New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve refers to the night on the last day of the twelfth lunar month, which is connected with the Spring Festival (the first day of the first month). The word "except" in "New Year's Eve" is "go; Easy; "Alternating" means that New Year's Eve means "the month is poor and the old year is exhausted". People want to get rid of the old department and the old year, and the new year means the next year. This is the last night of the lunar calendar. Therefore, the activities during the period are centered on resigning the old and welcoming the new, eliminating disasters and crying for happiness.
New Year's Eve is the most unforgettable night of the year. On New Year's Eve, it's the most lively and lively. As soon as it gets dark, children or little boys have already set off firecrackers with incense, and the east is ringing and the west is ringing. The bold Fang Da firecrackers, the teenager holding his ear in one hand and sticking his head out from a distance, the other children holding their ears in both hands, waiting nervously and anxiously ... This scene can still be vividly remembered even when people are old.
There are three main activities on New Year's Eve: having a reunion dinner, offering sacrifices and observing the New Year.
New Year's Eve (reunion dinner)
New Year's Eve is extremely important for China people. On this day, people are ready to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and have a family reunion dinner. In ancient China, some prison officials even let prisoners go home to meet members for the New Year. This shows how important the "reunion dinner" was to ancient China people.
There are many kinds of New Year's Eve dinners, which are different from north and south, such as jiaozi, wonton and long noodles. And each has its own pressure.
Northerners are used to eating jiaozi during the Spring Festival, which means "making friends when you are young". And because jiaozi with white flour looks like an ingot, the pots and pans on the table symbolize the meaning of "making a fortune in the New Year, and the ingot is rolling in". When some people buy jiaozi, they will also pack some coins sterilized by boiling water, saying that whoever eats first can earn more money. The custom of eating jiaozi. This was handed down from the Han Dynasty. According to legend, Dr. Zhang Zhongjing saw that the poor people were frozen rotten in the cold winter, so he prepared a kind of "cold-dispelling Joule soup" to treat frostbite for the poor. He used mutton, peppers and some herbs to cool the cold, made ear-shaped "corners" out of dough bags, cooked them in a pot and distributed them to the poor. After eating it, people feel hot all over and their ears are hot. Since then, people have followed suit and spread it to this day.
Eating wonton in the New Year is the original intention. Legend has it that the world was in a very chaotic state before it was created, and Pangu created the universe.
Long noodles, also called longevity noodles, are a wish to live longer.
stay up late or all night on New Year's Eve
In our country, people have the habit of keeping watch on New Year's Eve. The custom of observing the old age not only includes the feeling of farewell and nostalgia for the fleeting time, but also expresses the good hope for the coming New Year. Keep your age at 30, commonly known as "endure the year." Why is it called endure the year? There is an interesting story circulating among people from generation to generation: It is said that in the ancient wild times, there was a fierce monster, which people called Nian. Every New Year's Eve, Nian beast will climb out of the sea to kill people and animals, destroy the countryside and bring disaster to people who have worked hard for a year. In order to avoid the Nian beast, people close the door early on the 30th night of the twelfth lunar month, dare not sleep, and sit until dawn, drinking to kill time and courage. On the first morning of the new year, you dare not go out until the Nian beast comes out. When people saw it, they bowed to each other, congratulated each other, and were glad that they had not been eaten by Nian beast. After many years, nothing happened, and people relaxed their vigilance against Nian beast. On the evening of 30th one year, Nian beast suddenly fled to a village in the south of the Yangtze River. Almost all the villagers were eaten up by Nian beast, except the newlyweds who hung red curtains and wore red clothes. There are several childlike innocence in the yard lit a pile of bamboo to play, red. Bamboo exploded after burning. When Nian beast saw the fire, he turned around and fled. From then on, people know that Nian beast is afraid of red, light and sound. At the end of each year, every household will stick red paper, wear red robes, hang red lights, beat gongs and drums, and use bamboo to set off robes. In this way, Nian beast will not dare to come again. This is also the origin of so-called firecrackers.
