What is the traditional culture of Chinese New Year's Day?

Chinese New Year's Day Traditions

More than 4,000 years ago, Yao, the leader of the "tribal alliance", was a diligent ruler of the people and was loved by the people for his virtues and talents, but because of his son's failure to achieve the goal, he passed on the position of the leader to Shun. Shun, in memory of Yao's high moral character, led the alliance to sacrifice to heaven and earth and Yao. Since both Shun and Yao were equally loved by the people, the day when Shun sacrificed Yao and heaven and earth was regarded as the beginning of the year, and this is the origin of "New Year's Day".

Yuan, said "the beginning", the beginning of the number is called "yuan"; Dan, said "day"; "Yuandan "means" the initial day ".

Ancient New Year's Day refers to the first day of the first month of the year, but the time of the first month of each period is not consistent. The first day of the first month of the Qin Dynasty is equivalent to the current October 1. 1912 Republic of China in order to align with the world to adopt the Western calendar, the provisions of the Gregorian calendar on January 1 for the "New Year's Day", the lunar calendar on January 1 for the "New Year". New Year's Day is called the solar year in China, and January 1 on the lunar calendar is called the Spring Festival.

Customs of New Year's Day

01 New Year's Day Customs of Eating Dumplings

Dumplings are a way of celebrating festivals in our country, and because of their resemblance to ancient Yuanbao (yuanbao), which has a beautiful meaning of good luck and wealth, dumplings are eaten on the more important festivals. Family reunion sitting around the table, eating steaming hot dumplings, although everything is very simple, but the atmosphere of the festival will be able to show this. In fact, this is also a way to get together with your family and take advantage of the holiday to spend more time with your family and friends.

02 New Year's Day customs of the group activities

Group activities refers to the party and other related activities, we have to go on stage to show their talents, not only in the crowd to show their own strengths, but also add to the festivities of the festival, and if you're a single person, then it can also increase the opportunity to meet the opposite sex. Laughter, song and dance, this is New Year's Day.

New Year's Day is so important to give each other some of the New Year's Day gift is also possible, for example, you can give your coworkers office pens, full of sweet New Year's candy and so on. If it is for your girlfriend or lover, then the gift needs to be more attentive.

New Year's Day Customs Around the World

01 New Year's Day Customs in the North

China's northern winter weather is cold, and the days are short and the nights are long. Starting from New Year's Day, the people who are idle on the farm kill pigs and slaughter sheep, sit cross-legged on the dirt bed, talk about family life, do not work, do not go out until the first month of the fifteenth to end. Because of the cold weather, the Northeast New Year's Day diet mainly to frozen products, pickles, messy stew. Like frozen dumplings, braised vermicelli with sauerkraut, pickled snow red, etc. are all necessary food on New Year's Day.

Beijing children to eat ice candy gourds on New Year's Day, symbolizing the new year red hot. Literature and customs: rice-planting songs, stilt-walking, and Northeast China's two-man show will be performed one after another at the temple fair. Tianjin window cuttings, sticking couplets, recreational activities should be overwhelmed. In Shandong, students offer incense to the statue of Confucius on New Year's Day in anticipation of the coming year.

02 New Year's Day Customs in the South

Compared to the northern New Year's Day customs of the "vulgar", the southern New Year's Day customs are inclined to "elegant". In Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the New Year's Day, the bamboo poles bundled on the grass, light a fire burning, known as the "Celebration of silkworms". Shaoxing New Year's Day will be "tea bowl tea" hospitality, some also put olives and kumquats, known as the "hold Yuanbao".

In Fujian, Min Yin "spring" and "left over" the same, New Year's Day meal to be inserted in the rice flowers made of red paper, commonly known as "spring rice". Spring rice is a symbol of "yearly surplus". In Guangdong, on New Year's Day when paying respects, elders will reward their juniors with red envelopes or mandarin oranges, which is also a symbol of good luck and surplus in the coming year.

03Taiwanese New Year's Day Customs

In the island of Taiwan, on New Year's Day, the whole family will gather around the table and put hot pots on the table. Participate in the "around the stove" people, every dish on the table to taste, but also to drink symbolically, in order to discuss the coming year red hot.

On New Year's Day, Taiwan compatriots will eat long years of vegetables. The so-called Longevity Vegetables are actually commonly known as mustard greens, which the Taiwanese believe have long leaves to symbolize a long life. Some people also add vermicelli when cooking the dish, which symbolizes a long life.

04Tibetan New Year's Day Customs

In the Tibetan New Year, every family should set up a "Choksor Cheema", on which colorful flowers made of ghee are inserted, praying for a bumper crop in the coming year. Women will make "Kasai", a pastry made of ghee, to entertain guests. New curtains are put on the windows, the beams of the house and the kitchen are dressed up with hats, and the herdsmen sing and dance around the bonfire, displaying a festive atmosphere.

A hundred miles of different winds, a thousand miles of different customs. There are many other customs on New Year's Day. The motherland of the vast territory, New Year's Day domestic customs vary from place to place. These different customs converge into *** with the gift of welcoming the new year. This is a symbol of the integration of the fifty-six nationalities of China. These customs will be the perfect combination of traditional Chinese culture, and continue to inherit, constitute the soul of the Chinese nation.