2022 New Year handbook simple and beautiful

The Spring Festival is the grandest traditional festival of Chinese folklore, which is a folk festival integrating prayers for blessings and calamities, celebrations and entertainment, and food. The Spring Festival has a long history, evolved from the ancient times of the first year of prayer and sacrifice, in the inheritance of the development of carrying a rich historical and cultural heritage. The activities of the Spring Festival are centered on praying for the New Year, and are carried out in the form of getting rid of the old and bringing in the new, worshipping the gods and ancestors, driving away evils and calamities, and praying for a good year, etc. The contents are colorful, lively and festive, with a strong New Year's flavor, and are a combination of the traditional and cultural essences of the Chinese civilization. During the Spring Festival, various activities are held throughout the country to celebrate the New Year, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs due to different regional cultures.

Customs of the Spring Festival?

Folding the busy year

Nian soldiers and bandits to refine the end of the 23rd or 24th, in folklore known as the "small year", is from the small year people will begin to "busy year". Xiao Nian does not exclusively refer to a day, due to local customs, known as "Xiao Nian" days are not the same. The main folkloric activities during the New Year include dust sweeping and stove worship. Prior to the Qing Dynasty, the traditional day of the New Year was the 24th day of the Lunar New Year. From the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the imperial family on the twenty-third day of the lunar month to hold a ceremony, in order to "save money", by the way, the zaowang master also worshiped, so the folk in the northern region to follow suit, more in the lunar month on the twenty-third of the lunar New Year. Most of the South, still maintains the old tradition of Lunar New Year on the 24th of the lunar month.

Folding dust sweeping

Busy year before the year is mainly to get rid of the old and new as the theme of the activities, dust sweeping is one of the customs of the year before getting rid of the old and new. The folk proverb says, "On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, dust and sweep the house". At the end of the year, on the twenty-third/twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, preparations for the New Year officially begin. Dusting is the year-end cleaning, known as "house sweeping" in the north and "house sweeping" in the south. Whenever the Spring Festival comes, every household has to clean up the environment, wash all kinds of utensils, dismantle and wash the bedding and curtains, sweep the six courtyards, dust and brush the cobwebs, dredge the nullahs and ditches. Everywhere overflowing with joy to engage in health, clean and welcome the new year's happy atmosphere.

According to folklore: because "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping in the New Year has "in addition to the meaning of Chen Bu Xin". Sweeping the dust is intended to be all "poor luck", "bad luck" all sweep out the door to pray for the next year, auspicious; this custom is entrusted to the people to ward off evils and disasters, the old and the new, and welcome the prayers and aspirations of the blessing of the auspicious.

Sacrifice Zaoshen

The lunar calendar December 23 or 24 festival stove, is the day after the night to brush the stove clean, the old Zaojun removed and burned, to the morning of New Year's Eve to put the new image, a send a welcome to be set up wine, meat, candy, sugar cane, rice and other fruits, burning incense, candles, paper cannons, and so on. This folklore activity can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, but at the very beginning the day of the festival was not on the day of the small year. Zheng Xuan said in his commentary on the Book of Rites, "(Zao Shen) resides on earth, and is the one who observes minor faults and makes condemnations." Legend has it that from the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year until New Year's Eve, these are the days when the god of the stove returns to the palace. On the day of New Year's Eve, the Zao Shen is invited to descend again, and the people will put up the statue of Zao Wangzhi before starting to prepare the New Year's Eve dinner. According to China's Jin Dynasty celebrities Zhou Dishuo Lanjing invited by the local customs and traditions of the record, "Terroir Records" records: "the night of the 24th day of the waxing moon, sacrificing the stove, that the God of the Zao the next day up to the sky, the white a year of things, so first one day of the sacrifice."

