Rongchang's Spring Festival custom

Spring Festival is an ancient festival in China, and it is also the most important festival to celebrate this festival. How to live in thousands of years of historical development has formed many fixed customs and habits all year round, and there are also many legends.

sweep the dust

24, dust sweeping the house "Lv Chunqiu" records, in the Spring Festival of the Yao and Shun era, China customized scanning dust. The folk say that "dust" is homophonic with "Chen", and "sweeping dust in the New Year" has the meaning of "old is not new". Its original intention is to sweep all bad luck and bad luck out of the house. This custom is to place new channels and wishes for New Year prayers. During the Spring Festival, every household should clean the environment, clean all kinds of electrical appliances, tear down and wash bedding curtains, sweep the courtyard, dust the net, dredge the river and drain underground. Everywhere is filled with joy, engage in hygiene and cleaning to welcome the joy of spring.

New year's day spring festival

Lucky money, the elders want to prepare the money for the New Year for the younger generation in advance. It is said that lucky money inhibits evil spirits, and the homonym of "nian" and "unforgettable" can make the younger generation get some money and spend the first year safely. There are two lucky money, with lines and colored ropes woven in dragon shape, and the foot bed records the discovery of "Yanjing's old mentality". The other is the most common one, wrapped in red paper and given to parents and children. You can give lucky money to the younger generation during the Chinese New Year, but on New Year's Eve, when the child is sleeping, parents are also found stealing the child's pillow.

People give children lucky money. When evil spirits hurt their children, children can use the money to bribe them for good luck. Uman Yunqing's poem "New Year's Money" says: "One hundred yuan wears colored thread, and the pillow talks about firecrackers from the assembly point and the flute price, adding a charm to the busy night." From this point of view, the dolphins headed by lucky money are innocent, and children's lucky money is used to buy firecrackers, toys and candy and other holiday supplies.

The elders share some money, because the customs of the younger generation are still popular, and the lucky money ranges from dozens to hundreds. These lucky money are used to buy books and school supplies for children, which is a new fashion lucky money.

Couplets written on scrolls and hung on pillars in the hall

The couplets call the door, and the Spring Festival couplets depict the background of the Spring Festival and express good wishes with neat, dual, concise and exquisite words, which is our unique literary form. During the Spring Festival, whether in urban or rural areas, families should choose to stick red couplets on their doors to increase the festive atmosphere. From the customs of Song Dynasty to the popularity of Ming and Qing Dynasties, the ideological and artistic quality of Spring Festival couplets have been greatly improved. Liang Yike devoted himself to the study of threshold couplets, and discussed the source and characteristics of various works.

The types of couplets can be divided into door frame and spring leaf according to their local uses. The door core is connected to the central part of the upper end of the door and the door frames on the left and right sides of the door; The cross-dividing strip is fixed in the frame, and then the "spring" is stuck in the appropriate place depending on the content; "Dou Jin" is also called "door leaf and square drill", which is mostly attached to furniture and screen walls.

Stick the window grilles and the word "fu" upside down.

People like paper-cutting-the window grilles are stuck on the windows. Window grilles not only set off the festive atmosphere, but also integrate decoration, appreciation and practicality. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, which has been deeply loved by people for thousands of years, mainly because it is connected with windows, also called "window grilles". Grille, with its unique generalization and exaggerated guitar mascot, shows the best wishes incisively and vividly, and the festival decoration is rich and prosperous.

While putting up Spring Festival couplets, people in some rooms put large and small "Fu" characters on doors, walls and lintels. It is a long-standing custom of China people to paste the word "Fu" during the Spring Festival. The word "Fu" refers to good luck, the yearning for a happy life for those who hold blessings, and the desire to create a better future. In order to fully reflect this desire and good wishes, some people simply put the word "fu" upside down, beaming with "good luck", and there are various designs made of the word "fu", such as birthday, peach, carp jumping on the dragon gate, bumper harvest of crops, good luck of dragons and phoenixes, etc.

