Do you know the three customs of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival is China's most distinctive traditional festival, emerging from the time of Yu and Shun. But do you know what are the customs of Spring Festival? If you don't know, come with me to find out~

Customs of Spring Festival

①Spring Festival couplets and New Year's paintings

Spring Festival couplets and New Year's paintings originated from the custom of driving away ghosts in the ancient times. During the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties, every time the Spring Festival came around, every household would set up a peach man in front of the door and paint the Goddess of Mercy and Yu Shi to drive away ghosts. Later on, they developed into door god New Year paintings. In the Song Dynasty, woodblock prints became popular and the content of the paintings was expanded, and the Four Beauties, which are still preserved today, were the yearly paintings of that time.

Spring couplets appeared in the Tang Dynasty. Writing spring scrolls became more popular in the Song Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, spring scrolls were popularized throughout the country. Spring Couplets are a unique language art form and calligraphy art form in China, and have spread to Korea and other places. Spring Festival couplets not only express people's wishes, but also add to the festive atmosphere.

②Build a fire

When the New Year comes, lighting torches, fires, or charcoal fire pans in the yard is known as "Tingliao" in ancient times. In ancient times, it was called "Tingliao", "burning fire pot", "wangxiang", and in modern times, it is called "wanghuo" or "pointing hair treasure firewood". In ancient times, Tingliao was used to drive away evil spirits or to offer sacrifices to gods and ancestors. Later, the fire was developed to symbolize the prosperity of the whole family and to express good hope.

In 1738, Lang Shining painted a picture entitled Hongli's Snowy Scene and Joy, which shows the Qianlong Emperor celebrating the New Year with his children. In front of the Qianlong Emperor is a fire pit, a small son of the Emperor is putting pine and cypress twigs into the fire pit, which was called "burnt pine pot" at that time.

Modern folk often light a fire is often a pile of firewood or charcoal, the fire the more prosperous the better, symbolizing the New Year family prosperity. There are also fire pots burning pine, cypress, peach and apricot branches, the family across the fire, symbolizing the prairie away from the old disaster, ushering in the new weather.

③ firecrackers

The original purpose of firecrackers is to expel the ghosts and monsters, or to welcome the gods. Later, it was developed as a symbol of the old and the new, and became the folkloric symbol that best represents the moment of the arrival of the New Year.

The earliest reliable record of firecrackers can be found in the Southern Liang Dynasty's "Jing Chu Yearly Records": "The first day of the first month of the year is also the day of the three elements, which is called the end of the month. The rooster crows and rises, first in front of the court to burst firecrackers to avoid the evil spirits of the mountain shame." At that time, firecrackers were made by burning bamboo in a fire to produce a cracking sound. The first thing you did when you woke up in the New Year was to burst firecrackers.

The Song Dynasty saw the emergence of gunpowder firecrackers, that is, the modern firecrackers, cannonballs, firecrackers. With gunpowder firecrackers, there is no bamboo in the region can also set off firecrackers. Firecrackers then became a national custom.

Later, the festive colors of the firecrackers themselves made people have a further understanding of the symbolism of the firecrackers: the use of festive firecrackers to welcome the gods. The explosion of the firecracker itself is also a cultural symbol of "saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new". It can make people more y experience the difference between the old and the new, and make life more rich in artistic beauty.

Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year is the first year of the lunar calendar and an ancient traditional festival in China. In ancient times, the "New Year" was not celebrated on the 29th or 30th day of the waxing moon, but on the "Waxing Day", which was later called "Laha". After the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the "wax festival" was moved to the end of the year. To the Republic of China, the change to the solar calendar, the lunar year called the "Spring Festival", because the Spring Festival is generally in the "spring" before and after.

The Spring Festival is China's grandest and most lively of an ancient traditional festival. It is commonly known as "New Year's Eve". Spring Festival, as the name suggests, is the spring festival. With the arrival of spring, agricultural products are renewed, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season is about to begin. People have enough . . reason to sing and dance to welcome this festival.

The above is my understanding of a few about the Spring Festival customs and the origin of the Spring Festival brief introduction, partners you still know what customs? Welcome to add, let's see you in the comments section~