How did China celebrate the New Year in ancient times?

Commonly known as "Chinese New Year". People think that the Spring Festival is the most grand festival of all festivals. As soon as we entered the twelfth lunar month, we began to prepare: making rice cakes, sewing new clothes, handling new year's goods, removing dust, sweeping the floor and dredging ditches.

On the morning of the first day of the first month, every household sets off firecrackers and opens the door at auspicious times, which is called "opening the door". After the whole family gets up, they should take candy and cakes and play "early help". Vegetarian breakfast, generally eat rice cakes, glutinous rice balls, rice cakes, oil tofu and so on. Symbolizing "reunion" After breakfast, first go to the ancestral hall in the hall to bow down to the ancestors, and each family is led by the elders to pay a New Year call to each family in the village. In the morning, under the leadership of the elders, the whole village beats gongs and drums and goes to the ancestral temple or temple to worship Buddha, which is called "walking"; Pick evergreen branches and stick them in the door, which is called "taking money". On this day, avoid sweeping the floor and splashing water. The purpose is to avoid the outflow of wealth. At the same time avoid saying unlucky things.

From the second day of junior high school, relatives and friends exchange greetings and pay New Year greetings. Usually pay homage to the Yue family first, and then pay homage to other relatives and friends. As the saying goes, "the first day is a baby, the second day is Jiro, and the third day is the fourth day."

From the third day to the fifteenth day, most rural areas will dance dragon lanterns, lions or perform flower drum operas. There are colorful flag lights in front of the dragon lantern, big gongs and drums clear the way, and then gangs and bands. Villages welcome guests with firecrackers, and some treat them to wine, commonly known as "inviting seats". At this time, the dragon lantern and the lion will perform as rewards. What year? Year is the image of drooping ears of grain and a symbol of bumper harvest. The so-called "bumper harvest year".

What year? Nian is a monster. It stays in the deep sea all year round and only climbs ashore on New Year's Eve. Tay

When you go ashore, wherever you go, there will be floods. Later, people put red paper on their doorsteps and gathered in the yard to burn firewood.

Fire, cutting vegetables and meat with a kitchen knife, making a thunderous sound. Scared nian back and fled back to the sea. So there is an exception.

Put up couplets at night, hang lanterns, wear new clothes, chop jiaozi and wrap jiaozi, and burn firewood at night-

This is this year.

So how did the ancients celebrate the New Year? Let's listen to this "festival song" first—

23 days of furnace sacrifice,

Twenty-four couplets,

25 make tofu,

Twenty-six years of cutting meat,

…………

The second day kowtows,

Play ball in grade three and grade four,

Jumping monkeys on the fifth and sixth days,

…………

"New Year, busy for half a year." The ancients were busy with "Nian" from the twelfth lunar month until Yuan Xiao passed. This year,

It's over. Then we can trace back to the "year step" of the ancients, and come to worship the stove first-

Kitchen God is the most exposed of all the gods worshipped on New Year's Day.

The custom of offering sacrifices to stoves has a long history, which is the gratitude of ancestors to fire and stoves.

A sign of respect. In legend, the Yellow Emperor, Yan Di and Zhu Rong.

They are all kitchen gods. The popular kitchen god's surname is Guo and Long.

Act like a beautiful woman. He has a wife named "Qing Ji" and six children.

A daughter named "Chen Wenjing" and some soldiers. Except him.

In addition to being responsible for fire fighting, we should also examine what the world has done and resort to the court.

Tiandi people also use distiller's grains, maltose, sticky cakes and other "bribes" stoves.

At the same time, God murmured prayers and begged him to speak well in heaven. This wind

The custom has been passed down to this day, but the time is the 24th of the twelfth lunar month.

Sacrificial food has also been simplified to "stove candy stove cake", but if you pay attention.

If you do, you will definitely hear grandma and mom say to the kitchen god: go!

Speak well, not ill. ...

Besides firecrackers, the spring breeze also brings warmth to Tu Su.

Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones.

-Wang Anshi

Firecrackers were originally a tool of witchcraft, used to drive away monsters. The original firecrackers are not like now.

Firecrackers are real bamboo, that is, they burn bamboo, making a crackling sound and scaring ghosts. Tu Su is a Tu Su wine, which means.

