Spring Festival handbook material content

There are many traditional festivals in China, and one of my favorites is the Spring Festival. Every Spring Festival, people are happy to put up spring couplets, beat gongs and drums, put up lanterns and colors, and the activities of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new are lively and extraordinary. This is the happiest time for children, and everyone's face is full of festive joy. The following is about the Spring Festival handbook material, welcome to read!

Spring Festival handbook material - The origin of the Spring Festival

The modern folk custom of the Spring Festival is also called the New Year. In fact, the origin of the Year and the Spring Festival is very different.

So how did the "year" actually come about? There are two main folklore: one says that in ancient times, there was a fierce beast called "year", every Lunar New Year's Eve, will be scurrying from village to village, foraging for human flesh, mutilating living beings. One night on the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, Nian arrived at a village where two shepherd boys were competing with a cow whip. The Year suddenly heard the sound of whips snapping in mid-air and fled in fear. It scurried to another village, and looked head-on to the door of a family sun a big red dress, it does not know what it is, scared and quickly turned around and fled. Later it came to a village, towards a family door to look, only to see the lights inside, stabbing it dizziness, and had to slip away with its tail between its legs. People have thus recognized the weakness of the "New Year", which is afraid of noise, red, and light, and have come up with many ways to defend themselves against it, which has gradually evolved into today's New Year's Eve customs.

Another theory is that the ancient word book of our country put the word "year" in the Ministry of Wo, to show that the wind and rain, the five cereals are plentiful. As the grain is usually cooked once a year. The "year" has been extended to the name of the year.

China's ancient folk although there has long been the custom of the New Year, but then it is not called the Spring Festival. Because then the Spring Festival, referring to the twenty-four seasons in the "spring".

The North and South Dynasties referred to the Spring Festival as the entire spring. It is said that the official name of the Lunar New Year as the Spring Festival was after the Xinhai Revolution. Because of the change to the solar calendar, in order to distinguish between the lunar and solar festivals, the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar had to be renamed "Spring Festival".

What are the customs of the Spring Festival

1, post couplets

Spring Festival couplets, also known as the door to the Spring Festival, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach symbols, etc., which is neat, couplets, concise, sophisticated text depicting the background of the times, expressing the best wishes, is China's unique form of literature. Every Spring Festival, every family will put up couplets to celebrate the arrival of the New Year. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to prevail in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of the ` ideological and artistic have improved greatly, Liang Zhangzhu written by the Spring Festival couplets dedicated to the Threshold Lian series of words "on the origin of the couplets and various types of works of the characteristics of the discourse.

2, dust sweeping

"Lunar month 24, dust sweeping house", according to the "Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals" records, China in the Yao and Shun era, there is a Spring Festival dust sweeping custom. The significance of dust sweeping is to sweep all the poor luck and bad luck out of the door, hoping to have a better life in the coming year.

4, pay tribute to the New Year

On the first day of the New Year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed up, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay tribute to each other, wishing good luck in the coming year. Spring Festival when the New Year's greetings, the younger generation should first give the elders to pay tribute to the elders, I wish the elders long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared in advance of the new year's money to the elders, it is said that the new year's money can be pressed against the evil spirits, because the "age of" and "Sneaky" harmonic, elders to get the new year's money can be safe and sound! The new year's money can be used as a means of keeping evil spirits at bay.

5, year-end

China's folk in the New Year's Eve has the habit of year-end vigil, commonly known as "boiled year". The New Year's Eve vigil begins with the New Year's Eve dinner, which is eaten slowly, from the time of the lantern, some people have to eat late into the night. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", there was a custom of having New Year's Eve dinner at least in the North and South Dynasties. The custom of the New Year's Eve, both on the water passing years with the feeling of farewell, but also on the coming of the New Year to send a good hope of the meaning.

