What are the customs of New Year's Day in China?

New Year's Day, namely 1 on the Gregorian calendar, is commonly known as "Chinese New Year" in most countries in the world. Yuan means "start", and the beginning of each number is called "yuan"; Dan means "day"; New Year's Day means "the first day". "New Year's Day" usually refers to the first day of the first month in the calendar.

? Customs of New Year's Day:?

? First, drink pepper and cypress wine.

It has appeared in the four-person monthly order of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Pepper is Chinese prickly ash. The ancients said that pepper is the essence of jade star, with fragrant smell, which makes people light and anti-aging. Cypress is a cypress leaf, which is regarded as an elixir by the ancients and can avoid all diseases. Zanthoxylum bungeanum and cypress can be soaked in wine separately, or they can be put into wine together for drinking. Drinking pepper and cypress wine can cure diseases and prolong life.

Yu Xin in the Southern Dynasties wrote "Zheng Dan Monti Wine": "Zheng Dan will brew evil wine, and the new year will bring you a long life cup. The cypress leaves come with the inscription, and the pepper flowers come one by one. " It depicts the joy of being rewarded with pepper and cypress wine on New Year's Day. In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Pingyi's poem "Dedicating Bones to Yuan Guan" expressed his wish to serve the emperor for a long and healthy life with the phrase "I wish to live a long life with cypress leaves".

Drinking pepper and cypress wine has spread among the people so far, and it has been practiced in Licheng, Shandong Province and Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province in the Ming Dynasty.

? Second, post Spring Festival couplets.

Spring Festival couplets, also known as "spring stickers", "door pairs" and "couplets", are one of the red festive elements "Year Red" posted during the New Year. It depicts a beautiful image and expresses good wishes with neat, concise and exquisite words. It is a unique literary form in China and an important custom for Chinese New Year in China. When people put up Spring Festival couplets (Spring Festival couplets, blessings, window grilles, etc. ) At their doorstep, it means that the Spring Festival officially kicked off. ? Each pair of couplets has a horizontal cross and the word "Fu", while the Spring Festival couplets are simply pasted on appropriate places, such as doorposts, like "All the best".

In fact, Spring Festival couplets (including couplets and Spring Festival couplets) were written by special people in ancient times (with a brush), so they are commonly known as "swinging spring". Every Spring Festival, no matter in urban or rural areas, every household should take off beautiful red couplets and stick them on the doors to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, thus increasing the festive atmosphere. Another source of Spring Festival couplets is spring stickers. The ancients posted the word "Yichun" more and more at the beginning of spring, and then it gradually developed into Spring Festival couplets, expressing the good wishes of the working people in China to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters and welcome good luck.

? Third, set off firecrackers.

Setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day has two meanings:

One of the words:

Setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day has a long history. It was originally used to drive away evil spirits and ghosts. According to traditional folklore, it is said that firecrackers are set off on New Year's Day to drive away "mandrills". Mandrill was a fierce one-horned ghost in ancient times, but it was most afraid of noise, so people used the explosion of burning bamboo to scare it away. With gunpowder, people put gunpowder into bamboo tubes to make firecrackers, and then make paper tubes, also known as firecrackers or firecrackers.

The second statement:

In ancient times, New Year's Day was the first day of New Year's Day. In the Republic of China, New Year's Day became 1 of the solar calendar, while New Year's Day was called the Spring Festival. Setting off firecrackers on New Year's Day can create a festive atmosphere. Red after setting off firecrackers everywhere represents joy, happiness and auspiciousness. Therefore, in this festive festival, we will set off firecrackers to celebrate.

In China, there are many customs like New Year's Day. The arrival of New Year's Day indicates that the old year is about to pass and the new year is about to begin. The beginning of the new year's spring back to the earth, the beginning of the new year's glory, is the beginning of showing your new side. The atmosphere of New Year's Day will make the whole country excited. I also wish you all the best in the new year.