It is also common to hang New Year's Day and Spring Festival. In urban and rural areas, a prosperous and joyful festive atmosphere and a colorful New Year have increased many families. New Year pictures are an ancient folk art, which reflects people's simple customs and beliefs and places their hopes on the future. Spring Festival couplets originated from "goalkeepers". With the rise of woodblock New Year pictures, it is not limited to monotonous themes and diverse door images. In some painting workshops, people's good wishes for happiness are satisfied with "three-line drawing of Fu Lu's hand", "God bless the people", "eating for the benefit of the people" and "six animals are thriving, and the Spring Festival is a classic colorful New Year". China experienced three important origins of the New Year: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong, forming three schools of China New Year with their own characteristics.

At present, the earliest collection of New Year pictures in China is the woodcut work of the Southern Song Dynasty, which depicts four beautiful ancient landscapes of Wang Zhaojun, Zhao, Ban Ji and Lvzhu. The most popular among the people is the New Year's Day when mice get married. The interesting scene depicts the mouse marrying the bride according to the custom of the earth. * * * In the first few years in China, Zheng's calendar in Shanghai was combined with the New Year. This is a new form of the New Year. This combination of the two New Years later developed into a calendar, which has been popular all over the country.

Celebrate New Year's Eve

Going to bed late on New Year's Eve is the most important custom in the Spring Festival. The earliest record was found in the Local Records of the Western Jin Dynasty: New Year's Eve, the proposed period, named "Hey, this year, old"; From the nearby food and wine, it is called "doing old; Old and young people get together to drink and toast, which is called how old they are and stay up until dawn, saying, "Celebrate New Year's Eve.

"At two o'clock in the morning on New Year's Eve, the whole family get together, have dinner, light candles or oil lamps, sit around the fire and chat, wait for the New Year's vigil, stay away from all the symbols of evil plague racers and look forward to good luck in the new year. This custom gradually gained the upper hand until the early Tang Dynasty, when Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem to celebrate New Year's Eve: "Say goodbye to the snow in the cold winter and warm spring. To this day, it can also be used to celebrate the New Year's Eve welcome.

Celebrating New Year's Eve in ancient times has two meanings: the elderly celebrate New Year's Eve, bid farewell to the old year and cherish the time; Young people celebrate the New Year, the meaning of parents' life. Since the Han Dynasty, the time when the old year and the new year alternate is usually midnight.

firecracker

The folk saying of setting off firecrackers in China. When the new year comes, the first thing for every household to open the door is to set off firecrackers, something old and something new. Firecracker is a specialty of China, also known as "Firecracker", "Firecracker" and "Firecracker". Its origin is very early, and it has a history of more than two thousand years. Setting off firecrackers can create a festive and lively atmosphere, and it is an entertaining holiday activity that can bring joy and good luck to people. With the passage of time, the application of firecrackers has become more and more extensive, and it has become more diversified in many colors. Every major festival and wedding celebration, marriage, residential and commercial development, firecrackers must be set off to celebrate good luck. At present, Liuyang, Yichun, Dongyao, Foshan, Pingxiang, Wenzhou, Zhejiang and other regions in Hunan are famous producing areas of fireworks and firecrackers, with high quality, which are not only sold well all over the country, but also exported to all parts of the world.

New Year

On the first day of the new year, people get up early, put on the most beautiful clothes, dress neatly, go out to visit relatives and friends, and wish each other good luck in the coming year. There are many ways to celebrate the New Year. Some New Year leaders led a group of couriers to their homes, and several people paid New Year greetings to some colleagues nearby. Everyone congratulates each other together. This is called "gathering". Because it was laborious to enter the door during the New Year, later some elites and literati would throw money at each other with paste, and the company developed the "New Year Card".

New Year Spring Festival, the first New Year greetings from young people to their elders, wishing them a long and happy life. Old people can prepare lucky money for the younger generation in advance. It is said that lucky money inhibits evil spirits, because "old" and "unforgettable" are homophonic, and the younger generation can get some money to spend in the year of peace. Some old lucky money is 2 1, which is in the shape of a dragon woven with colored strings. It is found at the foot to be "Yanjing Times". Lucky money can be rewarded to the public when the younger generation celebrate the New Year, but it is also on New Year's Eve in bed, secretly giving parents pillows to their children. The custom of young elders handing out some money is still prevalent.

