How was the Spring Festival in the 50s and 70s?

Chinese New Year 1949: Different because of liberation

In 1949, although the people who had just been swept away by Kuomintang soldiers did not have a qualitative leap in material terms because of the liberation, their spiritual joy made them feel that this was really the New Year. "The spirit of liberation has made people overlook their material poverty, and the wish for better and better days has filled people with fond memories of this Spring Festival with its turning point.

Thirtieth night dumpling is the most important, the streets and alleys are listening to the "dong dong" sound of chopping, in fact, that year, not every family can afford to buy meat, do some of the old Beijing pigeon boxer, mung bean flour spread a cake, sprinkled with cilantro, shredded carrots, water pimple shredded, rolled up, deep-fried, and then chopped in the vegetarian cabbage stuffed with all the meat. This New Year's Eve dinner may have disappointed many children who had been waiting for a year, but the proximity of "liberation" made people feel that this was the best year they had ever had. The spiritual pleasure of the liberation has made people overlook the material deprivation.

New Year's goods: red silk ribbons for rice-planting songs

The Nationalists, who fled the country in a panic in early 1949, did not have enough money to buy new year's goods. But after all, it is New Year's Eve, firecrackers, chicken dusters, window paper are a must-buy. New Year's cake became the object for people to visit friends and relatives. The red silk ribbons of the rice-planting songs also became New Year's commodities that year, you can not buy food, do not buy wear, but welcome the People's Liberation Army can not be sloppy, the Spring Festival that year was almost replaced by the liberation of Beiping, people celebrated more for the liberation.

New Year's Eve customs: the New Year's greeting "Xinxi" was replaced by "Daxi"

According to the old rules, women were not allowed to go out from the first day to the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, but with the liberation of the country, this rule was broken. Men took off their hats and bowed, and shaking hands was not yet practiced. The phrase "Happy New Year, good times are here at last" was said over and over again.

Nianle: fireworks, rice-planting songs and live theater rehearsals

Welcoming the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to the city on the streets is the greatest joy of the year. People stepped on stilts, twisted rice-planting songs, and sang "The sky in the liberated area is a bright sky"; people spontaneously set off fireworks; and the sound of firecrackers and gongs and drums resounded all night long. Everywhere on the streets, you could see people writing and acting out their own live newspaper dramas. People watch it over and over again as if they are in a hurry, and they can't get enough of it, and they laugh at it all the time.

The Spring Festival of the 1950s: energy and joy together

New Year's dinner: a few pounds of meat for a couple of days

The Beijing Daily of Feb. 3, 1957, had an article titled "The New Year's Eve of an Ordinary Family," which vividly recorded the New Year's Eve of the ordinary people of the year: On the night of the thirtieth, I went to the home of an acquaintance to visit his family, and before I entered the house, I heard a chorus of laughter from adults and children. Adults, children a laughter ...... I asked the housewife what to eat for the festival, she said: "We bought a few pounds of meat, a chicken, a fish, plus some green vegetables, tofu, enough for our family to eat a few days of fast and furious."... ...

New Year's Goods: Old Beijing's Favorite Dim Sum

Preparing New Year's goods for the Spring Festival in the 1950s was characterized by a focus on food. So whether it was state-run retail stores and cooperatives, or public-private partnership big food stores and small stores, not only were the shelves piled high with New Year's goods, but the stores were crowded with customers. Fresh fruits, traditional pastries, southern-flavored rice cakes, dried fruits and seafood, and grilled chicken and duck were the most sought-after items at this time. Although dim sum was delicious, it was considered a "luxury item" at the time, and even on New Year's Day, each family would only buy a little bit of it.

New Year's custom: writing letters of condolence to the volunteers

People in the 1950s had a special sense of happiness. The people of the 50's had a special sense of well-being. They bought meat, clothes, parks and movies for New Year's Eve, and often talked about how they would never have dared to think this way before, and how this year was better than last year. In the period of anti-American aid to North Korea, the Spring Festival people all over the country have to write letters of condolences to the People's Volunteer Army, and the volunteer soldiers also have to write letters to the people of the motherland to congratulate the Spring Festival. 1953, a first-class war hero Wang Hai wrote in his letter to ......

Year Le: the biggest joy of temple fair

The Spring Festival of the 50's. The people of Beijing's biggest joy is the temple fair

The people of Beijing's biggest joy is the temple fair. Beijing people's greatest joy was to stroll through the factory. The traditional Spring Festival cultural market was always crowded, with the sound of firecrackers, windmills, gongs and drums on stilts and people's laughter. All factories hold cultural evenings and performances, and all kinds of folk art performances are colorful and diverse.......

