What is the relationship between the folklore "Yuan Day" and what is now known as the Spring Festival?

? Yuan Day refers to an auspicious day. The Book of Shun: "On the first day of the month, the first day of the month, Shun was in the presence of Wenzu." Kong Chuan: "Yuezheng, the first month; Yuanzhi, the upper day." Yuan Day is also what we usually call the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, which is also the traditional Chinese festival of Spring Festival.

? ? In the "Jingchu chronicle" there is such a record "the first day of the first month is the day of the three yuan also ...... The first day of the first month is also the day of the three yuan. Into the pepper cypress wine, drink peach soup. Then, they would drink tusu wine and molasses, and then they would drink the five kinds of wine on the plate. ...... Where the drinking order, from a small". On the day of the Yuanzhi Festival, people have to get up early, and at home, men, women, and children have to dress up and worship in the order of the eldest and youngest. Then we all drink pepper cypress wine, tusu wine, peach soup, eat gum teeth molasses, five Xin dishes.

Pepper and cypress wine, tusu wine, peach soup, eat gum teeth molasses, five pungent vegetables? Pepper and cypress wine refers to pepper wine and cypress wine. Pepper wine is wine made from pepper, which means to wish for longevity and to pay respect. And cypress wine is cypress leaf wine, which is mainly used to ward off evil spirits.

? Tusu Wine is also known as "Yearning Wine". According to legend, Tusu was a kind of house in ancient times, and because wine was often made in this kind of house, the wine made was called Tusu wine. It is said that Tu Su wine was developed by Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the Han Dynasty, and its formula is rhubarb, atractylodes, cinnamon sticks, windproof, peppercorns, aconite, epiphyllum, and other traditional Chinese medicines into the wine immersion, with the benefit of qi and warming the yang, dispelling the wind and dispersing the cold, and avoiding the effect of the disease of the evil spirits.

Peach soup is a kind of liquid juice boiled with peach wood. In ancient times, peach wood, also known as "dragon wood", "ghosts and horrors of wood", in China's folk culture and beliefs have an extremely important position. For thousands of years, mahogany has been the representative for suppressing disasters and avoiding evil spirits. Gum Teeth Candy, also known as "Gum Teeth Molasses", is a kind of sticky candy, and folklore says that eating this kind of candy can keep your teeth from falling out. It is hoped that this sticky candy will protect the teeth and thus promote good health.

There are many traditional folklore in China that have been changed or improved and have disappeared into the long history. Just like the New Year's Day, although we celebrate the New Year every year, very few people know what the New Year's Day is, not to mention that in ancient times, people celebrated the New Year by drinking pepper and cypress wine, tusu wine, peach soup, and eating gummy tooth molasses and five-octane dishes.

? Folk culture is a tradition, but also a spiritual symbol, which represents the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancestors, we should not forget, let alone abandon. We should combine with modern culture, reshape its spirit, build its sinews, and let our folk culture glow with a new spring.