An important activity of the Spring Festival is to make new friends. Friends' homes and neighbors celebrate the New Year, which used to be called the New Year. China Han Chinese New Year was very popular in Han Dynasty, Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty. Some people don't go in person, you can send congratulations with famous cards. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was called "thorn" and business card, also known as the name of thorn. In the Ming Dynasty, many people put up a red paper bag at the door to collect business cards, which was called "door book".

The forms of folk New Year greetings can be roughly divided into four categories according to their social relations:

On the first day of the law, fathers who visit relatives should bring gifts. The first Buddha, ancestor statue and memorial tablet in the gate kowtowed three times, then bowed down to the elders and turned around. You can stay for dinner and play.

Courtesy visits, colleagues, friends, New Year greetings, entering the house, only kowtowing to the Buddha. Contemporaries and masters only need to hand over Yi Yi. Only when you are older than yourself should you take the initiative to bow down. The host should be as humble as an arm, even if the seat is empty. This situation is generally not suitable for sedentary. These two greetings are polite. We should say goodbye. When God prays, he should visit the shrine another day.

Thank you for your visit. In the past year, due to people's situation (such as lawyers, doctors, etc. Who needs to buy some presents for the New Year's machine, they express their gratitude.

The fourth visit stopped. Nearby, Suri has a small exchange meeting, and they can talk about language. When they first met in the yard last year, they said "Congratulations on getting rich" and "A successful one is more successful". Living in a small house is a bit too polite.

Visiting elders in ancient New Year and China Lunar New Year; It is the same generation who congratulate each other in China New Year. Now, some organizations, enterprises and schools get together to congratulate each other, which is called a "party".

The folk tradition of China New Year is that it is the Spring Festival, which is a good way to express and wish each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the old people was "Happy New Year" in Baihe New Year, including the old people who kowtowed, were beaming, happy New Year and welcomed life. Great events of peers and friends, but also salute and congratulate.

Neighbors and friends in the ancient fire square in Tang Dynasty are also difficult to visit, so they send their servants' business cards to pay a New Year call, which is called "Flying". Stick a red paper bag in front of you every time, which says "good luck", that is, accept flying cards. This custom began in the upper class of the Song Dynasty. A month later, the film flew away. "Fashion. Special door books should remember the communication between guests and virtual relatives of the door book author: First, the old man in ballantine has a rich family and lives in a century-old lane; Say more classic live Yuanbao Street; Lord Yannuo, on-site scholar memorial archway; On the fifth floor, 1 tells a classic scene of Fu. Geely plans to discuss mouth color. As China's New Year gifts, New Year greeting cards, greeting cards, and, is this ancient heritage sent to every flight post. BR p> The upper class gentlemen have the custom of greeting each other with famous cards. Song said in Qingbo magazine: "In the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the celebration of the New Year was often used as the representative holder of the stabbing death of domestic servants. "It takes time and effort for a scholar to make friends. Some of them have few close friends, so they don't go in person. Instead, they sent his servant to cut plum blossom paper two inches wide and two inches long and write a card to represent his name, address and congratulations. In the Ming Dynasty, it replaced New Year greetings. An outstanding painter and poet in the Ming Dynasty wrote a poem in the Spring Festival: "If the leaves don't meet, the famous paper will shield Lu;" "To cast paper, the world hate Jane to take virtual. The famous thorn and the famous leaf said, "This is the origin of modern greeting cards. Greeting cards are convenient and practical, and they are still very popular today.

About the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the New Year added a form of "gathering". The owner of Tsing Yi Lan said: "The capital at the beginning of the year, related routine parties, years of friendship, and the nostalgia of London", "Red sets off the book value per share of the New Year and the joy of eating wedding wine."

With the development of the times, new contents and forms are constantly added to the customs of the New Year. Now, according to the previous New Year greetings, the etiquette of telegraphic New Year greetings and mobile phone New Year greetings has also emerged.

However, from the first day of the first month to the fifth day of the first month, most families do not receive women, only "taboos". Men go out for the Spring Festival, and women can't visit until June. New Year's activities have been going on for a long time. The New Year greetings in the Lantern Festival Evening NewsNo. 15 are called "People who worship the first day of the New Year's Day, and after July 10th, they are called" Because of the Lantern Festival, they decided not to eat cold food after New Year's Day ".

If the rule does not salute to fill the line in the future, for any reason, "worship aging"