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Jiangxi New Year's folklore, to have to do the process and meaning of this thing, preferably their own experience. The best way to do this is to have the process and meaning of doing it, preferably through your own experience. Thank you. 1, posting Spring Festival couplets: Spring Festival couplets, also known as door to door, spring stickers, couplets, couplets, peach runes, etc., it 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, whether urban or rural, every family has to select a large red spring couplets posted on the door, for the festival to increase the festive atmosphere. This custom began in the Song Dynasty, began to flourish in the Ming Dynasty, to the Qing Dynasty, the Spring Festival couplets of ideology and artistry have greatly improved, Liang Zhangrui prepared the Spring Festival couplets monograph "Threshold Lian series of words" on the origins of the couplets and various types of works of the characteristics of the discourse.

The types of spring couplets are more, according to its use of the place, can be divided into the door heart, frame pair, horizontal cape, spring strips, doufang and so on. "Door" in the upper center of the door panel; "frame" on the left and right door frame; "Phi" on the horizontal wood of the door winks; "Chunzhi "according to different contents, posted in the corresponding place;" bucket catty "also known as" door leaf ", for the square diamond-shaped, posted in the furniture, shadow wall.

2, sticker window and upside down "Fu" word: In folklore, people also like to stick a variety of paper cuttings on the window - window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive atmosphere, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper cutting in China is a very popular folk art, for thousands of years by the people's favorite, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so it is also known as "window flowers". Window decoration with its unique generalization and exaggeration of the auspicious events, good wishes expressed to the fullest, will be decorated with festivals red hot and rich.

At the same time in the paste Spring Festival couplets, some people in the house door, wall, lintel pasted on the large and small "Fu" character. The Spring Festival sticker "Fu" word, is China's folk custom from a long time. The character "福" refers to good fortune and good luck, and it expresses people's desire for a happy life and their wish for a better future. In order to more fully reflect this yearning and wishes, some people simply stick the word "Fu" upside down, indicating that "happiness has arrived" and "good fortune has arrived". Folk will also be "Fu" word fine as a variety of patterns, patterns have the star, longevity, carp jump Dragon Gate, the five valleys, the dragon and phoenix, and so on.

3, New Year's paintings: the Spring Festival hanging stickers New Year's paintings in urban and rural areas is also very common, thick black colorful New Year's paintings to thousands of families added a lot of prosperity and joy of the festive atmosphere. New Year's paintings are an ancient folk art in China, reflecting the people's simple customs and beliefs, and holding their hopes for the future. New Year's paintings, like spring scrolls, originated as "door gods". With the rise of woodblock printing, the content of the New Year's paintings has not only limited to monotonous themes such as the God of the Door, become colorful, in some of the New Year's paintings in the workshop produced the "Three Stars of Fortune and Longevity," "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings," "Five Grains and a Plentiful Harvest," "Six Animals Prosperity," "Welcoming the Spring to receive the blessings of" and other classic colorful New Year's paintings, in order to satisfy people's joyful prayers for the New Year's good wishes. There are three important production areas of Chinese New Year paintings in China: Taohuayu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; forming three major schools of Chinese New Year paintings, each with its own characteristics.

China's collection of the earliest Chinese New Year paintings is the Southern Song Dynasty "with the fair presenting the face of the country" woodcut New Year paintings, the painting is Wang Zhaojun, Zhao Feiyan, Ban Ji and green beads of the four ancient beauties. The most widely circulated folk painting is the one of "The Mouse Marrying Her Marriage". It depicts an interesting scene of a mouse marrying a bride in accordance with the customs of the earth. In the early years of the Republic of China, Zheng Mantuo of Shanghai combined the lunar calendar and New Year's paintings. This is a new form of New Year's paintings. This combination of two and one of the New Year's paintings, later developed into a wall calendar, and is still popular throughout the country.

4, the New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve is one of the most important New Year's activities, the custom of the New Year's Eve has a long history. The earliest record is found in the Western Jin Dynasty Zhou Zhi's "Land and Customs": New Year's Eve, each with the gift, known as "feed the year"; wine and food invited, known as "don't year"; young and old get together to drink, wishing complete, known as the "sub year"; everyone all night long to keep watch. "

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"One night even double the year, five more divided into two days", New Year's Eve night, the whole family gathered together, ate the New Year's Eve dinner, lit candles or oil lamps, sitting around the stove chatting, waiting for the old and welcome the new moment, all-night vigil, symbolizing all the evil plagues and epidemics, according to the run away, and look forward to a new year of good luck and good fortune. This custom gradually prevailed, to the early Tang Dynasty, Tang Taizong Li Shimin wrote a "year-keeping" poem: "cold resignation from the winter snow, the warmth of the spring wind". Until today, people are still accustomed to the New Year's Eve to welcome the new year.

