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Comparison between China's Spring Festival Customs and Japanese New Year's Day Customs

Main idea

China and Japan have maintained close ties and exchanges in cultural customs since ancient times. But with the change of time, the holiday customs of the two countries have also changed, so there are many similarities and differences. Among them, the contrast between China's Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day clearly shows the characteristics of cultural absorption and integration, integration and development of the two countries.

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Long ago, China and Japan had a deep relationship in customs. There are many similarities and differences in customs between China's Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day. Why is this happening? By comparing the origins, customs, languages, characters and traditional cultures of China Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day, we clearly understand the unique characteristics of cultural absorption, integration, integration and development of the two countries.

1, the origin of the new year

As early as the Xia Dynasty, there was the concept of "year". At that time, agriculture was not continuous cropping, and crops were planted only once a year. Therefore, once a year, when it matures, everyone holds a series of celebrations to harvest the crops again, feel the grace of God, and look forward to the good weather in the coming year, avoid disasters and stay away from monsters. This is the origin of the Spring Festival. Japanese New Year's Day is equivalent to China's Spring Festival. This new year's form has been widely circulated in China since ancient times. The significance of this festival is the same as that of the Spring Festival in China, which means to pray for good luck and good luck in the coming year.

2. 1 Similarity between China Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day customs.

2. 1. 1 The Spring Festival in China is the same as the Japanese New Year's Day. This is a happy festival, and everywhere is full of festive atmosphere. For example, cleaning and decorating houses; Some places are decorated with lanterns and silk, and cities and rural areas are beautifully dressed. The business circle is not only gorgeous, but also colorful and beautiful; Organs, schools, hospitals, enterprises and streets are covered with national flags and colorful flags, and most gates are decorated with flowers and straws. In a word, there is a festive atmosphere everywhere.

2. 1.2 Spring Festival in China and New Year's Day in Japan are national holidays. The Spring Festival holiday in China is usually from/kloc-0 to 7 days, and ***7 days. The rest day in Japan is from February 29th to 10 to 10/3, every year, ***5 days.

2. 1.3 Both the Spring Festival in China and the Japanese New Year's Day have New Year's Eve. People stay up all night to welcome the New Year, have a family reunion dinner and receive gifts. For example, during festivals, the whole family gets together, and on New Year's Eve, the family has a reunion dinner and drinks wine. Relatives bid farewell to each other in the New Year and deepen friendship and affection; The younger generation pays tribute to the elder, and the elder gives gifts to the younger generation.

2.2 The custom of Spring Festival in China is different from that of Japanese New Year's Day.

2.2. 1 Entertainment and food for China Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day In China, when the New Year comes, the doors of every household are open. First of all, people set off firecrackers to welcome the New Year in the sound of firecrackers. Japan doesn't set off firecrackers on New Year's Day, and every family spends the New Year quietly. During the Spring Festival in China, the whole family usually eats jiaozi on New Year's Eve and puts some small change in it. Eating it means luck. On New Year's Day and New Year's Eve in Japan, the whole family sits around and eats longevity noodles to celebrate longevity and the New Year.

2.2.2 Spring Festival in China and New Year's Day in Japan The Spring Festival in China is the first day of the first month of the old calendar, and New Year's Day in Japan is the first day of the first month of the western calendar.

2.2.3 House decoration during China Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day. China posted red Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival to express his wishes for the coming year; Posting new year pictures means resigning the old and welcoming the new; Sticking the word "fu" means that "fu" has arrived, which reflects everyone's good wishes for a happy life in the coming year. On New Year's Day in Japan, we hang straw ropes and loosen doors on the windows to celebrate. During the Chinese New Year, the Japanese usually hang a straw rope on the door, loosen the door in front of the door, and then hang oranges, oranges, kelp and lobsters on the ring of the rope. The decorations of door pine are common bamboo leaves, pine branches, oranges, straw ropes, lobsters and so on. I hope that the coming year will be happy and the family will live a long life. I pray to live to 100 and stay away from monsters.

2.2.4 Habitually observe the Spring Festival in China and the New Year's Day in Japan. During the Spring Festival in China, the whole family stayed up all night, laughing and enjoying the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. On New Year's Day in Japan, I wish my family to sit around the fire to welcome the New Year, and wait quietly for the bell in the temple to ring 108. Japanese men and women will hold red and white song parties in groups to spend the night together.

2.2.5 From the above customs differences between the Spring Festival in China and the New Year's Day in Japan, we can see that the Spring Festival in China and the New Year's Day in Japan have their own characteristics in festival customs and culture, and they all have the characteristics of integrated development.