The Spring Festival of the 1960s: a good time in a tight life

The Spring Festival of the 1960s was memorable because of the good time in a tight life. In the weekdays, it is difficult to see meat and vegetables, the New Year's Eve dumplings of rich and strong powder meat seems to be particularly fragrant; in the weekdays, there is no pocket money, the Spring Festival to paste a paper lantern, buy a windmill, even if it is a shopping trip to the factory not to buy anything, can make the children and adults are happy for a year. On the first day of the year, just before dawn, the commune cadres will go to the martyrs and military families at home to celebrate the New Year. The men and women of the community went from door to door to pay their respects to each other.

New Year's dinner: reunion dinner set in the communal **** canteen

The Spring Festival in the early 60's, a typical scene is: the production team's streets and alleys are cleaned up, every family put on the new Spring Festival couplets, hung up Mao ZX statue, the street hanging colorful slogans, the New Year's Eve collective canteen of the production team to prepare a sumptuous dinner. Everyone let go of the belly, desperately eat, want to be a year shortfall of oil and water, all at once to eat back. After the meal, members of the community also received a mutton filling home dumplings.

New Year's goods: to relieve the craving is the focus

Organizing the New Year's goods people crowded the street, the state-run food stores are in front of the store to support a plank in the street sales. New Year's ticket is also printed on the two festive red lanterns, two or three pounds of a large piece of meat, compared to the usual two or two and a half pounds to buy a lot of comfort. The long-distance island of scallops, Tumen's Mingtai fish, freshwater fish from Ulatqian Banner in Inner Mongolia, Bohai Bay's sea fish, every family has to buy more or less to do the main dish of the New Year's dinner.

New Year's custom: the old rituals all put aside

Many units in the second day of the New Year to organize a reunion. We sit together to open a tea party, the leaders of the initiative "to talk about science, not feudal superstition; to be thrifty and frugal, do not waste; to participate in legitimate recreational activities, do not wander around; to adhere to the production of work, do not drink before the shift" of the Spring Festival "four to four do not! "After the meeting was adjourned, you can also use a small handkerchief to wrap back some peanuts and melon seeds to the children.

New Year's Joy: Wearing New Clothes and Setting Off Firecrackers

"Wearing new clothes and setting off firecrackers" is the happiest day of the Spring Festival for children. After a year's saving of cloth tickets into red, blue corduroy or small flower cloth, even the busiest, even the clumsiest of mothers have to step on the sewing machine "clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack" late into the night. When the children woke up on the first morning of the new year, there was a new set of clothes lying neatly on their pillows. After putting on the new clothes, the children could not wait for breakfast and ran out into the yard to have fun. The left hand holds up a small piece of incense, the right hand is busy pulling out small whips from their pockets. The red half-inch long small whip is a treasure, the family **** to buy a hang 100 ring, from the first day of the year to the fifteenth, each time only to be able to put 10 out of the addiction ......

Seventies Spring Festival: Remove the shackles to feel the happiness

The opening line of the 70s was The opening line of the 70s was "usher in the great 70s with revolutionary pride", and there was also the slogan "Have a revolutionary and combat-oriented Spring Festival" which lasted until 1977. The higher-ups and "emphasize" and "demand" to have a revolutionary Spring Festival, the Spring Festival to pay close attention to the revolution, vigorously promote production, high doors and loud voices to the Lunar New Year's Day 29, eat dumplings, the first morning and then do it again. This is called the shift in customs and customs of the Spring Festival, the New Year's Eve does not stop.

New Year's Eve dinner: more and more food, no worries

The New Year's Eve dinner in the 70's showed a change from poverty to abundance, from monotony to gluttony. The theme of human consumption is "shopping", in order to eat a slightly better New Year's dinner on the people have many requirements: good health, good patience, get up early. But traditional festivals like the Spring Festival are still celebrated with great pomp and circumstance, even in the most difficult times. The resurgence of food can be seen as a sign of humanity's return.

New Year's goods: more goods and new patterns

During the Spring Festival in 1972, the watch display counter in the department store showed luminous watches and colorful dial watches produced by the Beijing Watch Factory. 1975 saw the addition of more than 100 kinds of goods such as Warda tweed, Indeed Leather, and Kaki-clothing, etc. The report on the invention of a new type of combined furniture by the Beijing Municipal Furniture Factory, which was exhibited in Zhongshan Park in 1976, was listed on the front page of the Beijing Daily. At that time, people's interaction with the harmonious, frequent expression of the strong social needs. Folk language was also enriched with ......

Nianle: a reunion

The entertainment theme of the Spring Festival throughout the first half of the 1970s was rather monotonous, and the situation changed considerably in 1977, when the atmosphere of the Spring Festival began to be vibrant, with sports performances, temple fairs, dances, poetry sessions, as well as literary evenings, concerts, and even in-house movies. There were even in-house movies. Chinese New Year performances were also enriched with more than 50 kinds of performances. Not only can you see domestic movies like "Asima", "Peach Blossom Fan" and "Li Shuangshuang", which reappeared after many years, but also the newly created drama "In Silence", and more importantly, feature films from abroad and Hong Kong, China, such as Japan's "The Chase", which can be said to be unprecedentedly open and rich.

