How did the ancients celebrate the New Year?

0 1 On Lunar New Year's Eve, the ancients prayed for good luck in the new year by cleaning up their families, changing door gods, hanging Zhong Kui, nailing peach charms and keeping old. On the first day of the first lunar month, after the third night of the lunar calendar, at the fifth watch, not only firecrackers exploded in the palace, but also a grand greeting of the Yuan Dynasty was held. The common people also set off firecrackers, and began to worship the heavens and the earth, worship their ancestors and pay New Year greetings to each other.

? Spring Festival? This word did not exist in ancient times, and it was renamed Spring Festival after the introduction of the solar calendar in the Republic of China. It used to be called China New Year. And in ancient times? Year? Not on the 29th or 30th of the twelfth lunar month, but in? Wax Day? That is later? Rabbah? . After the northern and southern dynasties, let go? Wax sacrifice? Move to the end of the year

So how did the ancients celebrate the New Year?

First, ancestor worship. Sacrificing ancestors is a grand folk activity during the Spring Festival of the Chinese nation. China people have a tradition of pursuing the future cautiously. They must worship and remember their ancestors during the Spring Festival. Due to different local customs, some places worship before New Year's Eve. Some places worship before and after New Year's Eve; In some places, on the morning of the first day of junior high school, people worship God before opening the door. In the north, do you want New Year's Eve? Please go home. Every family should provide genealogy, ancestor statues, memorial tablets, etc. In the upper hall of the house, an altar, incense burners and offerings are placed. On the second morning of the second year, people who send their families away and then go to the grave to worship their ancestors are commonly known as tomb sacrifices. This is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation and should be put before everything. The sacrifice was grand. Do you still remember Lu Xun's Sister Xianglin? Sister Xianglin can't attend ancestor worship.

? Second, while offering sacrifices to ancestors, they sometimes offer sacrifices to gods and land gods. I have seen my old people worship the Jade Emperor and the Empress Dowager during the Spring Festival, burn three incense sticks, pray for a bumper harvest, and finally burn paper. Off-year, it's time for Kitchen God to report his work to heaven. From now on, every household should make yellow flour cakes, block the mouth of the kitchen god and do a general cleaning.

Third, set off firecrackers, which I called when I was a child? Whip? Still playing? Firecrackers?

? Tang dynasty poetry cloud:? The new calendar is only half open, and the small court is still bursting. ? Poems of Wang Anshi in Song Dynasty:? The roar of firecrackers, the old year has passed; The warm spring breeze ushered in the New Year, and people happily drank the newly brewed Tu Su wine. ? "Nerve" says that there is shame in Xishan Mountain, and it is hot and cold to commit it. But it is afraid of bamboo bursting. So people burn bamboo to drive it away. After the invention of gunpowder, people still set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival. In the Southern Song Dynasty, there was an explosive war in which gunpowder was wrapped in papyrus paper and rolled into a roll. Old things in Wulin: As for the explosion, more than 100 drug lines were hidden in a row. ? This refers to firecrackers strung together with medicinal thread. Another foot, there is a poem in the Ming dynasty:? The season is coming, the cold flame is emitting, and there are thunder on people's heads. ?

? Fourth, eat jiaozi. Jiaozi's original name? Joule? Originated in Wancheng, Central Plains, more than 1,800 years ago. It is said that it was invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor from Nanyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty. When wrapping jiaozi, people usually wrap Jin Ruyi, sugar, peanuts, dates and chestnuts into stuffing. Eat the best and sugar, life will be sweeter in the coming year, and those who eat peanuts will live a long and healthy life.

? 5. Arrive at the account. In ancient times, there was a tradition of not paying debts in the first month. In the past, the debts of commercial transactions had to be settled at the end of the year, so creditors had to urge them to pay. The debtor is very sad for the new year, just like going through customs, so it is called the new year. Therefore, many debtors have to hide out before the first day of junior high school and dare to come back on the first day, such as Yang Bailao in White-haired Girl.

? Sixth, post Spring Festival couplets. Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao. They are rectangular red boards hanging on both sides of the gate in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the Book of the Later Han Dynasty? According to "Etiquette Tongzhi", the peach symbol is six inches long and three inches wide, and the book on the mahogany board is a great god. Divine path? 、? Lei Yu? The name of. It is used to ward off evil spirits, and people still think that mahogany is used to ward off evil spirits. "Song history according to? Meng Changjun, a famous family of Shu, wrote a pair of couplets on the mahogany board. New Year's Day in Qing Yu, Cargeno. Changchun? This is one of the earliest Spring Festival couplets in China. Is it in Wang Anshi's poem "January Day"? Thousands of families always trade new peaches for old ones? Sentence. In the Song Dynasty, peach symbols changed from mahogany boards to paper. Spring stickers? And then what? Spring Festival couplets? .