Send oranges in the new year
The custom of exchanging oranges during the Spring Festival is popular in Guangdong, China, which is closely related to the culture of the Chinese nation. In the folk, people are used to writing orange characters, which are very similar to auspicious characters. In the Spring Festival, people give oranges to each other for good luck, hoping that in the new year, small oranges can become people's amulets.
paste up Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets originated in Fu Tao. "Fu Tao" is a rectangular red wooden board hanging on both sides of the door in the Zhou Dynasty. According to the Book of Etiquette in the Later Han Dynasty, the peach symbol is six inches long and three inches wide, and the words "Shen Tu" and "Lei Yu" are written on the mahogany board. "On the first day of the first month, I made a peach symbol for this family and named it Xianmu. All ghosts are afraid of it." Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's "Yanjing Shi Sui Ji" said: "Spring Festival couplets, that is, Fu Tao." In the Five Dynasties, in the court of West Shu, someone wrote couplets on peach symbols. According to the Records of the History of Song Dynasty and the Records of Shu Family, "Meng Chang, the master of the latter Shu Dynasty, ordered Zhang Xun, a bachelor, to write a mahogany board, which was regarded as a non-work" and claimed to write a poem, "Spring Festival, Changqing Festival". This is China's first Spring Festival couplets. Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were still called "Fu Tao". There is a saying in Wang Anshi's poem that "thousands of households are the narrowest, and new peaches are always replaced with old ones". In the Song Dynasty, the peach symbol was changed from mahogany board to paper, which was called "Spring Sticker". In the Ming Dynasty, Fu Tao changed its name to "Spring Festival couplets". In the Ming Dynasty, Chen wrote in Mao Yunlou's Miscellaneous Paintings: "The creation of Spring Festival couplets began with. Jinling, the imperial capital, suddenly issued a decree before New Year's Eve: Spring Festival couplets must be posted at the gates of public officials and scholars' homes. "Zhu Yuanzhang not only went out of the city incognito to see the laughter in person, but also personally wrote Spring Festival couplets. He passed a house and saw that the Spring Festival couplets had not been posted on the door. He went to ask, knowing that it was a castrated pig, and had not asked anyone to write it for him. Zhu Yuanzhang specially wrote Spring Festival couplets for the castrated pig man, which read "Split the road of life and death with both hands and cut off the root of right and wrong with one knife". Relevance and humor. After Ming Taizu's advocacy, Spring Festival couplets have since become a custom, which has been passed down to this day.
"New Year!" "New Year!" . New Year's dolls come into this world and give people their heartfelt wishes. Let people be happier in the new year! Better every year!
Look, the blue sky suddenly turned red, and the red is filled with joy. People are really happy to see it! At this time, the asphalt road seems to have become a gorgeous carpet, with flowers on both sides. Walking on it really feels like being in a fairyland, and the world suddenly becomes a paradise! People have also hung red lanterns in front of the door, rows of neat, prosperous and beautiful!
Listen, there is a "New Year's Song" in the distance. People seem to be intoxicated, not by this song, but by this fairyland on earth! The flaming sky, colorful earth, jubilant lanterns and sweet "New Year songs" are really a good scenery!
People put on new clothes and their faces are filled with happy smiles. They went door to door, wishing each other happiness.
However, on this festive day, is everyone so carefree? The New Year dolls saw that many poor people who survived the disaster had no food and drink and no new clothes like others. They still live in hunger and cold. The New Year doll shed a tear of true feelings and drifted to those poor disaster areas. In a blink of an eye, the victims also lived a beautiful life. Their faces were no longer sad and painful, but happy and comfortable. The New Year doll showed a lovely smile and left quietly.
The New Year doll presents a precious gift for the New Year, which is not only a good blessing, but also a good life for the victims. It's gone, but its blessing will remain in people's hearts forever. "Giving is always better than asking for happiness." As long as everyone gives a little love and extends a friendly hand to help those in need, then the world will be full of laughter, happiness and light everywhere!