Why is1February 30th called New Year's Eve?

I. Legendary stories (illustrative stories)

Nian beast is a terrible animal. They all came out to eat at the end of the year, so the whole family got together for a big dinner and waited for death. Later, Nian beast stopped eating and found that Nian beast was afraid of red. Therefore, it is a custom to stick red paper at home to avoid animals in the future.

1February 30 or 29 is the last day of the year, commonly known as the Chinese New Year, and it is the most important festival of the year. In farming society, it is related to the harvest of crops. The word "Nian" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions of Yin Ruins may also be interpreted as "bumper harvest", and in the interpretation of Chinese characters, it is interpreted as "ripe grains". Therefore, the ancient New Year in China is similar to the harvest festival of aborigines today, indicating the end of the year and celebrating the harvest of crops. On the other hand, it is to worship the gods, thank them for their blessing and pray for good luck in the coming year.

Second, related customs.

The Chinese New Year in agricultural society takes a long time, commonly known as "entering the new year", generally starting from1February 24 to the fifth day of the first month.

(a) to send god (December 24th).

It turns out that this day is for the god of the earth, and rich sacrifices are prepared, including tea and fruit sacrifices. Later, people sent the "Kitchen God", so people prepared desserts, sent the Kitchen God who was in charge of the world back to the sky early in the morning, and reported the good and evil of each household to the Jade Emperor until the fourth day of the fourth lunar month. In order to live a few days without God's supervision, people usually "send God early and receive God later", hoping that the God who stays at home can say a few more good words, so they all worship with sweet materials (maltose and sweet glutinous rice balls as sacrifices) and "eat sweet and speak good words", and stick "good words to heaven and bad words aside" on both sides of the idol. After giving gifts to God, we are going to celebrate the New Year, so there are "24 gifts for God, 25 handkerchiefs", and then we will have a general cleaning on the 26th, commonly known as "dust removal", which means getting rid of all the bad luck of the old year. At this time, various service industries, such as hairdressing, beauty salons, taxis and so on. , will start to raise their own door-to-door service fees (price increase), and the general public will agree to do as the Romans do and give more money, because these people work hard all year round, but there is no year-end award! In recent years, consumers' awareness is very strong, and "fare increase" is usually allowed only two or three days before New Year's Eve. After giving gifts to the gods, they began to sell auspicious decorations for Spring Festival couplets and Chinese New Year. The more advanced the times, the more plastic ornaments are used. And all kinds of "golden jujube trees" and "kumquat trees" in the "flower market" also appear in black and pink, ready to add joy to everyone.

(2) steamed cakes (steamed cakes)

Usually, steaming rice cakes begins on1February 25th and 26th. Traditional tastes are sweet and salty, and there are the following:

1. Sweet rice cake:

There must be a sweet rice cake, because "eat sweet and have a good New Year". Sweet cakes are made of glutinous rice. Eating rice cakes means "getting higher every year" and "getting higher step by step".

2. Vegetable head pot (radish cake)

Radish cake is vegetable head nail, because "vegetable head nail is a good color", and "vegetable head nail" is the most abundant vegetable in this season, which is most in line with economic benefits. The vegetable head pot is steamed with rice and radish.

3. Hair (cake):

Because the shape is like a flower, and the cake has the meaning of "getting rich", it has the meaning of "getting rich"

Cai said that the red vermicelli paste (red pigment) was added before the cake was made to match the red Spring Festival couplets.

Red reflects each other for good luck, but nowadays people don't eat too much pigment, and most of them don't use pigment!

4. Taro and steamed stuffed bun:

Taro is a cake made of taro and glutinous rice, which means "protecting (taro) and grandchildren". Baozi fruit, on the other hand, has the auspicious meaning of "salty gold and sweet silver" and is also the product of glutinous rice.

(3) Handling New Year's Goods

Including food, drink and clothing, because agricultural associations often don't open until after the fifth day of May, so we should store more food so that there will be no shortage of food during the Chinese New Year. In recent years, with the development of industry and commerce, the atmosphere of Chinese New Year is relatively light. Supermarkets open on the first day of New Year's Day, so there is no need to prepare a lot of food, and with the opening of the concept of nutrition, fresh food can be eaten healthily.

