What's the good point of going to the secret room during the Spring Festival?
The Spring Festival is the biggest and most distinctive traditional folk festival, generally referring to New Year's Eve and the first day of the first month of this year. Also known as the Lunar New Year, commonly known as "Chinese New Year". However, in the New Year, from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month released in February last year, it reached the climax of 23 or 24 sacrificial stoves on the New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month and the first day of the first lunar month. During the Spring Festival, Han people and many ethnic minorities in our country will hold various activities to celebrate. These activities are mainly to offer sacrifices to gods and buddhas, ancestors, bid farewell to the old year and welcome the new year, and pray for a bumper harvest. Colorful activities with strong national characteristics. There are more than a dozen ethnic minorities in China, such as Han, Manchu, Mongolian, Yao, Zhuang, Baishan, Hezhe, Hani, Daur, Dong and Li, but on holidays,
The Spring Festival is the most important festival. Their own national characteristics are endless.
China Lunar New Year has different names at different times. In the pre-Qin period, Han was called Chao, Nian, Zheng Dan, Zhong, Chen Yuan, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Mongolia, Fuehrer, Chao, Tang and Song Dynasties, and Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
It may take another 20 days to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage, and the folk custom of "Spring Festival" in 2009 was approved by the State Council.
[Edit this paragraph] The origin of China New Year
The Spring Festival was called "Zheng Dan", "San", 65438+February 3 1,191,and the * * * and national education announced by Hubei military government departments were clearly called "Spring Festival" at the beginning of this new year. The first plenary session was held in China People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on September 27th. 1949. In order to further clarify that the first month of the lunar calendar is the "Spring Festival", the code name is officially listed in the "Spring Festival".
Oracle Bone Inscriptions's "nian" and "he" are half of the bottom "person". The word "Nian" was written by Oracle Bone Inscriptions and me. "the origin of Chinese characters: he bu: Xiao zhuan's" writing "has been under dozens of nests for thousands of years, and the five grains are ripe, from thousands of sounds. The word "person" in Biography was changed to "thousand", and Xu Shen said: the decoration of "thousand" is not contradictory. " "grain" is the general term for grain, and you can't make mistakes casually. The quality of wheat harvest mainly depends on the growth and harvest of "He". Now we find that the word "Wo" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, almost all knees that look heavy, is a symbol and a kind of bumper grain production. "How do you explain? In Oracle Bone Inscriptions, the word "year" is responsible. ?
In the Spring Festival, formerly known as New Year's Day, Du Taiqing of Sui Dynasty wrote in Five Candles: "The celebration of the end of the day is also a cloud. Yuan originally meant "head", and later it was extended to "beginning", because the first day of this day, the first day of spring and the first month of every day of the head are the so-called "three changes", because this day or one-year-old dynasty, dynasty, day and dynasty are the so-called "dynasty", because it is the first Shuori.
[Edit this paragraph] Spring custom
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, the folk festival of offering sacrifices to stoves is also called "Year". The proverb "Twenty-three candied melon sticks" refers to the urgent noise on the 23rd or 24th of the twelfth lunar month every year. The so-called "official, three people and four boatmen" refers to the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, which is more urgent than a private house like a houseboat.
Urgent noise has a great influence on the folk popularity in China. In almost every kitchen, the memorial tablet is the "Kitchen God", a legend of Siming District, a legend of Xiamen Bodhisattva or Zaojun Siming District. He is the chef of Jade Emperor Seal 9 in Siming District, Xiamen, and the monarch of Xiamen Furnace Palace. He is responsible for managing the kitchen fire and protecting the worship of God. Mainly distributed in the north kitchen or the east kitchen, the kitchen king niche, among the kitchen gods. There is no kitchen, only a niche statue hanging on the wall. Just draw a few statues of Kitchen God, two men and one woman. The goddess is called grandma kitchen god. In Cangzhou City, Hebei Province, near the twelfth lunar month, every household is busy from the 23rd to the evening of March 3rd1,or even late at night, which is called "Celebrating New Year's Eve". Customize grandma's kitchen king.
