Information about Nian culture

Among the nationalities in China, the most profound culture is "Nian Culture".

Westerners' annual festivals are roughly from Christmas to New Year, one week before and after; China's Lunar New Year (now called the Spring Festival) heard the footsteps of the New Year from the sticky, thick, fragrant and hot Laba porridge in the early days. This year's trip was really too long, and it didn't end in fanaticism until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the following year. Let's see, forty days.

People in China celebrate the Spring Festival, which has a lot to do with agriculture. The event of farmhouse music is based on the four seasons of nature. In the off-season, there will be a lot of days to toss; In 2006, at the beginning of the four seasons, the desire for life was burning. Therefore, for China people, the Chinese New Year must be strengthened. In other words, 2008 is an intensive life.

In this way, all the delicious, fun and good things should be put in the New Year. On weekdays, I try to be frugal. When I was 18 years old, I tried to make my life close to the ideal level. Chinese New Year is the peak of life and the brilliant dream of every child every year.

Every nation in the world has its own fetish. So what do China people worship? Worship the sun? Worship? Bailong? Worship heroes? Worship Lao Tzu? Worship men? Ancestor worship? Worship the emperor and Bao Gong ... No! People in China worship life itself. "Being alive" is often considered as a process of survival. When people kowtow and burn incense to the gods and buddhas between heaven and earth, they do not believe or respect, but hope that the gods and buddhas will bless the world and live a beautiful and rich life. This is nothing more than realizing yearning with the help of the power of gods and buddhas, and life itself is supreme.

During the Chinese New Year, we should idealize life and turn our ideals into life. This kind of life is mixed with charming ideals and has the significance of the New Year. After the New Year, people come out of the unique state of this year and return to life, and the feeling of the New Year disappears immediately, like an illusion. Yes, 2008 is actually an ideal of hard work and an idealized life.

Therefore, no matter what food, clothing, housing and transportation, speech and manners, everything in life is full of the content, significance and spirit of the year. Not to mention firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, blessings, New Year pictures, hanging money, rice cakes, honeydew melons, Yuanxiao, diabolos, riddles, flower parties, ancestor worship, New Year greetings, lucky money, cornucopia, etc. jiaozi was originally a daily food, but it was unusual in the New Year. From jiaozi's "squeezing people's mouths" to eating "reunion jiaozi", the ideal of 2008 and the psychology of 2008 are deeply affected.

But at the moment, the bottle means peace, the goldfish means wealth, the vine means prolongation, the peach means longevity, the wasp and the monkey mean marquis and officials, and the chicken and chrysanthemum all mean good luck ... All images in life are used to illustrate ideals. Life is stained with ideals and suddenly shines brilliantly.

For people who advocate life, ideal is a real desire for life.

Life has joy and satisfaction, but also distress and loss; There are blessings from heaven and disasters. Now, standing at the end of the old year, facing the unknown life, everyone has such a wish: both hope for happiness and fear of disaster. Therefore, for thousands of years, there is a saying that makes this "annual cultural psychology" simple and clear, and that is to drive away evil spirits and reduce happiness.

China people's attitude towards life is very interesting. For example, dragons that can swim and tigers that eat people are fierce, but in China, the image of dragons is not terrible. They just want to play dragon lanterns, and people are in a group, which is festive and lively. The image of the tiger is not cruel, but it is portrayed as majestic and lovely. The tiger shoes and hats run to the children. In this ideal way, life becomes amiable and lovely. Similarly, although the desire of life is difficult to realize, China people have not stopped looking forward to it. Instead, I pull my ideal wishes together with real life, create them with culture, and magically integrate my beautiful and empty yearning with real life. All of a sudden, life becomes extremely close, magnificent and full of vitality. This is also a very special and beautiful feeling of life in the New Year.

Miss new year pictures

Author: Wei Xu (Wuhu, Anhui)

"Walking on the wall, standing on the wall; Just wear clothes and don't eat. " In the past, when this riddle came out, the children would shout in unison: "New Year pictures!" " "But now, I'm afraid there are not many children who know the answer.

When I was a child, I used to stubbornly believe that the New Year came from New Year pictures. Because nothing can better reflect the rich flavor of the New Year than the picture of a baby with chubby limbs like lotus root holding a red carp. At that time, the bookstore was full of fragrant printed matter, and the street stalls were also filled with red Spring Festival couplets, firecrackers and colorful New Year pictures, which were filled with the joy of the New Year.

