What folk activities are there on New Year's Day in Beijing?

On New Year's Day in Beijing, folk activities include yangko, walking on stilts, and duet in Northeast China, which will be staged at temple fairs one after another. ?

Northern New Year's Day custom: The winter weather in northern China is cold, and the days are short and the nights are long. Since New Year's Day, people who are idle in farming have been killing pigs and sheep, sitting cross-legged on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, talking about their homes and mouths, and not working until the 15th day of the first month. Due to the cold weather, the Northeast New Year's Day diet is mainly frozen products, pickles and stews. Frozen jiaozi, stewed vermicelli with sauerkraut, preserved sherbet, etc. are all essential foods for Chinese New Year.

Children in Beijing want to eat candied haws in the New Year, which symbolizes the prosperity of the New Year. Folklore: Yangko, stilt walking and Errenzhuan in the northeast will be performed at the temple fair one after another. Tianjin is full of paper-cuts, couplets and entertainment activities. On New Year's Day, students in Shandong Province burn incense and worship the statue of Confucius, hoping to be the first in the coming year.

65438+1 October1Why is it called New Year's Day?

Because "Yuan" means beginning, and "Dan" means that the sun has just crossed the Taiping line. New Year's Day is also called "New Calendar Year" and "Gregorian Year". At the same time, it is also called "three yuan", that is, year yuan, month yuan and time yuan.

The date of China New Year is different in different dynasties. Xia Dynasty is January 1st, Shang Dynasty is December 1st, Zhou Dynasty is November 1st and Qin Dynasty is October 1st.

In the early years of the Western Han Dynasty (BC 104), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty accepted the suggestions of Sima Qian and others, used the taichu calendar to restore the summer calendar, that is, the lunar calendar, and put the 24 solar terms into the calendar with the first month as a year. Although the later calendars were revised from generation to generation, they were still based on taichu calendar, with the first month of Meng Chun in the summer calendar as the beginning of the year, and the first day of the first month was New Year's Day and January Day, that is, the first day of the New Year.