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Lunar New Year Customs of Lunar New Year

Lunar New Year Customs

Lunar New Year 28 is the common name for the twenty-eighth day of the twelfth month of the Chinese lunar calendar (Lunar New Year), and is one of the traditional customs of the Chinese New Year. Lunar month 28 of the Han Chinese folk song "Lunar month 28, the surface hair", "Lunar month 28, cake steamed buns paste flowers". Han Chinese folk customs and traditions to the lunar calendar on the twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year whether it is the hair of the noodles or buns, each family to start preparing the staple food for the New Year.

The twenty-eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the cake steamed buns paste flowers.

The proverb says: ? This day there are mainly the following activities.

The rice cake: rice cake is sticky rice flour or corn flour plus dates or beans steamed food. The cake made for the Spring Festival is called? The cake is made for the Chinese New Year and is called "nian gao" (rice cake). Because? Gao? and? Gao? and eating rice cake on New Year's Day has the connotation of "high". It is a good wish for the New Year to be high. The good wishes of the New Year.

Steamed buns in Shandong mainly refers to steamed meat and potatoes, the most famous in Jiaodong region, forming a unique pastry culture. The skillful women and handsome women competed to offer their skills to make the pasta into a variety of artistic images, which became more beautiful than the skillful activities. Like many skillful women, they make various kinds of pasta sculptures on the pastries, such as flowers, dragons and phoenixes, birds and butterflies, etc. After the pastries are cooked, they are made with various kinds of colors. After the pot, and then dyed with a variety of pigments colorful, especially festive. Some also do the face of the pig's head, the face of the fish God worm into the granary offerings. There are also made into date biscuits with dates, used to worship ancestors. These are used to worship the noodle food, not only the selection of fine materials, beautiful modeling to express piety and respect, that is, the pursuit of artistic enjoyment of the psychological response, but also to meet the New Year's a kind of celebratory psychological portraits.

There are a lot of things to do when the meat and potatoes, that is, this day can not be randomly strung, especially when the meat and potatoes on the pot of steam, if it is strung accidentally bumped into the door to hasten to the people's stove pond to add some firewood (wealth), in order to make the pot of meat and potatoes in the hair of the better. Uncover the pot if the meat and potatoes steamed cracked must say? This year must be hair, meat and potatoes are smiling?

The so-called sticker flower is posted on the New Year's Eve paintings, couplets, window and a variety of God code. On this day, people have to clean the new doors and windows, kangtou, porch columns, and even daily necessities on the stickers on the couplets, window flowers, as well as? The day when people put up couplets, window decorations, and "Looking Up to See Joy? and "Fukko" (good luck). Blessings. and other auspicious words and a variety of New Year's paintings, hang up red lanterns, but also to paste the heaven and earth, land, God of Fortune, God of the door and other rituals of the God code, the home and outside the house dress up red-hot, lively, full of joy and spring everywhere.

Why do we need to post the Chinese character "福字" in Chinese New Year? What is the meaning of Fu? First of all, the word "Fu" is a synonym, the ancient meaning is that a person has his field, not worry about food and clothing. In other words, first of all, the material needs of life is solved to be considered a blessing. Secondly, the folklore of '? five blessings? For: one said life, two said rich, three said peace, four said you good virtue, five said the end of life (old and good end is called the test). The said text? Show Department" said:? Fu, blessing. This means that the word "Fu" has the meaning of blessing.

In order to get?


Fu to? The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it. to make a good luck. There are two legends in China, one is Zhu Yuanzhang used inverted FuZi as a secret mark, ready to kill which behind the back of the emperor of the people, after knowing the Queen Ma let all the people of the city to paste an inverted FuZi, Zhu Yuanzhang can not, had to cancel the order to kill. In order to honor Empress Ma, every Spring Festival, people will post the word of blessing upside down for an auspicious New Year. Secondly, it is said that on the eve of Spring Festival one year, the big housekeeper of Prince Gong's House in the Qing Dynasty dug his heels in to please his master, and in Prince Gong's favorite consort? Fujin? s name. So he hired someone to write a lot of lucky characters and told his servants to stick them in some places in the royal palace where the king and Fujin were most likely to see them on weekdays. However, one of the servants was careless and in the midst of his busy schedule, he posted the lucky words upside down. The king and Fujin were furious and wanted to punish the careless servant, but the housekeeper was afraid of being implicated, so he quickly kneeled down and said: "I have often heard people say, "I am a servant of the king, but I am a servant of the king. Minion often heard people say, Prince Gong high life and great fortune, now the great fortune really to (down), this is an auspicious omen? Prince and Fujin immediately turned anger into joy. Later, people have followed suit, the Spring Festival upside down posting large and small Fukuji, to pray for a new year of good luck

Some families during the Spring Festival in order to add to the festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival, but also in the windows on the colorful window decals. The art of paper-cutting in China is said to have originated from the Tang Dynasty's custom of paper-cutting to invoke the soul, and if someone suffers from shock and sickness on the road, paper-cutting can be used to recall their lost souls. Du Fu "Peng Nga line" wrote:? Warm soup washes my feet, paper-cutting invites my soul? which describes the custom of paper-cutting to invoke the soul. Nowadays, however, the window decoration is mainly for the festive atmosphere. Window flowers with its exaggerated techniques, unique shapes, bright colors, through the people's favorite image, the heart of the best wishes to express the most colorful, festive decoration of colorful, joyful.

