand the significance of this custom, and Dong Xun explained, "The young get the year, so they are congratulated; the old lose the year, so they are punished." This custom was still prevalent in the Song Dynasty. For example, Su Shi said in his poem "Outside Changzhou City on New Year's Eve", "But I will put my poverty and sorrows on a long and healthy life, and I will not quit drinking tusu at the end of the day." Su Shi in his later years, although poor and downtrodden, but the spirit is very optimistic, he believes that as long as the body is healthy, although old age does not care, the last penalty to drink Tusu wine naturally do not have to excuse. This unique order of drinking, in ancient times, every time people have all kinds of feelings, so people have a deep impression. Until the Qing Dynasty, this custom is still unfailing. Today, although people are no longer large-scale prevalence of this custom, but in the festival or the usual custom of drinking these medicinal wines still exists.
The New Year's Eve dinner has a lot of names, north and south of different places, there are dumplings, wontons, long noodles, snacks, and so on, and each has its own instructions. Northern people are accustomed to eating dumplings on New Year's Eve, is to take the old and the new, "change of year," the meaning of the child. And because the white dumplings are shaped like silver dollars, a pot of dumplings on the table to symbolize the "New Year's fortune, Yuanbao rolled in" meaning. When some dumplings are wrapped, several coins sterilized in boiling water are wrapped into them, saying that whoever eats them first will earn more money. The custom of eating dumplings was passed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Zhang Zhongjing, the sage of medicine, saw that the ears of the poor were frostbitten in the winter months, so he made a kind of "Cold-removing Ear Soup" for the poor to cure frostbite. He used mutton, chili peppers and some cold and warm herbs, wrapped in dough into an ear like "Jiao Er", boiled in a pot, distributed to the poor to eat, people ate, feel warm, two ear heat. Afterwards, people followed suit and the tradition has been passed down to this day. Eating wontons in the New Year is to take the meaning of the beginning. Legend has it that the world was chaotic before the creation of the world, Pangu opened up the sky and the earth, so that there is a universe of four sides, long noodles, also known as longevity noodles. Eating noodles in the New Year is to wish for a long life of 100 years.
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Watch the New Year
China's folk in the New Year's Eve has the habit of watching the New Year. It starts with the New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time the lanterns are lit, and some people have to eat it until late at night. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", there was a custom of having New Year's Eve dinner at least in the North and South Dynasties.
The custom of New Year's Eve celebration is both a farewell to the passing years and an expression of hope for the coming New Year. Ancient people wrote in a poem, "The year-end vigil": "We invite each other to watch the year-end A Rong home, wax torch red to the blue yarn; thirty-six years have wasted, preferring to cherish the years from this night." Cherishing years is a common human feeling, so Su Shi, a great poet, wrote the famous lines of the New Year's Eve: "Will there be no year next year, and I am afraid of wasting my time; I will make every effort to do my best this evening, and the youths can still be boasted!" This shows the positive significance of New Year's Eve.
The New Year's Eve vigil, commonly known as the "New Year's Eve". Why do you call it "boiling the year"? 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, people called him "year". Every New Year's Eve, the beast will crawl out of the sea to hurt people and animals, destroy the fields, disaster in the people who have worked hard for a year. People in order to avoid the beast of the year, the night of Lunar New Year's Eve, the sky is not dark on the early close the door, do not dare to sleep, sit and wait for dawn, in order to kill 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, congratulations, thankful 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 the vigilance. On the night of the 30th of one year, the beast suddenly scurried to a village in Jiangnan, a village of people almost eaten by the beast, only a family hanging red curtains, wearing a red dress of the newlyweds are safe and sound. There are a few children, in the yard lit a pile of bamboo at play, the fire red, bamboo burning "pop" burst, the beast turned here, saw the fire scared to turn their heads and fled. Since then, people know that the beast is afraid of red, afraid of light, afraid of the sound, every year-end, every family will stick red paper, wear red robes, hanging red lanterns, banging gongs and drums, firecrackers, so that the beast will not dare to come back. In the poem "Shijing-Xiaoya. Tingliao", there is a record of "the light of Tingliao". The so-called "Tingliao" is made of bamboo poles and other torches, bamboo poles burn, the air in the bamboo expansion, bamboo cavity burst, issued by the crackling sound, which is also the "firecrackers" origin. However, in some places, the villagers do not know the New Year beast afraid of red, often eaten by the New Year beast. This matter later spread to the sky of the purple star, he in order to save people, determined to eliminate the beast. One year, he waited for the beast to come out, he used a fireball to knock it down, and then used a thick iron chain to lock it on a stone pillar. From then on, every New Year, people always burn incense and ask Zi Wei Xing to come down to the world to keep the peace.
