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1, the origin of the Spring Festival

(1) the Spring Festival and the concept of the year of the original meaning from agriculture, the ancient people of the grain of the annual cycle called the year, said the Department of the year of the grain is ripe also, in the Xia and Shang Dynasties produced the Xia calendar, the cycle of the moon for the month, a year is divided into twelve months, each month to the day of the moon for the first day of the first month of the first day of the month of the Zi Shi known as the first of the year, that is, the beginning of a year is also known as the year, the name of the year is from the Zhou Dynasty. The name of the year is from the Zhou Dynasty, to the Western Han Dynasty to be officially fixed, has continued to the present, the Spring Festival, one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals, is traditionally the Lunar New Year, the Spring Festival is commonly known as Nianjie, the traditional name of the "New Year", "Dainian", The traditional names for the Spring Festival are "New Year", "Dai Nian", "Tian La", "New Year", and verbally, "Dui Nian", "Celebrate the New Year", The name "New Year" is also used verbally as "Dusui", "Celebrating the New Year" and "New Year's Day".

(2) Chinese people have at least 4,000 years of history of the Spring Festival, the traditional sense of the Spring Festival in folklore refers to the Lunar New Year from the Lunar New Year's Lunar New Year Festival or Lunar New Year's twenty-third or twenty-fourth sacrificial stove, until the first month of the nineteenth day of the month of the modern people of the Spring Festival is scheduled for the first day of the first month of the Lunar New Year, but generally at least until the first month of the first month of the Lunar New Year 15 to be considered the end of the new year.

2. New Year's Customs

(1) Posting the Door God

All over China, there is a custom of posting the Door God on the New Year's Day. Initially, the door god was carved into mahogany in human form and hung next to the door, and later it was painted as a portrait of the door god and posted on the door. Legend has it that the two brothers, Shentian and Yubi, specialize in controlling ghosts, and with them guarding the gateway, evil spirits of all sizes would not dare to enter the gate to do harm. After the Tang Dynasty, there are painted Zhong Kui hometown blessing ZhenHaiShengJun Zhong Kui door god, fierce general Qin Qiong, Yuchi JingDe two like for the door god, there are also painted GuanYu, ZhangFei like for the door god. Door god like the left and right households each one, often a pair of descendants of the door god painted as a civil and a military. Door God is divided into three categories: the first category is the "gate door God", more than pasted on the car door or the whole door, about four or five feet high, about two or three feet wide. The second type is the "street door god", more small streets on the door, about two feet high, about one foot wide. These two kinds of door god is a black face and a white face of the two gods. White left and black right, white good and easy, black caracal, each hand holding a battle-axe. The third type is "house door door god", compared with the street door door god is slightly smaller limited, also is black and white two god, but also black and white two god is sitting like. House door is most often posted "unicorn send son" like, two powder and grease comb Prince crown dolls, each riding the unicorn. This kind of door god, should have been posted on the door of the newly married house, in order to take the meaning of good luck, and later also as a common street door of the New Year embellishments.

(2) posted Chunlian

Chunlian also known as "door to", "spring post", is a kind of couplets, because in the Spring Festival when posted, so the name. One of the sources of spring couplets is the peach symbol, so there is that "thousands of households pupil day, always put the new peach for the old symbols," the poem. Initially, people used peach wood to carve human figures to hang next to the door to avoid evil spirits, and later painted the image of the god of the door on the peach wood, and finally simplified it to inscribe the name of the god of the door on the direct peach wood board. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. Ancient people in the spring day more stickers "Yichun" two words, and gradually developed into spring couplets. The real popularity of spring couplets began in the Ming Dynasty, with the advocacy of Zhu Yuanzhang. According to the Qing dynasty Chen Shanggu's "hairpin cloud building miscellany" records, one year Zhu Yuanzhang preparation for the New Year, ordered every door to paste a pair of spring couplets, to show the celebration. Originally, the spring couplets were inscribed on mahogany boards, but later they were written on paper instead. The color of mahogany is red, and red has the meaning of good luck and avoiding evil, so most of the spring couplets were written on red paper. But the temple with yellow paper, keep the system (service filial piety is not full) with white, green, yellow color, the first year with white paper, the second year green paper, yellow paper in the third year, the fourth year of mourning full before resuming with red paper. Because the Manchu is still white, the Qing court spring couplets with white paper, blue wrapped in the outside, red strips set in the inside. Therefore, once the New Year's Eve, people will have long been ready to paste the Spring Festival couplets on the door.

(3) Year-keeping

Chinese people have the habit of year-keeping on New Year's Eve, which is commonly known as "staying up for the New Year". The New Year's Eve vigil begins with the New Year's Eve dinner, which should be eaten slowly, from the time of the lamp, some people have to eat late into the night. Some people have to eat until late at night, and some people can't sleep the whole night, no matter they are adults or children. According to the record of "Jing Chu Yearly Records", the custom of having New Year's Eve dinner has been practiced at least in the North and South Dynasties. The custom of keeping the New Year's Eve, both for the watery passing of the years with the feeling of farewell, but also for the coming New Year to send a good hope of the meaning.

3, New Year's greetings

(1) Where the will is, where there is success; where the heart is, where there is scenery; where the love is, where there is touched. On the occasion of the New Year, I sincerely wish a happy Chinese New Year, good health and success!

(2) The Chinese New Year is here to greet you; your body is twice as healthy, your mood is especially good; your good luck is daily, your taste is wonderful; your home is full of gold, and your wall is full of money.

(3) This is the beginning of spring, although you are at the other end, I am at this end, but still put you in mind. At this cold juncture, may my blessings warm your hands and go straight to your heart, happy spring vacation!

(4) The spring breeze is a happy horse, the rising sun shines brightly on ten thousand homes. The mountains and rivers are renewed, the earth is full of joy and spring is intentional. The weather is renewed, and the future is broad and boundless. The Spring Festival is here, I wish you a happy family reunion.

(5) Elegant people, look at the back to know; progressive people, listen to the footsteps to know; kind people, look at the smiling face to know; confident people, look at the eyes to know; auspicious people, look at you to know. Happy New Year!

(6) Let friendship be deeper in caring, let affection be warmer in holding, let heart be quieter in honesty, let life be more beautiful in simplicity, let blessings be better in greeting, and let the Spring Festival be happier in blessings!