In China, there are all those customs for celebrating the traditional Chinese New Year

What is Nian? Nian is the image of the ears of grain drooping down, a symbol of harvest, the so-called "ripening of the grains is said to be Nian".

What is Nian? The year is a monster that spends all year round in the deep sea, only coming ashore on New Year's Eve. Once it

came ashore, it flooded wherever it went. Later, people put up red paper in front of their homes, burned firewood in the yard, gathered

fire, chopped vegetables and meat with kitchen knives, and made a thunderous sound. The "year" was scared back into the sea.

New Year's Eve is a time for putting up couplets, hanging lanterns, wearing new clothes, and chopping dumplings and making dumplings, and then at night you have to gather the fire and burn the firewood, and that's the year.

So how did the ancient people celebrate the New Year? Let's listen to this "New Year's Day Song"----

Twenty-three sacrifices to Zaotian,

Twenty-four writing couplets,

Twenty-five making bean curd,

Twenty-six cutting New Year's meat,

Twenty-five making tofu, and twenty-six cutting the meat. Meat,

............

Kowtow on the first and second days of the year,

Juggle balls on the third and fourth days of the year,

Dance with monkeys on the fifth and sixth days of the year,

... .........

"Have a big year, busy half a year", the ancients from the waxing of the month began to busy "annual affairs", until after the first day of the New Year's Eve, this year < /p>

It is finished. Then we trace the ancients of the "year step", the first to sacrifice the stove -

The stove is a year of worship of the gods in the most exposed one,

The custom of sacrificing the stove is very early, is the ancestors of the fire, the stove of gratitude,

The expression of reverence.

The custom of sacrificing to the stove has been around for a long time, and is an expression of the ancestors' gratitude and reverence for the fire and stove. In the legend, the Yellow Emperor, Yan Di, Zhu Rong

were all Zao deities. The popular Zaoshen of later times was surnamed Zhang List, with the character Ziguo, who looked

like a beautiful woman. He had a wife named "Qing Ji", six daughters all named "Cha Qiao", and several generals. In addition to being in charge of the stove fire, he was also responsible for examining what was being done on earth and reporting it to the Heavenly Emperor. People also used wine lees, caramelized sugar and sticky cakes to bribe the god of the stove

and prayed and begged him to speak good words in heaven. This

property has been passed down to the present day, but the time is on the 24th day of the Lunar New Year,

sacrificial food has also been simplified into the "stove sugar stove cake", but if you pay attention

if you will still hear grandma, mom in the instructions of the king of the stove: on the

heaven to say good things, not good can not say! ......

The firecracker sound of a year, the spring breeze sends warmth into the TuSu,

Thousands of households pupil day, always put the new peach for the old symbols.

--Wang Anshi

The firecracker was initially a tool of witchcraft to drive away demons and ghosts. The first firecrackers were not firecrackers like today's

but real bamboo, which was burned to make a crackling sound to frighten ghosts and monsters. Tusu is Tusu wine, which means

to kill ghosts and wake up human souls. It is said that drinking this wine on the morning of the first day of the year can keep you from getting sick for a year, and then the wine drunk in the Spring Festival will be collectively known as "Tusu Wine".

Peach symbols, also known as "peach plate", is the predecessor of the Spring Festival couplets. Ancient people believe that peach wood is the essence of the five wood, can control the ghosts, so from the

Han Dynasty, it is useful to use the peach for the aversion to victory of the custom, peach wood for peach people, peach seal, peach plate, peach symbols, etc. to ward off evil spirits. Peach symbols

Converted into spring scrolls are said to have originated from Meng Chang, the lord of Shu in the Five Dynasties. Paper-based spring scrolls flourished only in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Today's

Chinese New Year's couplets are meant to render the atmosphere of the New Year's festivals, wishing good luck and seeking good fortune, and have already lost the role of the old Spring Festival couplets to drive away, but also rich in content

rich, diverse forms.

Writing the couplets, the next preparation for the New Year's food, New Year's Day

diet, such as rice cakes, New Year's Eve dinner, the year-end dumplings, and so on. There are also

highly witchcraft-flavored foods, such as peach soup, cypress wine, pepper wine, and five

sin plates. Peach soup is a soup made from peaches, cypress wine is a kind of wine made from cypress leaves, and pepper wine is wine made from pepper seeds, which the ancients drank on the first day of the first lunar month to ward off evil spirits and pray for good luck. Five Xin plate that is to onion, ginger and other five kinds of spicy

spicy food on a plate, also known as the spring plate. It is said to ward off evil, get rid of the plague,

Through the five viscera, but also has the meaning of congratulations on the new.

The hotel cold light alone do not sleep, the guest heart what to turn miserable.

This is the first time I've thought about my hometown, and I'll be there tomorrow.

New Year's Eve is the night of reunion, the Chinese people are difficult to solve a reunion knot, even if the people at the end of the world, but also in the New Year's Eve

night to rush home to eat New Year's Eve dinner, the year-end vigil. New Year's Eve home is an extraordinarily warm and sweet space, and in history even

even prisoners in jail were released to go home for a reunion. The whole family sits at the table and begins the process of "reunion" and "observance of the New Year"

. First, there is a "New Year's dinner", after which the whole family sits together to observe the New Year.

At this time, the youngest children salute their fathers and grandfathers and parents to say goodbye,

and the oldest people have to share the New Year's money. Pressing the new year's money, also known as "bet on the year

money," "on behalf of the year-old money," "year-old money," originally used to

aversion to drive away evil spirits, to help small children in the New Year, the later generations are more

This is a way to show affection and love.

After the New Year's Eve dinner, there will be "night", the family ate

snacks, or laughing and playing, or words of rain, waiting for the day

Ming, which is the old age vigil. In addition to New Year's Eve, there is a mirror to listen to,

Shine field silkworms, selling dementia, playing ash heap and other customs, as a way to

Divine the year's good and bad luck and blame, and pray for a new year of children

Clever, all things are as you wish.

"In the countryside New Year's Eve, from Lunar New Year until the first half of the first month, a full month and a half of gongs and drums, the sound of this monotonous,

but impressed to every one of us in the heart of the Chinese people. It was at this time that ...... found the spring flowers blooming."

Yes, the spring flowers are blooming, and a new year has come!

The ancients called the first eight days of the new positive with six animals and people and valleys respectively. The first day of the first month of the new year was the day of the rooster, the auspicious day.

The ancients used chickens to ward off evil spirits by killing chickens at the door or posting paintings of chickens at the door. Starting from New Year's Day, people began to be busy

Paying homage to the New Year and celebrating the festival. In the Han Dynasty, it was popular to pay homage to the emperor and his subjects on the first day of the first month of the Chinese New Year. By the

Ming and Qing dynasties, the official New Year's visit has developed into a virtual ritual, often "looking at the door to throw thorns", regardless of recognition.

There is a poem for proof:

Not seeking to meet but through the visit, the famous paper towards the full my hut.

I also cast a number of paper with people, the world is too simple not too false.

In the folk belief, the first to the fourth, is the new year's carnival days, to the fifth only to resume the usual life

Life. The customary activity on the fifth day of the month, also known as the "fifth day of the month", is to "send the poor", and for merchants, the fifth day of the month is the day of business

opening of the business. The activities of the first month until the fifteenth, and only gradually calm ......