The Spring Festival in the 1980s: Spring Festival Gala becomes a new folk custom

On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, the family wraps reunion dumplings and eats New Year's Eve dinner while watching the Spring Festival Gala broadcasted live on China Central Television (CCTV), and the stars of the movie, television, song and opera on the screen are happy to enjoy themselves with one another. ......80 In the 1980s, the people of China gradually agreed on such a unique way of celebrating the festival, which is a unique way of celebrating the festival. This is a unique way of celebrating the festival, which scholars call "new folklore". A party, not only the family gathered together, but also created a number of literary forms such as sketches ......

New Year's Eve meal: ticket faded out of the food market

As the saying goes, New Year's Eve over the mouth. People living in the 80's, the dinner table is getting richer day by day, the beginning of the rationing of varieties increased, followed by the restoration of the bazaar. Usually want to eat what, to the market to buy, so that people in turn do not know what to eat on New Year's Day.

New year's goods: the new three big fast pace

From 1984, imported color TV tension, color TV has become the people's heart of the goods in short supply. Color TV, refrigerators, washing machines, the new three big things fast pace to people. The cultural flavor of New Year's gifts is getting stronger, and postcards, New Year's cards and calendars are becoming popular.

New Year's Eve customs: words and phrases overflowing with the flavor of the times

In the 1980s, listening to people chatting on New Year's Eve, we could not hear any worries about food and clothing, no taboos and cover-ups, and it seemed that people were closer to each other, and people's topics were broader and their hearts were higher. A common "good year for you" is so rich in meaning.

New Year's music: greedy to see the evening party more

Since Zhao Zhongxiang appeared, the stove on the kettle on no one wants to go to mention, want to go to the toilet to hold back and hold back for fear of missing the Ma Ji's comedy, Fei Xiang's song, and even more afraid of missing the interspersed between the program announced the prizewinning riddles. After a lot of hard thinking and racking my brain, it was already the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, and the first thing to do was to send the answer. While waiting for the good news from CCTV, it's time to figure out where to go to the temple fair.

The Spring Festival of the 1990s: more ideas, less flavor of the year

Wrapping dumplings around the house and watching the party is old-fashioned, and the festival should be personalized and new. This makes the Beijing people over the Spring Festival also began to make things difficult: tour booked group, shopping in the supermarket to pay a large queue, bowling lanes full, want to rent a car to the suburbs around, the car has long been booked empty. Spring Festival more fun ......

New Year's Eve dinner: family feast moved to the restaurant to eat

Hard work for a year, the Spring Festival should enjoy the blessings of the mouth, families for the New Year's Eve dinner open, which is the traditional idea of the annual festival. During the Spring Festival, the most common big red paper "Spring Festival break" can not be seen. It has become fashionable to have family dinners in restaurants and hotels. Instead of a busy work at home it is better to eat a meal in the restaurant.

New Year's goods: chicken, duck, fish and meat into a supporting role

90s, the first month of the approaching days, it is difficult to see by the big bags of "food" pressure difficult to walk, usually eat sea cucumbers squid. Now must-have New Year's goods is the golden girl God of Fortune and a large Chinese character for good luck. People in the "no discharge" areas also buy one small thing: joy balls. Hundreds of millions of balls of joy are set off in the Chinese New Year to provide safety and sound and color. Mascots were also purchased, including a mouse in 1996 and a tiger in 1998.......

New Year's Customs: Physical Fitness Comes First

Sports venues opened their doors for the Spring Festival, with 64 sports activities ranging from bowling, roller-skating and badminton to indoor rock-climbing, bringing more than 100,000 people from mah-jong tables and wine bars to the city of Beijing. In the 1997 Spring Festival, 50,000 Beijingers headed for the stadiums.

Nian Le: Traveling for New Year's has become fashionable

The Spring Festival has changed from an off-season to a "golden season" for travelers, and on New Year's Eve 1992, five young people who traveled to Harbin to see the ice lanterns were in the news, as the idea of a reunion year was quietly changing. Today, it is common to offer a 50% discount on airfare for the Chinese New Year. As we enter 1999, greeting cards are becoming a backward form of greeting because they use a lot of paper, which is not conducive to environmental protection, and e-cards are quietly gaining popularity.

Entering the 21st century, reunion is still the theme of the year, under the root of the year, such as the tide of the crowd is still running to the size of the station, crowded to rush home before the New Year's Eve. The older generation of people still have a strong complex of the year, year after year to adhere to the customs of the New Year, firecrackers, Spring Festival couplets, lucky words, New Year's paintings, ancestor worship, New Year's Eve, and other year's proprietary things in their hearts is still very heavy. But, people still feel that the flavor of the year is getting fainter and fainter, year after year ...... why?