In ancient times, what were the elegant customs of the Spring Festival?

On New Year's Eve, every family will get together for a New Year's Eve dinner, which is also the last meal of the Lunar New Year. Generally speaking, in addition to a rich family dinner, there must be fish on the table, which means "more than one year". Family members get together to share the joy of the past year and look forward to the development of the next year. After New Year's Eve, the whole family stayed up late to bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year. In modern society, there are more and more festivals of various names, and many people will say that "the New Year is tasteless". Maybe we don't need to improve food and wear new clothes every year. Maybe we have more forms of entertainment. However, the Spring Festival is still our most important traditional festival.

Spring Festival couplets are the most elegant thing for China people during the Spring Festival. Spring Festival couplets are the essence of China traditional culture. Since the Song Dynasty, writing Spring Festival couplets, writing Spring Festival couplets and posting Spring Festival couplets have been important fashions for China people to celebrate the Spring Festival. It is essential to post Spring Festival couplets for the poor from the palace. It was Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding father of the Ming Dynasty, who really made Spring Festival couplets popular and evolved into a must-have program for every household in the country.

The story of Zhu Yuanzhang's promotion of Spring Festival couplets is very popular. It was a New Year's Eve. Zhu Yuanzhang ordered relatives and ministers to post couplets in front of the door, and the emperor issued an imperial edict. Who dares to neglect it? Since then, the Spring Festival couplets posted by palace ministers have spread to Pengmen, saying that "every family always has new peaches for old ones". The ancients believed that green was the symbol of all life. And red is a symbol of prosperity, and the corresponding direction is the sunrise in the east. Therefore, during the Spring Festival in the Han Dynasty, not only emperors and officials put on Tsing Yi, but also held a grand Spring Festival at the East Gate of the Imperial City.

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