When buying New Year pictures, my parents always let me choose. Bought "Changbanpo", painted with majestic Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun; I bought animal paintings, including mighty lions and tigers, as well as beautiful peacocks and sika deer ... At that time, the contents of New Year pictures were mostly photos of flowers, birds, insects and stars, and the price was not too expensive. You could buy one for a dime or two. Many children will buy New Year pictures as New Year gifts for teachers and friends.

For ordinary people, it is very important and particular to paste New Year pictures for the New Year. No matter how poor and bitter you are, you can't leave the walls and doors at home empty. For us children, we have a special liking for New Year pictures, because New Year pictures mean the arrival of the New Year, and it is not far from wearing new clothes, eating candy, visiting relatives and collecting lucky money. On New Year's Eve, adults and children will go door to door to see New Year pictures. Whoever has more homes is better. Of course, they should also comment and compare. Only when New Year pictures are posted and firecrackers are set off will the family sit around for dinner.

Over the past 30 years, years have taken away a happy and carefree childhood. Now the custom of posting Spring Festival couplets continues, but in some places, New Year pictures have disappeared without a trace. Occasionally, the memory of New Year pictures will gradually float and relive the lingering warmth in my heart.

Keep old on new year's eve

Author: Han Xiaoling (Yantai, Shandong)

New Year's Eve is the most solemn day of the year. People get up early in the morning, put up Spring Festival couplets, change their door gods, pack jiaozi, and go to the grave to worship their ancestors before dinner. The ancestor worship ceremony is solemn and simple. First, arrange the genealogy and memorial tablet with the names of ancestors and offer sacrifices. Then go to the ancestral graves, burn incense paper, set off firecrackers, and finally bring the spirits of our ancestors into our home. This practice of remembering ancestors is quite western Thanksgiving.

Keep watch on New Year's Eve. I remember when I was a child, there was a kerosene lamp on the table, the wick was the boss, and a "snuff" blossomed, making the whole room bright. Mother sewed buttons for our new cotton-padded clothes under kerosene lamps, while father took out brand-new corner tickets and gave us "lucky money". The family gathered around a basket of melon seeds and chatted while eating. Melon seeds are as endless as topics, and topics are as delicious as melon seeds.

In 1980s, New Year's Eve became the Spring Festival Gala. Before 8 o'clock in the evening, the whole family was staring at the TV. When I heard the beautiful and sweet songs of Li Guyi and Mao Amin, when I saw the funny performances of Zhao Benshan and Song Dandan, and when I appreciated the fighting skills of Niu and Feng Gong, the happiness of the whole family was beyond words.

When I grew up wandering outside, I went home for the New Year and placed my parents' ardent expectations. One winter was particularly cold, and there was a heavy snow at the end of the year. My mother has been looking around for a long time at the intersection of going home. I didn't get home until evening. Before the steaming jiaozi was finished, firecrackers exploded. My daughter stood in the cold wind as I did at that time, looking up at the dazzling fireworks and showing a bright smile.

In life, some things will be easily forgotten, while others will be remembered for a lifetime. I will always cherish the memory and warmth of the Spring Festival.

Dali likes to be a "pig killer" during the New Year.

Author: Wei Xiangyang (Yunnan)

The Bai nationality area in Dali, Yunnan is very particular about the New Year. At that time, the Spring Festival left a deep impression on me. In addition to wearing new clothes and setting off firecrackers to eat Yuanxiao, I am killing pigs and eating pig-killing rice. According to the custom, every household should strive to slaughter one and a half pigs in the middle and late twelfth lunar month, so as to solve the problem of eating meat and oil for one year. There is a saying that pigs should be killed for half a year, because at that time, farmers had to hand over pigs to the national grain department for purchase, and then they could kill pigs to eat meat. Some people have problems eating and dressing, and it is even more difficult to raise a few fat pigs. Even so, the solar terms have to be slaughtered. Half of them have been handed in, and the other half should be reserved for several tables. At this time, the remaining pork will be made into bacon and wax oil for almost a year.