3. From the perspective of language contrast.

3. 1 Use of written language

3.1.1* * On the use of * * in written language, China's Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day are * * * in the same language, Happy New Year, Happy New Year, Best wishes for the future, making a fortune, all the best, five blessings, Happy New Year, bumper harvest of crops, abundant financial resources and prosperous fortune, forever. Sure enough, I realized the year I once imagined.

3. 1.2 No greetings with bad origins, such as birth, old age, illness, death, disability, fragmentation, termination and loss. Cannot be used. For example, words like "bad luck" and "broken" should not be used in the Spring Festival in China, and sentences like "lost, separated and gone" should be avoided in Japanese New Year's Day.

3. 1.3 Through the use of written language, we know that during the Spring Festival in China and the New Year's Day in Japan, everyone likes to use sentences with good etymology and avoid using sentences with bad etymology.

3.2 Digital comparison

3.2. 1 Comparison of figures 4 The differences between the customs of China Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day can be shown even by using figures. In China, the pronunciation of "4" and "thing" is similar, and "44" is associated with many things, showing the meaning of thinking about many things. But in Japanese, the pronunciation of 4 is the same as death, the pronunciation of 14 is the same as "heavy death", and the pronunciation of 42 is the same as "death". Therefore, the Japanese will think of 4 or homophones containing 4, and they will feel that the source is not good. Therefore, avoid using 4.

3.2.2 Comparison of the number 9 In China, the pronunciation of 9 and 9 is similar, which is used to pray for happiness and long-term good luck. So during the Spring Festival, 2 likes to use sentences with 9. However, in Japanese, the pronunciation of 9 is the same as "bitter しみ", and the Japanese think that the combination of numbers 4989 and 3396 is a taboo combination. So there are basically no sentences containing 4 and 9 during the festival.

Therefore, by comparing the taboo of numbers 4 and 9 between China Spring Festival and Japan New Year's Day, we can see that China and Japan have their own characteristics in the development of digital language in holiday customs.

4. Comparison of traditional culture.

4. 1 China's traditional culture is the center of East Asian culture. Why are there so many similarities between China's Spring Festival and Japanese New Year's Day? The book Modern Japanese Culture by Mr. Tang Chongnan mentioned the main features of Chinese and Japanese traditional culture. China is the birthplace of East Asian culture, and China is the center of East Asian culture. The ancient culture in China has a history of 5,000 years, which has a great influence on the surrounding areas and ethnic cultures.

4.2 Japan absorbs China's traditional culture. Japan is located on an island separated from the mainland in the western Pacific Ocean. After the establishment of ancient culture, it absorbed a large number of advanced traditional cultures in ancient China, imitated and introduced China traditional culture, and the national traditional culture at that time was widely trusted. Therefore, in order to gain these ideas, Japan held activities around the first month of the old month, and most of China's traditional culture was introduced to Japan.

4.3 Japan is the transformation of China's traditional culture. Any cultural integration has the following phenomena: not changing one's own culture, absorbing a small amount of other cultures, and the subjectivity of the receiver is gradually accepted through the choice and deformation of various conditions. Therefore, for Japanese traditional culture, the Japanese are actively absorbing colleagues from China's traditional culture, changing and innovating China's traditional culture, and giving birth to a new cultural daughter from the mother of China's traditional culture. This type of new culture daughter has revived. In a word, although the traditional cultures of China and Japan are of the same origin, the fruits are quite different.

4.4 China's Spring Festival and Japan's New Year's Day are the most expressive traditional Chinese and Japanese cultures. From the above, we can see that the development process of Spring Festival in China and New Year's Day in Japan has the characteristics of absorption, integration, integration and development.

abstract

In short, from the comparison of the origin, customs, language, characters and traditional culture between the Spring Festival in China and the New Year's Day in Japan, the reason why there are so many similarities and differences in customs between the Spring Festival in China and the New Year's Day in Japan is that the Chinese and Japanese people have always maintained friendly exchanges and contacts, and they have the characteristics of absorption, integration and development in holiday customs and culture. Therefore, for language learners like us, by comparing the Spring Festival in China with New Year's Day in Japan, we can better understand the traditional culture of China and Japan, which is of great benefit to Japanese learning. Therefore, in the traditional culture of China and Japan, we have carried forward the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, actively innovated in content and form according to the advantages of Japanese national culture, and approached the mutual exchange and integration of Chinese and Japanese traditional cultures.