Spring Festival Cultural Implications

1. Renewal. The biggest difference between the Spring Festival and other traditional festivals is that it is the only one that is at the renewal point of the annual time cycle. From the perspective of time, the Spring Festival is the replacement of the old year by the New Year, and this replacement has the significance of renewal, which is reflected in the fact that the New Year has a more important value and is more honored and expected. The old year, on the other hand, is the object of expulsion. Popular legends about the origins of the New Year's traditions show the attitude of the people towards the old and the new. Equally important, in the minds of the Chinese, people's behavior should be in accordance with the times, at any time, according to the change of time to adjust their own behavior, the so-called "the world at any time, at any time of the righteousness of the great is great." Therefore, when the old year to pass, the new year to come, that is, the time to be renewed, personnel should also be updated accordingly, that is, "a new year, all things are renewed." Therefore, during the New Year, people always have to clean their bodies, take off the old clothes for new clothes; people always have to clean the house, with "new peach" for the "old charm", stick on the god of the door, auspicious paintings, so that an ordinary, sometimes slightly dilapidated and decaying gateway courtyard People always eat special food, especially dumplings that harmonize with the word "jiaozi" to symbolize the renewal of time; they also go to see relatives and friends, and feast each other to renew social relationships. At this time, people also pay special attention to the first time of the New Year. For example, in the Hakka of western Fujian Province, the first day of the New Year is known as "the first day of the year", and the opening of the door is especially valued as the first event of the year. The opening of the door is mostly done by older elders and children are not allowed to intervene. Open the door according to the Tongshu, the yellow calendar on the hour or at zero to carry out, and toward the auspicious direction of the God of Heaven, said "open the door to great luck. In short, people welcome and recognize the arrival of a new time in a renewed environment, wearing brand new clothes and saying the auspicious phrase, "A prosperous new year.

2. Celebration. Celebration, is the general attitude of the people for the new life, as a newborn baby was born after the family's welcome, the family and even the family to hold a series of celebratory rituals for it, "hanging red", "wash three" and so on, in the face of a new time and the coming spring, people also have to celebrate the rituals. In the face of the new year and the upcoming spring, people also have to hold celebration ceremonies. Of course, the Chinese New Year celebration is even more important because "New Year" originally meant a good harvest. The character for "New Year" in both the oracle bone inscriptions and the gold inscriptions is "from 禾 (禾) and 人 (人)", and 禾 (禾) refers to ripened grains with their ears hanging down. When a person carries a ripe grain on his back, it means that he has a good harvest. The Shuowen explains "nian" as meaning "the ripening of grains", while the Spring and Autumn Annals of Ceres and Liang says, "When all the grains are ripe, it is said that there is nian." Since grains were the most important food crops at that time, people called the time it took for grains to ripen once a year. It was only natural for people who had worked hard for a year to celebrate when their crops had a good "year". As early as in the Book of Songs, it is written that frost begins to fall in the cold month of September, and the threshing floor is cleared in the month of October. Wine was served to the guests, lambs were slaughtered and tasted by all. We climbed up to the master's temple, and all of us raised our glasses together, wishing for a long and prosperous life. This is a very moving New Year's Eve scene!