In this "one night even two years, five nights divided into two years" night, the family reunion, get together. The whole family sits together, refreshments and fruits on a table. On New Year's Day, a big plate of apples is indispensable, which is called "peace and security". In the north, some people also want to provide a pot of rice, burned before, to provide for the New Year, called the "New Year's Eve rice", is leftover rice year after year, year-round food, this year also ate the meaning of the food of the past year. This pot of next year's rice is generally mixed with rice and millet to cook, Beijing slang called "two rice", in order to have yellow and white, which is called "gold and silver, gold and silver pot full of" "gold and silver rice". Many places in the New Year's Eve prepared cakes and fruits, are trying to get a lucky mouth: eat jujube (early spring), eat persimmon cakes (everything is as good as it can be), eat almonds (happy people), eat long-life fruit (immortality), eat rice cakes (a year higher than a year). On New Year's Eve, the family, while eating and having fun, talk and laugh. There are also popular families pushing pai gow, rolling dice, betting on pokies, playing mahjong, the sound of noise and laughter into the climax of the New Year's Eve joy.
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When the midnight handover is the son, the New Year's bell ringing, the whole of China over the land, the sound of firecrackers resonate in the sky. In this "year of the yuan, the month of the yuan, the time of the yuan" of the "three yuan" moment, some places are still in the courtyard of the base of the "prosperous fire", to show that the prosperous gas through the sky, prosperous and prosperous. In the burning fire around the fire, the children set off firecrackers, joyfully jumping around, at this time, the house is bright lights, in front of the court is brilliant sparks, outside the house is the sound of the sky, the New Year's Eve atmosphere pushed to the climax of the bustling. Poets and ink masters throughout the ages have always praised the coming of the New Year with the most beautiful poems. Wang Anshi's poem "New Year's Day" reads: "The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze sends warmth to the people. A thousand doors and tens of thousands of households are filled with pupils on the New Year's Day. I always change the new peach for the old one.
Depicts the people of China to celebrate the Spring Festival grand festive scene, the Qing Dynasty, Pan Rong ah in the "Imperial Capital Years and Years of Jisheng" book, the New Year's Eve firecrackers at that time made the following record: "New Year's Eve of the second, the night of the intersection of the door of the treasure torches competing for the light, the jade Ko competing sound. And firecrackers such as waves of thunder, all over the countryside, all night without stopping." The Dream of the Red Chamber" is also depicted: "the yard under the screen frame, will be set up fireworks hanging ready, the fireworks are all tribute from various places, although not very large. But very delicate. All colors of the story is complete, sandwiched between the various colors of the fireworks. Between words. Outside a colorful put and put. And there are many 'stars in the sky', 'nine dragons into the clouds', 'a sound of thunder on the ground', 'flying ten ringing' and so on the sporadic small cannonballs." From this can also be seen in the old days of the New Year fireworks spectacle.
The sound of firecrackers is a sign of resignation and welcome the new, the flow of the festive mood. The businessman's family. There is another meaning of firecrackers: they are in the New Year's Eve night firecrackers is for the new year Dafa Dali.
After the firecrackers back to the house after the first thing, is to worship heaven and earth, welcome the gods, sacrifices