The Cultural Implication of Spring Festival

1. Update. The biggest difference between the Spring Festival and other traditional festivals is that it is only at the update point of one-year time period. From the time point of view, celebrating the Spring Festival is the replacement of the old year by the new year, which is of renewed significance and reflects that the new year has more important value and is treated and expected more. Old age is the object of expulsion. Legends about the origin of old customs widely circulated among the people show people's attitude of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. Equally important, in the eyes of China people, people's behavior should be timely and timely, and their behavior should be adjusted according to the change of time. The so-called "the world is always ready, and the significance at any time is great." Therefore, when the old year is about to pass and the new year is coming, that is, when the time is about to be updated, the personnel should be updated accordingly, that is, "everything is updated." Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, people always wash their bodies, take off their old clothes and put on new ones. People always clean houses, replace old symbols with "new peaches", and paste pictures of door gods and auspicious pictures, thus making an ordinary and sometimes slightly shabby portal courtyard bright, sacred and full of vitality; People always eat special foods, especially the homophonic jiaozi, which symbolizes the renewal of time. We should also visit relatives and friends, entertain each other and renew social relations. At this time, people also pay special attention to the first time of the New Year. For example, in the Hakka people in western Fujian, the first day is called "Year Day", and opening the door as the first thing in a year is particularly valued. Opening the door is mostly done by older elders, and children are not allowed to intervene. Opening the door should be carried out at the time or zero specified in the general book and the yellow calendar, and worship the gods in the direction of Geely, indicating "opening the door." In short, people wear brand-new clothes in the updated environment and say "Happy New Year" to welcome and confirm the arrival of the new time.

2. celebrate. Celebration is a common attitude towards new life. Just as the newborn is welcomed by the whole family after birth, and the family and even the family will hold a series of celebration ceremonies for it, people will also hold celebration ceremonies in the face of the new time and the coming spring. Of course, the New Year celebrations in China are more because "Year" originally meant a bumper harvest of crops. In Oracle Bone Inscriptions and Jin Wenzhong, the word "Nian" means "follow the grain from people", and the grain refers to the drooping of mature ears of grain. People carrying ripe millet, of course, means a bumper harvest. Shuowen explains that "Nian" means "those who are ripe", while Chunqiu Tuoba Biography says that "all grains are ripe and there are years." Because grain was the most important food crop at that time, people also called the time of grain maturity once a year. When the crops have a good year, it is natural for people who have worked hard for a year to celebrate. As early as the Book of Songs, it was recorded that frost began to fall in September when the cold came, and the threshing floor was cleaned in October. Serve wine to guests, slaughter lambs, and taste for everyone. Boarded the master's hall, everyone raised their glasses and wished a long life. What a touching "New Year" scene!