Being a pig killer is the happiest thing for our children. That's because you can eat a few full meals a year when there are not many opportunities to eat meat; Second, the freshly slaughtered pork is fresh, and the authentic roasted pork of Bai farmers smells delicious. Those traditional hospitality dishes, such as fried pork with sauerkraut, vegetable soup with pig blood, taro soup and so on. In retrospect, it makes my mouth water ... In addition to making bacon, the rest are made into "eight bowls of earth" home-cooked dishes hosted by Bai people for the New Year, such as crispy meat, steamed meat, pig's head and pig's foot made into frozen pig's feet and other special dishes.

Over the past 30 years, Dali, like other parts of the motherland, has undergone earth-shaking and gratifying changes. The old imperial calendar of killing pigs and eating meat in the New Year has long been out of date, and there are fewer and fewer opportunities to kill pigs. Occasionally, not eating and drinking, but savory. The increasingly rich entertainment activities have also enriched the content of the New Year, and killing pigs to entertain guests is no longer the main program.

Children's "Firecracker Music" in Eastern Henan Province

Author: Ren (Beijing)

In my hometown, Yudong Plain, firecrackers are always accompanied by children, from the Kitchen God Festival on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the "God of Wealth's birthday" on the fifth day of the first month. Usually, my father buys each of our brothers a small gun with about 50 rounds, and then the elders will send some. At this time, I will calculate how much I put in every day according to the quantity.

Our family doesn't have the habit of "guarding the old age". When we sleep, we use the "three guns" as a whistle to turn off the lights. "One year is good, whoever gets up early will be fine." At the end of three o'clock in the morning, my father would wake everyone up with three shots. At this time, you must not "stay in bed", otherwise you will be lazy for a year. After getting up, we like to sit by the fire and chat with our father while burning firewood. Dad likes to tell us the origin of firecrackers at this moment, and tell us some simple but important truths such as "human desire is really empty". At some point, the pot boiled and went down to jiaozi. The biggest cannon this year will detonate at this juncture. After eating jiaozi, before dawn, "pick up the gun", that is, pick up some small whips that have not yet been detonated, has become a top priority for our children. Everyone is like a race, running from village east to village west and from outside the village to outside. Every child is happy.

Interestingly, because I was deeply impressed by "a wonderful year" (like that year) and "hot guns" (like cannons) in my childhood, I gradually developed the habit of getting up early because of "opening the door" and "receiving guns". Now I still insist on getting up early or working or practicing martial arts, which is refreshing. It can be said that it is given by the Chinese New Year custom.

A few years ago, when I was alone in Guangzhou, Chicago and Beijing for the New Year, I always called my hometown in Shangqiu, Henan. Listening to the firecrackers on the other end of the phone, I seemed to feel the deep nostalgia and affection, and tears filled my eyes.

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When we were young, what we were most looking forward to was the Chinese New Year, because it was not only full of excitement, but more importantly, we could eat many good things that we could not eat at ordinary times, and there were many customs with local flavor and flavor in our memory.

(1) Busy twelfth lunar month

We have a saying there that "the twelfth lunar month is a good time to borrow food", which means that every household is busy in the twelfth lunar month. Busy with what? Mainly to prepare food for the New Year. In the past, people were poor and could not eat at ordinary times, so they had to prepare food for the first month as soon as they entered the twelfth lunar month. Put all the cooked food in a big urn and eat it in the first month, because our place pays attention to not cooking new food in the first month, which means that the situation will sink later.

Just after Laba, I began to be busy. Steam one pot or two or three pots every day. There are many kinds of steamed stuffed buns, such as those with bean stuffing, those from jujube hill, those with flower cakes, those with wealth and dragons, those with blue faces and so on. There are many exquisite things, such as jujube hill, which actually has nothing to do with mountains, that is, jujube buns are just a little big, but every household in our village should have them, meaning "getting up early" (getting rich) and offering them in front of the kitchen god on New Year's Eve; Another example is "Qianlong", which is generally for boys. There is a noodle dragon on the jujube cake and a coin in the dragon's mouth. I didn't eat until February 2 nd. Adults want their children to earn more money when they grow up, so they call it "Qianlong" ... everything else has its own meaning.

These things will be busy until the end of the year. On New Year's Eve, we will clean the yard, wrap jiaozi and put up couplets, just waiting for the Spring Festival.

