What are the origins and customs of the Spring Festival?

The Spring Festival originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, and evolved from the sacrifice of praying for the New Year at the beginning of ancient times. In addition, there is a legend that in ancient China, there was a beast called Nian, which would climb ashore every New Year's Eve, devour livestock and hurt people's lives, so people helped the old and the young escape to the mountains. One year on New Year's Eve, a begging old man stayed at Dongtou's house in the village for one night and drove Nian beast away with firecrackers. Since then, people have set off firecrackers to celebrate every New Year's Eve. In addition, there is also a saying that one day more than 2000 BC, Shun followed the leader of the tribal alliance and led his men to worship heaven and earth. Since then, people have regarded this day as the first day of the first month (the beginning of the first month) and later called it the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, and evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong local characteristics. [1][77][78] In the early era of observing images and timing, "bucket handle Yin Hui" was the beginning of a year to determine the age according to the changes of stars. "bucket handle Yin Hui" returns to the earth in spring, and everything is renewed, thus opening a new cycle. In the traditional farming society, it is of great significance to return to the earth in spring at the beginning of the year, which has spawned a large number of related festivals and customs. In the historical development, although the calendar is different and the date of the first festival is different, its festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with a century as the first and four seasons as the first. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Spring Festival is also known as Spring Festival, Lunar New Year's Day, Lunar New Year's Day, Lunar New Year's Day, and one of the four traditional festivals in China. The traditional custom of ***34 sacrificial furnace is a traditional custom with great influence and wide spread among Han people. The folk sacrificial furnace originated from the ancient custom of worshipping fire. Sacrificing a stove is also called sending a stove, because it is said that the next day, the Kitchen King Bodhisattva will report to the Jade Emperor about the "work" of the Kitchen King Bodhisattva and what she has seen and heard in the past year, such as whether food is dumped at home or not, whether fireworks are not cherished and so on. Dust cleaning, also known as house cleaning, house cleaning, dust removal, slag removal, dust removal, dust removal, etc. Is one of the traditional Chinese New Year customs in China. Before a busy year, the main theme was to throw away old cloth and make new cloth. Dust removal means year-end cleaning, which is called "cleaning" in the south and "cleaning" in the north. Its original intention is to sweep away all "bad luck" and "bad luck", and to pin on the good wishes of the Chinese nation to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters and welcome good luck. The folk song says, "Twenty-four, Dust Clearing Day." On this day, every household should clean up, dust off cobwebs, clean all kinds of appliances, tear down and wash bedding curtains, clean the courtyard in Liu Lu, and dredge the culverts. Meeting the Jade Emperor is one of the traditional folk beliefs in China. People in China believe that when the Kitchen God goes to heaven, the Jade Emperor will personally descend to the lower world on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month to examine the good and evil in the world and decide the fortune for the coming year. Therefore, every household gives its blessing, which is called "receiving the Jade Emperor". While China people greeted the Jade Emperor, there were also ceremonies of greeting and offering sacrifices in Taoist temples. For example, Baiyun Temple in Beijing has an activity of receiving Buddha boards, which is the ceremony of welcoming the Jade Emperor on New Year's Eve. See more common food *** 12 entries on the Spring Festival table. Look at jiaozi jiaozi. The first name is wonton. It has many names, such as trough, horn, plaque food, flat food, prison pill, pink horn, jiaozi bait, jiaozi bait, water snack, water jiaozi, jiaozi seed and so on. Jiaozi has various cooking methods, such as boiling, steaming, frying and roasting. Since the Song Dynasty, there has been the custom of eating jiaozi in winter solstice, and since the Ming Dynasty, there has been the custom of eating jiaozi on the first day of the first month. Tangyuan Tangyuan, also known as "Tangtuan" and "Floating Zi Yuan", is one of the representatives of Han traditional snacks. At the same time, it is also the most distinctive food in the traditional Lantern Festival in China, and it also expresses the yearning and expectation of the ancient people for a happy life. According to legend, Tangyuan originated in the Song Dynasty. At that time, a novel food appeared in Mingzhou (now Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province), which was made of black sesame seeds and pork suet, with a little sugar added, and kneaded with glutinous rice flour outside. After cooking, the taste is sweet and soft, with endless aftertaste. At the same time, glutinous rice balls symbolize family reunion, and eating glutinous rice balls also means family happiness and reunion in the New Year, so it is a must-have food for the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month. New year cake (nián-gāo, new year cake; Rice cake), a traditional food of Han