(4) New Year's Eve

1. Worship God:

On the morning of New Year's Eve, people prepared flowers and fruits to worship the Jade Emperor, thanking him for his protection over the past year and praying for peace and success in the coming year.

2. Resign:

On the afternoon of New Year's Eve, every household decorated with lanterns and decorated with colorful decorations, and prepared bowls, bowls and rice cakes for sacrifice to ancestors and gods. There must be bowls and rice cakes in the offerings, which means that you are getting taller every year, rising step by step, and your career is developed. There are also spring flowers on rice, which are called "spring rice". Spring is homophonic with "leftover", which means "wealth" and a bowl of "long-year food". These offerings have auspicious significance. Sacrifice on New Year's Eve afternoon usually has auspicious significance. Usually, the ceremony of ancestor worship on New Year's Eve afternoon is called "Farewell to the Old Year" or "Farewell to the Old Year".

Sacrificing ancestors on New Year's Eve is a big folk festival, and those who have ancestral halls should open them. Before the sacrifice, the door couplets, the door gods and the peach charms have all taken on a new look, with big red candles lit, and the whole family lit incense in order of age. Sacrifice on New Year's Eve is to thank the gods and ancestors for their blessings in the past year and to seek more happiness in the coming year.

3. Post Spring Festival couplets:

According to legend, the Spring Festival couplets evolved from peach symbols, in which the door gods were painted on red wooden boards, and later the door gods were painted on paper, and there were also auspicious New Year pictures. New Year pictures are usually very popular in Chinese mainland, the most famous of which is Yangliuqing New Year pictures. Spring Festival couplets are a folk art that combines literature and calligraphy. Every household posts all kinds of Spring Festival couplets suitable for their own homes. From the Spring Festival couplets, it can be seen that the host is a businessman, a farmer or a scholarly family, such as:

"Tianzeng Life Insurance, spring will do its best."

"reunification begins, Vientiane is renewed"

"Three sheep open Thailand, five blessings"

"Door to door, there is thousands of books at home."

"Faithfulness has been passed down from generation to generation for a long time, and poetry books last forever."

"Spring breeze and spring rain are always there, so IKEA will let nature take its course."

In addition to the long Spring Festival couplets, small red notes with all kinds of auspicious words are plastered all over the house. Because of different positions, the content is different.

? Divine table-"Spring" and "Blessing"

? Door-"Congratulations", "Congratulations on getting rich", "The way to make money",

? Rice vat-"full" and "bumper harvest"

? Kitchen-"Delicious Food"

? Pigpen and henhouse-"Six Livestock Flourish"

? Shops-"See money every day" and "Rich in financial resources"

4. Around the stove: New Year's Eve dinner

After the sacrifice to God, the whole family sat around a table to eat, commonly known as "around the stove". The ancients sat on the floor and ate around the stove. After having a table, they put the stove under the table, not forgetting the ancient custom of surrounding the stove, and spread money around the stove to symbolize wealth. The dishes prepared around the stove also have auspicious significance, such as good head and long life. Fish balls, meatballs and shrimp balls have three meanings, and fish has more than one meaning every year. The slower you eat, the better. The meaning will last for a long time. There is only fish in the dish that can't be eaten, so you have to keep it.

5. lucky money:

After surrounding the stove, the elders divided up the lucky money, and used 100 yuan made around the stove or copper coins with red lines (for longevity) as lucky money. Now, paper money is wrapped in red paper, commonly known as "red envelopes".

6. Shounian:

It means "long life". After handing out the lucky money, the family sat around the fireside and talked happily about Da Dan, which is called longevity. Folks believe that keeping the old age has the function of praying for parents' longevity, which is a filial performance of protecting parents' longevity and praying for family peace. After midnight, the big family exploded and bamboo greeted the New Year.

Third, related Chinese textbooks.