Anciently, there are two meanings of year-end vigil: the elderly year-end vigil for the "resignation of the old year", there is the meaning of the treasure of time and light; young people year-end vigil is to extend the life of their parents. Since the Han Dynasty, the time of the transition between the old and new year is usually the middle of the night.

5, firecrackers: Chinese folk "open door firecrackers" said. That is, the arrival of the new year, families open the door of the first thing is to set off firecrackers, to beep, bla bla bla firecrackers in addition to 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. Firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, is a kind of festival entertainment, can bring people joy and good luck. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers is more and more widely used, varieties and colors are also increasingly numerous, every major holiday and festivals, and marriage, building, opening, etc., are to set off firecrackers in order to show the celebration, figure a good luck. Now, Hunan Liuyang, Guangdong Foshan and Dongyao, Jiangxi Yichun and Pingxiang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other areas is China's famous hometown of firecrackers, the production of firecrackers colorful, high-quality, not only sells well across the country, but also exported to the world.

6, New Year's Day: the first day of the New Year, people are up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dressed neatly, go out to visit friends and relatives, pay their respects, wishing good luck in the coming year. Worship a variety of ways, some of them are the same clan leader led a number of people to go door to door to pay tribute to the New Year; there are colleagues invited a few people to pay tribute to the New Year; there are also get together to congratulate each other, known as the "group worship". Because of the time-consuming and laborious door-to-door New Year's greetings, some of the upper-class people and the scholarly community used the stickers to congratulate each other, which developed into the later "New Year's card".

When the Spring Festival to pay homage to the New Year, the younger generation should first pay homage to the elders, wishing the elders a long life and well-being, the elders can be prepared beforehand the New Year's Eve money to the elders, it is said that the New Year's Eve money can be pressed to the evil spirits, because the "age" and the "spirit" harmonic, the elders get the New Year's Eve money can be a year of peace and security. It is said that New Year's money can keep evil spirits at bay, because "year" and "spirit" sound alike. There are two kinds of New Year's money, one is a colorful rope threaded and braided into the shape of a dragon, placed at the foot of the bed, which is recorded in the "Yanjing Yearly Record"; the other is the most common, that is, wrapped in red paper by the parents of the money given to the children. New Year's money can be rewarded in the evening after the New Year's greetings in public, can also be in the New Year's Eve when the child is asleep, by the parents secretly placed under the child's pillow. Now the elders for the younger generation to send the custom of New Year's money is still prevalent.

7, the Spring Festival food customs: in the ancient agricultural society, about since the eighth of Lunar New Year, housewives will be busy opening the New Year's food. Because of the long time needed to pickle the preserved meat, so it must be prepared as early as possible, many provinces in China have the custom of pickling preserved meat, which is most famous in Guangdong Province's preserved meat. Steamed rice cakes, rice cakes because of the harmonic "year high", coupled with a variety of flavors, almost become a must-have seasonal food.

The night before the real New Year is called the Night of Reunion, when people who are away from home have to travel thousands of miles to come back home, and the whole family has to sit together to make dumplings for the New Year. The dumpling method is to make dumpling skin with flour first, and then use the skin to wrap the stuffing, and the stuffing is various, with various kinds of meat, eggs, seafood, and seasonal vegetables being put into the stuffing, etc. The orthodox way of eating dumplings is to boil it in clear water, and then fish it up to be accompanied by soy sauce with vinegar, garlic, and sesame oil. The orthodox way of eating dumplings is to boil them in water and then dip them in soy sauce flavored with vinegar, garlic, and sesame oil. Dumplings can also be deep-fried and cooked (potstickers). This is because the word "he" (和) means "to merge" (合), and the words "饺子" (饺子) and "交" (交), which mean "to merge" and "to merge" (合), harmonize with each other. The words "合" and "交" have the meaning of getting together, so dumplings are used to symbolize reunion and happiness; they are also taken as the meaning of a new year's handover, which is very auspicious; in addition, dumplings resemble a Yuanbao (元宝), so eating dumplings on New Year's Day carries the auspicious meaning of "inviting wealth and prosperity" (招财進宝). In addition, eating dumplings on New Year's Day also carries the auspicious meaning of "inviting wealth and prosperity". Families get together to make dumplings, talk about the New Year, and have a good time.