There are lanterns on the first day of the first lunar month. What other customs are there on the first day of the new year?
Every festival, there are many customs, and it is precisely because of these customs, So the festival becomes more meaningful.The first day of the first lunar month is our important traditional festival, the Spring Festival, so what is the custom of making lanterns during the Spring Festival, and what are the particularities, let’s go and find out together.
Festival lanterns are a custom of the Lantern Festival
Festival lanterns, a traditional folk dance spread in Yingde City, Qingyuan City, Guangdong Province, is one of the second batch of intangible cultural heritage in Guangdong Province.Making lanterns is a traditional festival custom of the Lantern Festival, which began in the Western Han Dynasty and flourished in the Sui and Tang Dynasties.After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the style of lighting in the past dynasties prevailed and was passed on to later generations.
What are the customs on the first day of the first lunar month
Cut window grilles
Cutting and cutting window grilles is one of many New Year customs.The content of window grilles includes anecdotes of various animals and plants, such as magpies climbing plums, swallows wearing peach willows, peacocks playing peonies, lions rolling hydrangeas, three goats (yang) Kaitai, two dragons playing pearls, deer cranes and chrysanthemums (six contract springs).), five bats (blessings) holding longevity, rhinoceros looking at the moon, lotus (even) year with fish (yu), mandarin ducks playing in the water, bangs playing with golden cicadas, two immortals in harmony, etc.There are many patterns and pleasing appearances, which decorate the festival beautifully.beaming.
Write Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets are also called "spring stickers" and "door pairs".It depicts a beautiful image with neat, concise and exquisite words.During the Spring Festival, every household, no matter in the city or in the countryside, selects a pair of red Spring Festival couplets and pastes them on the door to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, so as to increase the festive atmosphere of the festival.For thousands of years, from brush writing to color paper printing, the form of Spring Festival couplets has continued to evolve.However, all changes remain the same, and the taste of the New Year is always treasured in the bones of Chinese people.
Sweep the dust
Cleaning before the Spring Festival is a traditional custom in China, and it is also a way to remove bad luck and welcome happiness.On the dust-sweeping day, the whole family will work together to clean the house and courtyard, scrub pots and bowls, remove and wash bedding, and welcome the New Year cleanly.According to ancient records, there was a habit of cleaning at the end of the year in ancient times, and people used the homonym of "dust" and "chen" to express their desire to remove the old and the old.
New Year’s money
In the old days, after sacrificing the ancestors and holding the ceremonies to welcome the gods, the whole family had to "say goodbye to the New Year" together."Lucky money", the meaning of "lucky money" is "blessing for the new year", which expresses the good wishes of the elders for the growth of children, and hopes that they will grow up healthily.
Ancestor Worship
Worshiping ancestors during the Chinese New Year is not only mourning for ancestors, but also praying for ancestors to bless the safety of the coming year.Worshiping ancestors is one of the oldest contents of Spring Festival customs."Shangshu Shundian" records:"On the first day of the month, Shun is better than Wen Zu."
Ancestor worship is usually on New Year’s Eve.After sweeping the house, cleaning the courtyard, changing the door gods, changing peach charms, and pasting Spring Festival couplets, the people or the whole family go to worship the ancestors, or hang the portraits of the ancestors on the main wall of the central hall., place sacrifices and light joss sticks for the younger generations to worship.
Shou Sui on New Year’s Eve
"Acquaintances and relatives are invited to have a group New Year’s wine, and children compete for the New Year’s money together.The sound of firecrackers is still alive, and the car and horses in Tianqu are like smoke." And the scene of celebrating New Year’s Eve in the streets and alleys.New Year’s Eve was called "Chu Nuo", "Da Chu" and "Da Jin" in ancient times, and old Beijingers called it "Sui Chu", "Chu Sui" and "New Year’s Eve", commonly known as "New Year’s Eve".The original meaning of the word "Chu" is "to go", which is extended to "Yi", which means to replace the old with the new; the original meaning of the word "Xi" is "Sunset", which is extended to "Night"."New Year’s Eve" means that the old year will be removed on this eve, and the new year will be replaced tomorrow.
Shou Sui, for the elderly, has a sense of the passing of time and the meaning of cherishing the years.For teenagers, there is a sense of new shoots growing up and a sense of hard work and forge ahead.Shou Sui embodies the beautiful vision of family reunion, family reunion, seeing off the old and welcoming the new.
New Year’s Eve Dinner
The video "The Changes of the New Year’s Eve Dinner" vividly shows the changes of the Chinese New Year’s Eve dinner in the past 40 years of reform and opening up, from satisfying food and clothing to rich and delicious, and then pursuing nutrition and health, reflecting the improvement of people’s living standards.The New Year’s Eve dinner is the "longest" meal that Chinese people eat throughout the year, and it is also the most important family banquet for Chinese people.In the 1960s and 1970s, due to the lack of supplies, the food was "clean and white", and the New Year’s Eve dinner was the most sumptuous meal of the year.In the 1980s, meat, eggs, poultry, etc.became more and more abundant.In the nineties, the cuisine became more varied.Entering the 21st century, Western style, farmhouse music, table sharing...The way to eat New Year’s Eve dinner is constantly being refurbished.
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