(a) the text

Sit around the fire/stove

Sweet Spring Festival

make a fortune

Caitouguo (radish cake) is a good color.

perennial vegetable

Fish (more than one year)

Shi Miracle (Qi) Jia

paste up Spring Festival couplets

spring

happy

Delicious food from land and sea-all kinds of delicious food.

Twenty-nine (or thirty)

Paopaozai

(2) Sentences

1. Ancient people played on 25th and 29th to prepare for China New Year.

In ancient times, I prepared food for many days as early as the Spring Festival, and now I can buy food on the first day.

Dihua Street in Taipei has been closed since1early February.

In ancient times, every family spent the Spring Festival around the stove.

At thirty (twenty-nine), every family gathered around the stove.

6. Everything you eat in the New Year bodes well.

7. Eat the head of the dish, eat the gross (money) of the dish.

8. (Treasure in China) Sweet gold, salty silver.

9. The new year begins and the old year ends.

10. Don't owe money for the New Year.

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(c) Ballad: the first day of the first month.

In the first month, the bride does not leave the hall.

On February 2 nd, wear brown grass and worship the ground.

On March 3rd, Tao Zi and Li Zai shouldered each other.

On April 4th, Tao Zi came and Li Zi went.

On May 5, watermelons lined up on the road full of cars.

June 6, Xiancaoshui, pansies.

On July 7th, longan pomegranate broke.

On August 8, pull beans, pull vines and pull pods.

On September 9, the wind blew all over the sky.

1October 10, the frosting of wax gourd fell into the box.

1 1 month 1 1 day, my family rubs balls.

1February 12, we celebrate the new year.

Fourth, suggest teaching activities.

(1) Legendary Story Competition 2008 (Junior Grade)

Young people and children like listening to stories best, so interested children can tell stories to the whole class. Teachers should listen to stories in advance and hope that different versions of stories will be presented to children.

(2) Taste the New Year at school (junior high school)

The national characteristics of Taiwan Province people and China people are implicit expressions of blessing, wealth and peace. Therefore, the dishes eaten in the New Year include four auspicious meanings, so the whole class can prepare several New Year dishes in groups and invite parents to participate.

(3) Write auspicious words (middle school)

There is calligraphy class in grade three, and this activity can be combined with calligraphy teaching. In the third grade, I wrote "Spring", "Happiness" and "Lucky for Wealth". In the fourth grade, you can write "Congratulations to everyone", "Congratulations on making a fortune", "Good luck" and "Seeing money every day" and post them in the right place at home during the New Year.

(4) Write Spring Festival couplets (senior)

In grade five or six, you can choose a pair of Spring Festival couplets that you like to write, and then write them and post them in front of your house. In the sixth grade, you can try to write Spring Festival couplets with your own surname or first name, which is more interesting.

(5) Say an auspicious word (middle and low)

Everyone learns a Chinese New Year auspicious phrase in his hometown dialect, such as: Congratulations on getting rich, eating a good first course, making a fool of yourself, being sweet, starting from home after eating chicken, and so on.

(6) Say four sentences (advanced)

Four sentences (couplets) is a traditional local literature, especially used in New Year or festive events. This is a seven-character quatrain. People used to be proud of being able to speak four sentences, but now it has gradually disappeared. Unfortunately, it is a beautiful parallel prose. I hope the child can say a word or two. For example:

1. New Year knowledgeable person. The sound of guns resounded through the sky. 3. Congratulations to all of you.

Every household is crowded with people, agriculture, industry and commerce to celebrate the New Year. Congratulations to the girl for not having a runny nose.

Welcome the new and discard the old. I sincerely wish every family great development. The elderly can 100% eat healthily.

Generations of descendants of the ancient philosophers, men, women and children, Mrs. Qi and twins live happily.

4. A safe family photo. 5. Congratulations on the new year. 6. Streets and alleys are full of troubles.

Rich and prosperous Changchun wants entertainment, drum music, noise and vibration, dragon and lion dances.

Children and grandchildren welcome the new year, abandon the old and welcome the new year, and wish good luck in the new year.

Fame spreads far and wide, and it has been handed down from family for thousands of years.