The custom of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival originated in ancient times? Peach symbols? The "Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Customs" and other ancient books have records related to it. It is said that the East China Sea in the middle of a beautiful scenery Dushuo Mountain, the mountain has a huge incomparable peach tree, coiled circle has more than 3,000 miles, the northeast branch of this peach tree is called the Northeast Ghost Gate, is the place where all the ghosts in and out of the Peach Tree lived on the two immortal brothers, one called Shentian, one called Yubai, the two immortals is the commander of the ten thousand ghosts, if harmful to the human ghosts, with a rope of straw tied up and fed to the tigers.

The emperor based on this story created a large exorcism ritual, in front of the door to establish the peach people, and the gods, Yu base hand holding the image of the reed rope and the image of the tiger painted on the door to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. At the same time, people believe that peach wood is the essence of five wood, can system of ghosts. To the Han Dynasty, has been the door god ? Shentan? and the god of the door, the god of the door, the god of the door, the god of the door. Yubi? Personified, so there is in the image of the peach tree carved in the image of God, Yu Shi. Or simply carve the peach wood into a human figure hanging on the door to ward off evil spirits, which is the prototype of the door god is also the prototype of the Spring Festival couplets. In the Tang Dynasty, it was also very popular to hang peach symbols on the door during the Spring Festival to drive away ghosts and evil spirits.

Peach symbols into spring couplets is said to have originated in the Five Dynasties after the Lord of Shu Meng Chang, Meng Chang because the ministers of the New Year inscription is not work, the pen of his own title cloud? The new year is a great opportunity to celebrate, and the festival is a great opportunity to celebrate. It became the first recorded Spring Festival couplet in Chinese history. Meng Chang's inscription changed the content and nature of the legendary peach talisman, transforming it from a mahogany sign that drove away ghosts into a special style of writing that expresses certain ideas. Couplets, this is China's first pair of couplets inscribed on the peach runes, (at this time is not called the Spring Festival couplets), but from then on, New Year's Eve in the portal to hang inscribed couplings of the peach runes are prevalent.

Wang Anshi "New Year's Day" poem wrote? The first year of the year, the spring breeze sends warmth into the tassel. It can be seen in the Song Dynasty, hanging the inscription of the couplet of peach has been very popular.

The official name of the Spring Festival couplets and changed to red paper writing began in the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, according to historical records, the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang love couplets, one year New Year's Eve, Zhu Yuanzhang, ordered that regardless of the Secretary of the family or the ordinary people, the door must be posted on a red paper writing Spring Festival couplets, known as ? Wannian red? Because? red? and? Zhu? agrees, meaning that the descendants of the Zhu surname will rule the world forever. On the first day of the first month, Emperor Ming Taizu went out on a tour, and felt very happy to see the streets and alleys of Jinling in red, and the interplay of spring scrolls was dazzling. However, when he came to a house, he saw that there were no spring scrolls on the door, so he sent someone to find out what was going on. It turned out that the owner is a butcher who kills pigs, he is illiterate, and others are not willing to write spring scrolls for him. So Zhu Yuanzhang immediately waved his brush and wrote ? Hands split the road of life and death, a knife cut off the root of right and wrong? The couplet was given to the family. It is the Ming Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang's strong advocacy, written on red paper spring couplets began to flourish.

By the Qing Dynasty, the ideology and artistry of the Spring Festival couplets were greatly improved, so there were many popular famous couplets in the Qing Dynasty. The content of the Spring Festival couplets, with the development of the times and constantly enriched and perfected, the meaning of the Spring Festival couplets also gradually by driving away ghosts and evil spirits into the Spring Festival festivities and entertainment as a carrier. Although the Spring Festival couplets have been produced for many years, through the changes of generations. But until today, the Spring Festival couplets still with its elegant flavor, festive mood and rich text wisdom characteristics, as the symbol of the New Year's festivities to express and render the text has become an indispensable part of the New Year's festivals and customs. Spring Festival couplets condense the spirit of the Chinese nation, show the national pursuit, highlighting the value of the nation, will carry and glowing five thousand years of Chinese civilization, the integration of the present good wishes for the future and long survive on earth, and will always emit a tantalizing fragrance.

As early as in the pre-Qin Dynasty, the god of the door has been produced, the Han Dynasty for the Shentian, Yubi. To the Tang Dynasty, because Qin Shubao and Yuchi Jingde once guarded the palace for Emperor Tang Taizong, Emperor Tang Taizong felt that the two hard work, painted two portraits hanging on the door, appeared to Qin Qiong Jingde as the custom of the door god. As the legend of Zhong Kui was perfected, Zhong Kui, who could fight ghosts, was later adopted as the door god. The beautiful spring scrolls and various door gods not only hold people's prayers for good fortune and the belief of driving away evil, but are also a kind of artistic appreciation and enjoyment. By a large number of historical stories and folklore and the evolution of the New Year's paintings and window decorations, that is, the rendering of the festive atmosphere, but also the festive period after dinner parents to explain the meaning of the picture of the children and grandchildren of the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation and the spirit of the subject matter of education.

Starting from this day, housewives also began to offer incense to the gods before each meal to express their respect for the gods and prayers for the coming year.

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