nationality in China, belongs to the seasonal food of the Lunar New Year. Rice cakes are made of rice or glutinous rice, boiled into rice, beaten with water or ground into powder, and pressed. During the Spring Festival, many areas in China pay attention to eating rice cakes. There are three colors of rice cakes: red, yellow and white, which symbolize gold and silver. The rice cake is also called "rice cake", which is homophonic with "getting taller every year", meaning that children are getting taller every year. Therefore, there is a poem by predecessors, which called the rice cake: "The meaning of the rice cake is slightly deeper, and it is as white as silver and gold. I hope that when I get old, I will be profitable, and I sincerely hope that my wealth will come. " Historical Records, a cookbook in the 6th century A.D., recorded the making of "white cocoon candy" for rice cakes at that time. There are fewer rice cakes in the north, but the south is still prosperous. During the Spring Festival, I watched more 23 entries of China traditional lunar festivals, and 273,000 people read the customs of off-year festivals, such as sweeping dust and offering sacrifices to stoves. Sweep the dust on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, pick up the jade emperor, and take photos of silkworms. See more four entries of four traditional festivals in China * * *, and read the Spring Festival at 654.38+099,000, that is, the Lunar New Year in China, commonly known as "Spring Festival", "New Year" and "New Year's Eve", also known as "New Year's Eve" and "New Year's Eve". It is a combination of the old and the new, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, and reuniting with relatives and friends. The Spring Festival has a long history, which originated from the primitive belief and worship of nature of early human beings, and evolved from praying for the New Year at the beginning of the year in ancient times. Everything is based on heaven, and people are based on ancestors, praying for the elderly, respecting the ancestors of heaven, and returning to the original. The origin of the Spring Festival contains profound cultural connotations, and it carries rich historical and cultural connotations in its inheritance and development. During the Spring Festival, various activities will be held all over the country to celebrate the Spring Festival, which has strong local characteristics. In the early days of observing images and time, "Yin Hui with a barrel handle" is the beginning of a year. "bucket handle Yin Hui" returns to the earth in spring, and everything is renewed, thus opening a new cycle. In the traditional farming society, it is of great significance to return to the earth in spring at the beginning of the year, which has spawned a large number of related festivals and customs. In the historical development, although the calendar is different and the date of the first festival is different, its festival framework and many folk customs have been passed down. In modern times, people set the Spring Festival on the first day of the first lunar month, but generally it doesn't end until at least the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The Spring Festival is the most solemn traditional festival of the Chinese nation, with a century as the first and four seasons as the first. Influenced by China culture, some countries and regions in the world also have the custom of celebrating the Spring Festival. According to incomplete statistics, nearly 20 countries and regions have designated the Spring Festival in China as a legal holiday in all or part of the cities under their jurisdiction. Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The folk custom of Spring Festival was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Tomb-Sweeping Day and Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival, ancestor worship festival, etc. It was celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from the ancestor belief of early human beings, is the biggest ancestor worship festival of the Chinese nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day has two connotations of nature and humanity, which are both natural solar terms and traditional festivals. Grave-sweeping and hiking are two major themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day's customs and habits, which have been circulating in China since ancient times and have never stopped. The second bucket (or solar calendar reaches 15) is Tomb-Sweeping Day gas, and the time of gas exchange in Tomb-Sweeping Day generally changes from April 4 to 6 in Gregorian calendar, which is not fixed on a certain day, but April 5 is the most common. Qingming, a solar term, is full of vitality, and everything "spits out the old and absorbs the new". The earth presents the image of spring and tranquility, which is a good opportunity for a spring outing and Qingming ceremony in the suburbs. Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship is very long, 8 days before Tomb-Sweeping Day 10, and 8 days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day 10 (at the turn of the middle and late spring). These nearly 20 days belong to Tomb-Sweeping Day who worships his ancestors. Tomb-Sweeping Day is a traditional major Spring Festival. It is a fine tradition of the Chinese nation since ancient times to sweep graves and remember our ancestors. It is not only conducive to promoting filial piety, awakening family memories, but also conducive to promoting the cohesion and identity of family members and even the nation. Tomb-Sweeping Day's integration of natural solar terms and humanistic customs is a combination of humanistic and natural conditions, which fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' pursuit of harmony between heaven, earth and people, pays attention to conforming to the right time, place and people, and follows the laws of nature. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Besides China, some countries and regions in the world also have Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Viet Nam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore. On May 20th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Tomb-Sweeping Day announced by People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Ministry of Culture was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and so on. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs blend with each other, and the content or details of customs are different due to different regional cultures. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage. On June 8, 2022,65438+February 8, 2022, the Notice of the General Office of the State Council on the Arrangement of Some Holidays in 2023 was issued. Dragon Boat Festival in 2023: From June 22nd to 24th, the holiday will be suspended for 3 days. See more common new year goods in the Spring Festival *** 12 Entry 23000 reading nut (English name: nut), which is a closed fruit classification with hard skin and seeds of 1 or above. Such as chestnut, almond and other fruits. Nuts are the essence of plants, which are generally rich in nutrition, high in protein, oil, minerals and vitamins, and have an excellent effect on human growth and development, physical fitness and disease prevention. According to authoritative research, eating nuts more than twice a week can reduce people's risk of fatal heart disease, which is the accurate result obtained by the American doctor health research project after investigating 20 thousand men. Candy candy is a kind of candy cake, which refers to a snack with sugar as the main component. If a fruit or nut is covered with sugar, it is called a dessert (such as Sugar-Coated Berry). In the broad sense of Asian culture, chocolate and chewing gum are often regarded as a kind of candy. In Europe and America, candy only refers to products made of white sugar or maltose. In ancient times, Europe and America even used honey as raw material to make candy, but because honey is too rich and difficult to control, it is not suitable for industrial production. Fruits and fruits refer to succulent and edible plant fruits with sweet and sour taste as the main taste. Fruit is not only rich in vitamin nutrition, but also can promote digestion. See more songs suitable for the Spring Festival atmosphere * *18 entry 13000 Read Happy New Year Little Tiger SINGing, Tuan Tuan Yuan Yuan SING Singing released 1989, Congratulate Sing Singing released on 20 18, 20 16 to see more about the Spring Festival. This poem describes the moving scene of excitement, joy and Vientiane renewal on New Year's Day, expresses the author's thoughts and feelings about political innovation, and is full of cheerful and positive spirit. Happy New Year is a poem by Wen Zhiming, a poet in the Ming Dynasty. Snow Removal at Night is a seven-character poem written by Lu You (1125-1210). See more common Spring Festival decorations ***9 entry 1.8 million Read Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "door pairs" and "couplets", which are one of the festive elements posted during the New Year. It depicts a beautiful image and expresses good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words. It is a unique literary form in China and an important custom for China people to celebrate the New Year. When people put up Spring Festival couplets (Spring Festival couplets, blessings, window grilles, etc. ) At their doorstep, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicked off. Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere. Chinese paper-cutting Chinese paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. In China, paper-cutting has a broad mass base and is integrated into the social life of people of all ethnic groups. It is an important part of various folk activities. It inherits the continuous visual image and modeling format, contains rich cultural and historical information, expresses the social cognition, moral concept, practical experience, life ideal and aesthetic taste of the general public, and has multiple social values such as cognition, education, expression, lyricism, entertainment and communication. On May 20th, 2006, the paper-cut art heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. At the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held from September 28th to June 54381October 2nd, 2009, China announced that the Chinese paper-cutting project was included in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity". On 20 18 12, the general office of the Ministry of Education announced Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics as the heritage base of Chinese excellent traditional culture in paper cutting. The New Year picture is a kind of painting in China, which originated from the ancient "door-god painting". It is one of the folk arts in China and one of the common folk handicrafts. New Year pictures are unique to China, and they are also an art form loved by rural people in China. Most of them are used for posting in the New Year, decorating the environment and wishing the New Year auspicious and festive, hence the name New Year Pictures. Traditional folk New Year pictures are mostly made of wood watermarks. The old version of New Year pictures has different names because of different frame sizes and processing methods. The whole New Year picture is called "Palace Tip", which is a piece of paper.