Kill something congenial and awaken people's souls. It is said that drinking this wine in the morning of January can keep you from getting sick for a year, and then drink it during the Chinese New Year.

These wines are collectively called "Tu Su wines".

Fu Tao, also known as "pottery board", is the predecessor of Spring Festival couplets. The ancients thought that mahogany was the essence of five trees and could make hundreds of ghosts, so it was from

Since the Han dynasty, peach has been used as a tool to win, and peach wood has been used as a peach man, peach seal, peach board and peach symbol to ward off evil spirits. Fu Tao

It is said that the emergence of Spring Festival couplets is due to Meng Chang, the master of Shu after the Five Dynasties. Paper Spring Festival couplets were only popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties. today's

Spring Festival couplets are to highlight the atmosphere of the New Year and wish good luck. They have lost the driving role of the old Spring Festival couplets and are rich in content.

Rich and diverse.

I wrote couplets, and then it's time to prepare Chinese New Year's dishes for the Chinese New Year holiday.

There are many kinds of food, such as rice cakes, New Year's Eve dinners and jiaozi. in addition

There are also diets with strong witchcraft flavor, such as peach soup, cypress wine, pepper wine, and five.

Pan Xintao soup is a soup made of peaches, and white wine is a kind of cypress leaves.

Made of wine, pepper wine is made of pepper seeds, and the ancients were on the first day of the first month.

Drinking means exorcising evil spirits and praying. Five coriander is five spices, such as onion and ginger.

Spicy food is put on a plate, also called spring plate. It is said that evil can be eliminated and plague can be eliminated.

Passing through the five internal organs also means wishing the new.

The cold light in the hotel stayed alone and didn't sleep, and the guest turned sad.

My hometown is thinking thousands of miles tonight, and it is another year of the Ming Dynasty.

New Year's Eve is a night of reunion, and China people can't untie a knot of reunion. Even if people are far away, it will be on New Year's Eve.

Go home for New Year's Eve. The home on New Year's Eve is a particularly warm and sweet space, which is very important in history.

Even the prisoners in the prison were released and reunited at home. The whole family sat around the table and started the "reunion dinner" and "Shounian"

Process. The first is the "reunion dinner", and then the whole family will sit together and watch the New Year.

At this time, the younger generation saluted their parents and resigned.

Old people must share the lucky money. Lucky money is also called "old thing"

Money, lucky money and lucky money were originally used to

Many people are tired of exorcising evil spirits and helping their children celebrate the New Year.

Show affection and love.

After the reunion dinner, we will also eat "midnight snack", which will be eaten by the whole family.

Snacks, or laughing, or raining, waiting for a good day.

Ming, this is Shousui. In addition, there is a mirror to listen to on New Year's Eve.

According to the custom of raising silkworms, selling dementia and making ash piles, this is how it came about.

One year divination is good or bad, and the new year is a blessing for children.

Smart, everything is as you wish.

"In the rural New Year, from the twelfth lunar month to the first half of the first month, the sound of gongs and drums for a whole month and a half is monotonous.

But it touched the hearts of every one of us in China. Just then, ... I found that the winter jasmine was in bloom. "

Yes, the winter jasmine is in bloom, and the new year has come!

The ancients compared the first eight days of the new rectification with six kinds of animals, people and valleys respectively. The first day of the first month is the Year of the Rooster, which is an auspicious day.

The ancients used chickens to ward off evil spirits by killing chickens or sticking them on doors. People have been busy since New Year's Day.

Happy new year. In the Han Dynasty, it was popular to pay New Year greetings. On the first day of the first month, the ministers went to the palace to worship, and the monarch and the minister enjoyed each other. reach

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the official New Year greeting developed into an empty etiquette, which was often "sighing at the door", whether you know it or not.

There are poems as evidence:

I don't want to meet, but I want to talk about it. The famous papers are all us.

I also throw some paper at people. The world is too simple and empty.

In folk beliefs, the first day to the fourth day is the carnival day of the New Year, and it is not until the fifth day that normal life is resumed.

Live. The fifth day is also called "breaking the fifth day", and the custom activity on this day is "sending the poor". For merchants, the fifth day is a business day.

Family opening. The first month's activities did not gradually calm down until 15. ...