It is closely related to China's New Year's Eve, because on New Year's Eve a week later, Vesta and other kitchen gods came to the world, leading all the way. The gods in the sky and other gods once again called Vesta the person who stayed in the kitchen for a long time after the New Year in the sky. In order to satisfy the ceremony of God, it was called picking up the kitchen. It is usually easier to pick up the stove at the New Year's Eve ceremony: "Don't put a new stove lamp casually, even if it is on fire."
In some places, women don't make a fuss. Vesta said that a frightened woman looked like a bitch in front of a kitchen niche in Hong Kong. Men and women, they doubt the origin of the kitchen, it has a long history. Vesta is a very old folk deity in China. As early as the Xia Dynasty, he had a folk sacrifice meeting. The ancient book Confucius and Shu: Tian Li is the son of Xu, and Vulcan presents Vesta. "Student" Zhuangzi said, "Jujube buns". The phrase says: "bun and Vesta are extraordinary in wisdom and look like beautiful women." "Bao Puzi Wei" is specially used to record: "jathyapple is also a god, and Vesta is guilty." . "These records are probably shrines. Here, or the kitchen god Spark "Suiren" drills the fire; Shennong, or rather, the fire official said, "the furnace of the Yellow Emperor", and Su Ji Li said, Vesta star chapter, list, word country, different theory.
People pay attention to eating jiaozi on the Festival of Sacrificing Stove, and plan to "eat buckwheat noodles on the windward side of jiaozi". In the southeast of Shanxi, it is popular to eat fried corn. There is a folk proverb called "23, don't eat fried rice cakes". I like the bundled maltose of fried corn and freeze it into a big, crisp and sweet pot.
On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, every household should write Spring Festival couplets. Folks must pay attention to the fact that God's stickers on every door must be connected with every object in advance, and the Spring Festival couplets must be posted, which is the most comprehensive. Pay special attention to the couplets of the gods, and express admiration and blessing for the similarities of the gods in the sky: the face is as deep as the sea, the earth is as heavy as the mountain, and the earth god: the white jade of healthy soil, the gold god in the earth, the rich man of heaven and the earth god, and the divine alliance: well, you can travel all over the world and reach home in Sanjiang. Facing the granary, granary and other couplets, express my warm celebration and hope. The grain is abundant, and the six animals are prosperous. "Rice-thick oil and salt are as deep as the sea", "Cows are like tigers in the South Mountain, and horses are like dragons in the North Sea", "Pleasant goats are in their prime, and lambs are increasing every month". There are also some single associations. Every room is plastered with the couplet stone of "White Tiger Gate" published by Siemens, which reads "Happy Mixed Sky in Wang Xueyin" and the deep-rooted golden tree stickers of the hospital all over the building, so as to pay special attention to the facade of the door, or express feelings, or draw rich and interesting portraits. Dust brushes and houses
"The 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, from dust removal to house cleaning" has been customized for quite a long time. According to Tongzhi, the custom of Lunar New Year in China was swept away during the Yao and Shun periods. Folk say: "dust" and "Chen" are homophonic. "Chen Buxin means sweeping the floor and removing dust in the New Year, and its purpose is" unreachable "and" unlucky ".It is a new channel for the wishes of the custom trustee who has been swept out of the house, and it is a blessing for the New Year.
There is a record of "God" in the human body, and there are too many bodies. "The body named peng arrogance. In a public opinion survey, according to the confession of the feet of the bodies in people's stomachs, everyone's bodies were all pledged. On the day of Geng Shen, they were the whereabouts of the emperor, and God told the demons, but as long as people stayed up all night? Can be avoided, called "keeping Geng Shen"
Kitchen sugar is a kind of maltose sticky, the long-drawn sugar is called "Guandong sugar" and the oval one is called "honeydew melon". Put it outside in winter, because of the cold weather, the solid of honeydew melon is solidified, the tiny bubbles are crisp, and it has a unique flavor and taste. It's really hard. Wrestling can't be broken. I ate a kitchen knife, which is heavy and excellent. I must chop it. It tastes slightly sour, and there is absolutely no honeycomb. Each piece weighs12,22,42, which is relatively expensive. The center of melon-shaped or north melon-shaped carved with sesame, sesame and sugar is empty, and the skin thickness ranks fifth. Although the size is different, the turnover is still calculated by weight. Because the honeydew melon was bought under the guise of several people, it weighs a thousand kilograms.