(2) New Year's Eve

The real Spring Festival begins on New Year's Eve. After putting up couplets and having lunch, the whole family began to pack jiaozi, which is essential for every household every year. The Aauto Quicker family wrapped up jiaozi early and watched the Spring Festival Gala at night. My family has a lot of business, and I often watch the Spring Festival Gala while I am in jiaozi, but this is now. When I was a child, there was no electricity in our village, let alone TV. The most important thing on New Year's Eve is to endure the Year, which is probably related to the legend of the Year.

The so-called "endure the New Year" is actually staying up late. In some places, it is called "vigil", which lasts from New Year's Eve to morning. According to the old people, whoever can survive the New Year will have good luck in the coming year. Usually, most people are frugal. They blow the lights at night and go to bed early, but on New Year's Eve, they have to turn on the lights all night. I don't know why, but I guess it's for luck. I remember one year, I also wanted to "endure for one year". My mother said, you are so young, how can you stand it? Go to sleep. I don't listen and insist on "living". My mother had no choice but to let me. She slept with her father. I sat on the kang and stared at the oil lamp. After a while, I was so confused that I couldn't keep going. I finally fell asleep when I blew the lamp and woke up the next morning. I was a little angry when I saw my mother, and I don't know who told you to blow out the light ... fortunately, it was the first day of the New Year's Day, and I didn't say much about me, but I knew my mother was not very happy because it was dark on New Year's Eve.

Another important thing on New Year's Eve is "calming the nerves". It is said that the gods report the situation on the earth on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month and return to the earth on New Year's Eve, so people should take good care of God. When my mother arranges the food for the next day, before going to bed, she will set off some firecrackers in the yard, which means "safety" and "God". After that, she can't walk around casually, so she can only sleep quietly. If you want to "get through the New Year", you can only stay indoors quietly.

On New Year's Day, the most important thing in the morning is to "catch up with God", and whoever arrives first will be blessed. Therefore, people in the village are like competitions, so they should "catch up with God" early. The ceremony is still a little mysterious. Come along, there shouldn't be any big moves. Wash your hands first to show your respect for God. Never spill water on the ground when washing your hands, otherwise it will be unlucky. Then, we should open the street gate, let the fairy in, and then let off a few cannons, even if the fairy is brought in, and then we will have breakfast in the New Year.

After breakfast, it's time to go out and pay a New Year call. First, I go to my elders' home. The so-called New Year greeting is to pray for good luck, say "Happy New Year" and so on, and then I will go to other relatives and friends' homes. So the morning passed.

The taste of the year remains the same.

Author: Li Shixin (from Qixian County, Henan Province)

"Laba, offering sacrifices to the stove, New Year's Day is here." I don't know how many generations this is. Compared with before, although we don't have to be busy with the Spring Festival now, it's still the same for the old people to give their children lucky money when they pack jiaozi on New Year's Eve, stick a door in firecrackers, and then go to jiaozi for a family reunion dinner. As far as I can remember, before the reunion dinner, many housewives would sacrifice in the yard, bow down and pray, and worship the world and ancestors.

After the reunion dinner, I added the water from jiaozi on the first morning to the pot, put the grates on it, served steamed bread, and began to observe the New Year. "Three shots are fired when the door is closed on New Year's Eve, and three shots are fired when the door is opened on the first day." After three shots, jiaozi is past lives. Don't make any noise when you go down to jiaozi, but jiaozi should set off firecrackers when he is out of the pot. After jiaozi finished, he first sent a bowl to his parents, uncles and elders nearby. Because neighbors have mixed surnames, it is a tradition in our village to send jiaozi to the elders regardless of their surnames.

After the New Year in jiaozi, the younger generation will pay a New Year call to their elders. Saying "Happy New Year" is not like kowtowing in the old society, just asking for peace, chatting, expressing affection and creating a warm, harmonious, respectful and loving atmosphere. Next, the Chinese New Year will enter another climax-visiting relatives: on the first day of the first month, adopted sons and daughters will go to michel platini's parents' home; The next day, the married daughter returned to her family; On the third day, the daughter married by her parents went back to her parents' house to sweep their graves. From the fourth day, other relatives began to move around until the seventh and eighth days. Looking around, the road is still full of traffic and excitement.

