The Origin and Customs of Spring Festival

According to historical records, the Spring Festival is called "solar term" in Tang Yu. The Xia Dynasty was called "worshipping" Shang Dynasty, and the Zhou Dynasty was called "Nian". The original meaning of "year" refers to the growth cycle of grain. Xiaomi's hot spring festival this year, once a year, has the meaning of cool breeze and good weather. Through the Spring Festival, which originated in the "primitive society" at the end of1February, and then in the spring of1February every year, the ancestors of pigs and sheep are slaughtered to worship ghosts and ancestors and pray for a new year to replace natural disasters. Face painted with vermilion, wearing bird feathers, dancing, singing, eating and drinking, very lively. about

The happy New Year's Eve of the other party has been a classic record since the Han Dynasty.

Ancient Chinese New Year Diet Customs

/& gt； * In the later Han Dynasty, ancestor worship was an important activity and custom in China during the Lunar New Year. Cui's "Four-person Monthly Order" said: "The first day of the first month is the right day. Bow to the slave's speed, clean the ancestors, drink the gods, get married, peck the relatives, ancestors, and when they arrive at the great-grandchildren, they will each offer pepper and wine. " Birthday banquet, Yan Yan is the same.

/& gt； * During the Southern Dynasties, China New Year families exchanged cranes, banquets and leisure activities. According to the rise of Ren Liang Brown's A Record of Jingchu Times, "Oh, ... the message of young people and old people is that wearing pepper cypress makes white crane wine, Qin Tao soup makes Tu Su wine, and rubber teeth are under Orfila's plate." Draw chickens, set off firecrackers, hang and beg.

During the Spring Festival, the etiquette elements of food customs became more and more serious in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. According to "Dream" collected in the Southern Song Dynasty, "Doctor Tu is celebrating the New Year, and both men and women wear new clothes, so they worship at festivals." Brahma Land records: "Men and women turn to their elders, leading young leaves' family and friends, or excluding them as children's representatives, so-called New Year", and Qingbo Magazine records: "In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, New Year's Day often acts as. When friends celebrate the New Year, the host family must hold a banquet, and the wine and meat are extremely rich. "Records of Jiatai Meeting": "On New Year's Day, men and women stayed in the house, and the owner of wine and fruit laid the foundation for men and women to worship with a sequence completed by a Yi relative, and set up a stage model of wine and food in Japan, in which the fifth day and the end. Ji Sheng's "Royal Square Times" in Qing Dynasty said: "The people look at the house, add costumes, and are willing to dress up to worship the gods and ancestors; The family gathering of burning mulberry silk is complete and cool, with pepper boards, pouring wine, steaming cakes and sipping powder soup. Welcome to the pharmacist temple. The shadow of leaves borders Cambodia. Lu Yu's family and friends, Yu and I all hope that New Year's Eve is "New Year's Eve", and Fengjie wine undoubtedly has three pairs of glasses. If you are immersed together, you will get drunk! Roughly speaking, the new festival of regular worship, sitting for a while and driving in Tian Xuan for fun, can be said to be a very temporary victory. "

Usually eat rice cakes, jiaozi, cakes, glutinous rice balls, scrambled eggs, big meat, whole fish, wine, oranges, apples, peanuts, melon seeds, candy, tea and yaozhuan; There are also dusty mountains, washing bedding, buying equipment, couplets, pasting New Year pictures, pasting paper-cuts, pasting candles with blessings, lighting fires, setting off firecrackers, giving lucky money on New Year's Eve, and visiting relatives during the New Year.

The ancestral graves and the community fires in the downtown flower market have triggered many activities and the climax of children and grandchildren. For example, during the Chinese New Year, special attention should be paid: first, the whole family can be sure that they have received it, and they must leave a seat and a set of tableware for some reason, reflecting the significance of reunion; Abundant meals emphasize "luck", rice cakes are called "step by step", jiaozi is called "absolute drinking", running eggs are called "gold ingot" and goldfish are called "more than a year"; You must pay attention to the fish you eat. "You see, I have to save it for the first day of consumption. In the northern part of the area, the above-mentioned substitute carved wooden fish has no fish; The three seats are orderly, and many grandparents are lined up. In the center, parents of all ages should drink at home. Shut up, this meal is lively and interesting.

The dishes on New Year's Eve have their own characteristics around them. In old Beijing and Tianjin, people usually cook rice, stew pork, beef, mutton and chicken and do some cooking. Shaanxi family banquets are generally four large plates and eight large plates, and four belts are used for cooking cold dishes. Eight large plates are mainly stewed dishes and boiled water. Located in the south of Anhui, only meat dishes include pork, tiger meat, jiaozi, moo Shu pork, doctors, stewed pork, pork liver, pork heart and pork belly products, except all kinds of fried pork slices and shredded pork. Three steamed, three cakes and three pills in eastern Hubei. "Three Steams" steam whole fish, duck, whole egg cake, fish cake, meat pie and sheep cake;

The Spring Festival, as its name implies, is the arrival of the Spring Festival. Everything recovers in spring, and a new round of sowing and harvesting season will begin to have enough reasons to sing and dance to welcome this festival. Therefore, some New Year messages are sent. When spring comes to the door, red paper and yellow letters are pasted in front of the door to express good wishes for the New Year. Things with the same meaning really come, such as hanging red lanterns and pasting the word "Fu" on the god of wealth, and the word "Fu" must be pasted backwards. The thinking of passers-by, "bad fortune" and "good fortune" are also needed.

In addition, the name of the Spring Festival is "Chinese New Year". What is this? Animals bring people bad luck. Trees wither in "Year" and grass does not grow in "Year". Everything grows and flowers are everywhere. How to spend the year? It is necessary to use firecrackers, so 1993 has the custom of setting off firecrackers. The Beijing Municipal People's Government has promulgated a law prohibiting the setting off of fireworks and firecrackers, so this is a custom history of several years.

The Spring Festival is a reunion festival, which is very similar to Christmas in the West. Running away from home for a long time, before returning to my parents' home, the real New Year's Eve was called reunion night. The whole family sat together to wrap jiaozi, the first jiaozi and noodles, and the word "harmony" wrapped jiaozi and ate jiaozi together. The homonym of "diplomacy" and "diplomacy" welcomed jiaozi's reunion.