7. Advocate eight tones for noisy. I hope my brother A Bing is in the army. 9.2. I wish farmers to be farmers.

Congratulations on the good luck in the New Year, whether it is a bumper harvest in all corners of the country or all corners of the country, it is a good winter.

Men, women and children, defend the country, defend the people, protect mountains and rivers, and live and work in peace and contentment.

Happy New Year, Four Seasons Red.

10. Zhu San driver 1 1. Zhu San Office Civil Servant 12. Wu Zhu's fiance.

The New Year's car went smoothly, and the New Year's plan was really completed.

Get along well with people and colleagues.

Make a lot of money every day, sir. Geba has a high status. Congratulations on the New Year.

13. Liu is willing to be a tailor 14. Artillery fire welcomes the new and eliminates the old. Boogie keeps ringing.

Happy new year, first prize, adults, smile, visit relatives and friends.

Pattern, new style, good posture, all the best in the new year, and good spring in the four seasons.

Business is booming, laughter, family reunion, happiness and well-being, and all the best.

16. Happy New Year. 17. Good weather and a hundred flowers blossom. 18. Congratulations and congratulations.

Gunfire is louder than the sky. Congratulations to my friends, brothers and sisters.

Welcome to the new year. Bohai Sea Teng Fu Huan Kai Tai Vientiane Renews Economy.

Xiaoyao Fairy is famous in Kyushu, and the whole world wishes you good luck.

19. Happy New Year. 20. In spring, there is a lot of dry kunfu everywhere. 2 1. He Xinchun is shooting and beating drums.

I wish my wife a dragon, rich in financial resources and rich in profits, and I wish you a happy new year.

Everything is prosperity, prosperity, prosperity, agriculture, industry and commerce, prosperity.

Yin's parents have been begging at sea for thousands of years, and the boat is full of wind and the spring is gratifying.

22. The weather is sunny during the Spring Festival. 23. Congratulations on your good luck in the New Year. 24. Vientiane is full of vitality.

The streets are noisy and peaceful, and every household welcomes the Spring Festival.

Evil spirits, evil spirits and wealth. Guanbai Industry goes out to seek wealth and good luck every year.

The whole family is safe, the four seasons are red, the lights are bright, and the New Year is celebrated.

25. Congratulations to everyone. Congratulations, everyone. 26. Treasure Island is rich in three rivers. 27. Farmers are gardeners and farmers.

Spring Festival, New Year's Day, Good Day, Ruiqi, Wan Li Land, Good Harvest and Good Winter.

All ages live and work in peace and contentment in the new year.

Vientiane updates great Geely. Congratulations. Congratulations. You've all been out several times.

28. Xinzheng Buji's birthday is 29. Spring breeze warms the golden hall 30. Happy new year.

The streets and alleys are full of gloomy clouds. I wish young people all the best in the new year and exert their wisdom and courage.

Begging for the sea, catching fish, leaving the port, gongs and drums are loud, celebrating happiness and helping the weak, helping the poor and longevity.

Farmhouse farming is good, winter is good, six animals are prosperous, and people are strong in four seasons.

3 1. Happy Chinese New Year. 32. Buji keeps ringing. 33. Safe family photos.

Men, women and children are all happy, and every family is decorated with lanterns, and Changchun wishes happiness.

Prosperity, prosperity, good farming, bright sunshine, good time, and children's love and literature.

Everything goes well, everyone is a talent, and his reputation has been passed down from generation to generation.

34. gongs and drums rang all over the sky

Have a happy Spring Festival.

The development of scholars, agriculture, industry and commerce

There was a rich woman and a good son for ten thousand years.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) reference materials

(1) Ruan Changrui (Citizen 80), Traditional Rites and Music in Taipei-Festival on the occasion of the New Year, Taipei Literature Committee.

(2) Liu Huanyue (Min 79), encyclopedia of Taiwan Province Province (I), Taiyuan Publishing House.

(3) Zheng (min. 79), etiquette and folklore code of Taiwan Province province. Independent evening news

List of learning activities of intransitive verbs

List of local teaching activities in festivals

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