Local customs:Jiangsu Suzhou village sage Song Dynasty poet Fan Chengda has "Zaosi words" has been passed down, vividly depicting the Song Dynasty Suzhou home to send Zao's customs, the poem said: "Ancient rumors of La Bundle Le the 24th of the month, Zaojun towards the sky want to talk about the matter, the clouds of the car wind and horses less to stay in love with the family has a cup and plate of abundant classic sacrifice. Pig's head rotten cooked double fish fresh, bean paste sweet pine powder bait round. Men offer their daughters to avoid it, and sprinkle wine and burn money to make Zaojun happy. Don't be angry when your servant girl fights with you, and don't be angry when your dog or cat touches you. Sending you to the gate of heaven drunk and full, the spoon is long and the spoon is short, don't repeat the clouds, and beg for the profit to come back to share." According to the memories of the old Suzhou people, the most important thing to send the stove in addition to the "sugar yuanbao", there are other offerings, such as the stove god paper horse, stove curtains, stove ingots and so on.

Chinese New Year Poetry

[Song]

Wang Anshi

"New Year's Day"

A year of firecrackers, a year of warmth in the spring breeze.

Teeel of a thousand doors, always changing the new peach for the old one.

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[Song]

Su Shi

The Poem of Keeping the New Year's Eve

If I want to know the end of the dying year, I will be like a snake that goes to the gully, and the scales of my body are half gone, so who will be able to cover up my intention to go? I want to tie it to its tail, but I don't know what I can do even though I work hard! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. Don't be alarmed by the rooster in the morning, and don't be afraid to add to the drums at night. When I sit for a long time, the lamps will fall, and when I get up, I will see the Big Dipper slanting. I am afraid that next year will not be the same, and I am afraid of wasting my time. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to make it to the next year, but I'm afraid I'm going to waste my time.

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[Tang]

Cui Tu

"New Year's Eve" (除夜有怀)

迢递三巴路,羁危万里身.

The night of snow on the chaotic mountains, the spring of a lonely candle in a foreign land.

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[Tang]

Liu Changqing

New Year's Day

The heart of my hometown is cut out for the new year, and I weep alone by the side of the sky.

Old enough to live under others, but first to return in spring.

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[Song]

Qin Guan

Ruan Lang Gui - Xiangtian Wind and Rain Breaking the Cold

Xiangtian wind and rain breaking the cold early

Xiangtian wind and rain breaking the cold early. The deep courtyard is empty. The wind and rain broke at the beginning of the cold in the Xiangtian sky. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get back to you on this one.

The dream of the countryside is broken, and the soul is lonely. The first time I saw this is when I was a kid, and I was a kid, and I was a kid. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this.

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[Tang]

Meng Haoran

The New Year's Day of the Tianjia Family

Last night the bucket went back to the north, and today the year is rising to the east.

I am already strong in my years, but I am still worried about farming without pay.

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[Tang]

Meng Haoran

"The Meeting with Zhang Shaofu's Residence in Lecheng on the Night of the New Year's Eve"

Cultivally, we used to be friends, and we knew each other without interruption.

Renewing the bright candle, and observing the New Year's Eve, I will take over the long banquet.

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Li Shimin

The Day of the New Year

The high pavilion is full of spring colors, and the deep pavilion winks at the morning light. The colorful pennants are flying in the red court, and the bright dangles in the green front are shining.

Congratulations to the four extremes, hanging down the clothes to harness the eight wastelands. The frosty halberd is listed on the Dan-ah, and the silk bamboo rhymes with the promenade.

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Zhao Yanzhao

The Giving of Cypress Leaves to Ministers on the First Day of the Fenghu Years of Peace

There are no tools for carving beams, and the materials are not for constructing mansions. But the leaves of a thousand years old are always served as a cup for ten thousand years.

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Shi Qing

"In Response to an Imperial Decree, I Was Given a New Year's Eve (A Poem by Wang Qianlong)

This year's night is over, and next year's day is coming. The cold goes away with the night, and the spring comes with the five nights.

The color of the skin has changed in the air, and the face has returned in the dark. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new one, and you'll be able to do it.