On the thirteenth night, the children began to pick lanterns for three consecutive nights; On New Year's Eve, every household began to send lights. 15 National Day 16 in the morning, before the sun comes out, there will be a bunch of moldy fires-"bake before, bake after, go out and pick up a big ingot"; In the past, the girl's daughter-in-law had to go to the field to pull weeds-"pull weeds, pull weeds, pull weeds, and climb home with money." How auspicious!

On the fifteenth and sixteenth nights, palace lanterns were put on, which was very lively. On the seventeenth night, the mouse married a woman, and every household did not light a lamp, which was extremely silent. -At this point, the year is really over.

Looking back, I think some old traditions and customs in my hometown have not only been inherited, but also changed. However, the flavor of the year that has existed since ancient times is still passed on during the Chinese New Year, which makes people feel the warmth of acquaintance.

A busy year

Author: Xian Qingying (from Feixian County, Shandong Province)

As far as I can remember, when I was a child, every New Year, the adults were busy around.

Mom and grandma are busy cooking. As soon as we entered the twelfth lunar month, we set up cigarettes and baked pancakes in the yard. Two people lit a fire and baked pancakes for several days. They baked a few piles of tall ones, put them in pots and covered them with bags, and they could eat them until February and March. After flipping pancakes, you have to make tofu, raw bean sprouts and steamed rice cakes. To make tofu and steamed rice cakes, you must first grind beans and millet into pulp with a stone mill. My mother was too busy, so she called me and my brother to help push the mill. We played in the mill while pushing, and we couldn't feel the cold in the cold winter. That's not enough. We want to cook kelp, stir-fry new year's goods, and chop the stuffing of pots and pans. Good kelp hangs on the clothesline in the yard like clothes; There is a big basket full of fried food. When I think of it, I will quietly pinch one to eat. One year, our family also bought a pig head in partnership with my second uncle's family. My dad and my second uncle were busy all night before they packed up, and a large pot of pig heads froze. ...

Father is busy catching up with the new year's goods one by one. There is a five-day annual gathering. When my father finished chasing Dongzhuang and Xizhuang, he took the hijab nailed by his mother and his own basket to the new year collection and sold it. Then he bought back the things for the New Year from the new year's goods, such as slender hairtail, bundles of kelp, chopsticks, bowls, firecrackers, burning paper and incense for heaven, small porcelain pots for burning incense, fried beans and firecrackers for his younger brother.

At that time, I was frugal all the year round. The feeling I got during the Chinese New Year was to save everything I should eat and use for a year until those days. Therefore, when I was a child, I always looked forward to the Spring Festival. The most important reason is that there are delicious food, good clothes and fun in the New Year.

Now I'm not so busy during the New Year, because the living conditions are better, and eating and dressing every day is like the New Year, and because those foods can be easily bought without doing it yourself. Many people say that the taste of Chinese New Year is weak now. Looking at the delicious food on the dining table, the scale of new year's goods and the crowds entertaining in the streets during the Chinese New Year are richer, more festive and more lively than in the past. Perhaps, it is not that the taste of the year is weak now, but that people's lives are more abundant today.

Miss the old Spring Festival couplets.

Author: Jia Qingbin (Baoding, Hebei)

"In addition to firecrackers at the age of one, the spring breeze warmed Tu Su. Thousands of families always change new peaches for old ones every day. " Mentioning the flavor of the New Year always reminds people of the bright red Spring Festival couplets. These Spring Festival couplets are posted in different places and have different contents. For example, "faithfulness has been handed down from generation to generation for a long time, and it is appropriate to stick it on the door"; The wall or tree of "Population Peace" posted outside nave gate was changed to "Look up but don't see", and everywhere the Spring Festival couplets went was full of joy and festive atmosphere. I remember writing Spring Festival couplets in the early morning of the 31st that year. Grandpa studied in a private school for several years, and his calligraphy was beautiful. I also helped him. On New Year's Day, people want to see whose Spring Festival couplets are good in content and beautiful in handwriting. Until I went out for many years, I still kept the habit of writing and posting Spring Festival couplets when I went home for the New Year.

Now back in the countryside, people seldom write Spring Festival couplets themselves. City people paste printed Spring Festival couplets, which are exquisite, but lack warmth and interest. I really miss the old Spring Festival couplets. /view/3ba e70320 B4 C2 E3 f 572763 b 3 . html/q/ 136 1484793069952/view/25 a 72 e 2 be 2 BD 960590 c 67754 . html