6, eat New Year's Eve dinner

Eat New Year's Eve dinner, is the Spring Festival families the most lively and enjoyable time. New Year's Eve. Abundant New Year's dishes on the table, the whole family reunion, sitting around the table, *** eat reunion dinner, the heart of the fullness is really difficult to describe.

7, to the New Year's Eve money

To the New Year's Eve money, New Year's Eve money is sent by the elders to the younger generation, some families are after New Year's Eve dinner, everyone sitting at the table is not allowed to go, and so we all ate, sent by the elders to the elders, and encourage their children and grandchildren to learn in the new year to make progress, and to be good people.

8, ancestor worship

Ancestor worship, ancient times this ritual is very prosperous. Because of the different rituals and customs of different places, the form of ancestor worship is also different, some to the field to visit the ancestral tomb, some to the ancestral temple to worship ancestors, and most of the ancestors at home will be placed in the ancestral tablets in order in the main hall, display offerings, and then worshippers according to the order of the youngest and oldest on the incense and kneeling.

9, burning firecrackers

Firecrackers, Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, the arrival of the new year, the first thing to open the door of every household is to set off firecrackers, to beep, bla bla bla firecrackers to get rid of the old and welcome the new. Firecrackers is a Chinese specialty, also known as "firecrackers", "cannonballs", "firecrackers". Its origin is very early, so far has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and is a kind of entertainment activity during festivals, which can bring joy and good fortune to people. Wang Anshi's poem "New Year's Day" reads: "The sound of firecrackers marks the end of the year, and the spring breeze sends warmth to the people. Thousands of doors and tens of thousands of houses are tilted up, always changing the new peach for the old one." It depicts the grand festive scene of our people celebrating the Spring Festival.

Spring Festival Poetry

1. The year is dripping with lotus leaks. --Mao Pang's "Jade Tower Spring" (玉楼春-己卯年元日)

2. Last night the bucket returned to the north, and this day the year starts from the east. --Meng Haoran, "New Year's Day in a Field House"

3. The sun of the sea is still alive at night, and the spring of the river has entered the old year. --Wang Wan, "Under the Sub-Beigu Mountain"

4. It's only been seven days since the beginning of spring, but it's already been two years since I left home. --- Xue Daoheng, "The Day of the Return of a Man"

5. The candle is like silver under the wax goose flower. --Li Ciming, "Linjiang Xian - New Year's Eve in the year jiwei"

6, the matter has become empty, ten thousand miles of lovesickness in one night. --Lai Guan's "New Year's Eve"

7. The sound of firecrackers is the beginning of a new year, and the spring breeze sends warmth into the tassel. ---Qu You, "The Wine of Tu Su"

11. The fire of the birth pot is roaring with bamboo, and the bamboo pole is open to listen to the praise of peppers. --Wen Zhengming "New Year's Greetings"

14, a thousand doors and ten thousand households teeel day, always change the new peach for the old symbols. --Wang Anshi "New Year's Day"

15, the hometown tonight think of thousands of miles, frosty sideburns tomorrow and another year. --- Ouyang Xiu, "Sheng Chazi - New Year's Eve"

17, half a cup of tusu has not yet been lifted, the grass in front of the lamp to write peach symbols. --Lu You, "Snow on New Year's Eve"

18. The white hair is not full, and the fireplace in the New Year's Eve is a sleepless night. --Qian Qianyi, "The New Year's Day of Dingmao"

20. People don't sleep at the end of the night on New Year's Eve, and they are tired of sacrificing themselves to welcome the new year.

21. --Li Bai, "Spring Accompanies Envoy Pei of Shangzhou on a Tour of Shi'e Stream."

22. --Huang Jingren, "New Year's Eve in Kuisi"

23, the Jade Rabbit will be at the door, blessings everywhere. The firecrackers smile every day, and the happy events are heard all the time. ---Lulis "Good New Year"

24, Happy New Year, fireworks brilliant nine days. The golden dragon is in the jade world, six good plowing fields. The five suburbs of music. Shu and"