Sweep the dust-a folk proverb says, "On the twentieth day of the twelfth lunar month, dust sweeps the house. The north is called cleaning the house and the south is called dust removal. Outdoor house, in front of the house? Behind the house, it is completely clean in spring.
[Edit this paragraph] China Lunar New Year holiday
Basically, the Lunar New Year is an important public holiday.
The remaining two weekends of ups and downs in Chinese mainland, and the adjacent Lunar New Year holiday, usually last until the seventh or eighth day in the afternoon of New Year's Eve before the third day of the first month. Adjust the first month two days before the 2008 Lunar New Year holiday.
On the third day of the first month, Hong Kong and Macao. If you have any first month, the day before three days is Sunday, and New Year's Eve is included in public holidays. For example, the first day of the first lunar month (February 18) in 2007 is Sunday, the eve of the New Year's public holiday.
On the third day of the first month of New Year's Eve, it falls on the sixth day or Sunday of the first month, and the fourth day (fifth day) is closed, such as Lunar New Year's Eve in 2007 (February 17), only the first day of the first month, Saturday and Sunday (February 18).
Malaysia
In the first two days of the first month holiday.
Singapore, two days ago in the first month.
Three days before the first month, Vietnam, South Korea.
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New Year's Eve is the last day of the twelfth lunar month, ending with the new ending of China-to the first day of the Lunar New Year. The word "New Year's Eve" is an easy way to alternate, meaning that New Year's Eve is "a bad month, a year's time, the best". The old unit must be newer and older than other old units. The new year is another year, and the average is the last night of the second day of New Year's Day. So the activities around the old and new departments are unfortunate, the prayer center.
During the pre-Qin period of the Zhou Dynasty, a ceremony of "Nuo" was held in the palace every year, and drums were used to drive away epidemic ghosts, which was called "In addition, the latter was also called the day before New Year's Eve, with a small exception. This is a small 30 years old, which is a good complement to the night, facing the goalkeeper this year. Zhuxian Town Woodblock New Year Pictures
Immediately whip and paste around the goalkeeper.
The custom is the China Lunar New Year, and the China New Year paste-like carved mahogany door gods are hung in the future. Later, the portrait of the janitor was painted and pasted on the door. The legendary God Tu and Thunder, two brothers specialize in ghosts and gods, the portal they master, and the harm that evil spirits dare not enter.
However, the real historical goalkeepers, instead of Shencha and Yulong, are called record-breaking ancient warriors: Ban, Guang Chuan, Wang Chuan, Wu, jacket and trousers sword. King Guang Chuan (the sick man) painted portraits of people in the ancient Tang Dynasty, and Qin replaced the main commanders with He and Weichi Gong.
A more detailed itinerary is described in "Development of the West": "Mr. Gambling Bu, the Dragon King of Jinghe, is the fruit of several plants. The responsible official appointed him as a criminal and asked Yuyao Bar for execution. King Jinghe struggled to survive and begged Taizong to allow him to cut the dragon. At this time, when they were playing chess, they didn't expect Wei's lower body to frown and send the soul of a dozing child to the sky, and the dragon king was beheaded. The Dragon King complained that Taizong was unreliable and called him out one night to discuss living outside the palace. Emperor Taizong told the minister that in general Qin, you would like to stand at the door and be in uniform. Emperor Taizong agreed. Yes, it's true. No. That night. The emperor can't bear the responsibility of the two companies to paste the hardened and skilled paintings of Dan Qing on the door. "
Draw Guan Yu and Zhang Fei as the goalkeeper. Statues at the door, to the left and right of each family, their descendants usually take the goalkeeper Wu Wenzhang. Gatekeepers can be divided into three categories: the first category is the "gatekeeper", which is about five feet wide, and the second category is the street gate gatekeeper, which is about two feet high and one foot wide. The goalkeeper is a god, a bad policeman, and it's better to hold a spear and axe in black. The third goalkeeper is a better gatekeeper than the street gate. It is a black and white god. Goalkeeper, and this should be released for the wedding, the ornament of the ordinary street gate of Geely New Year.
paste up Spring Festival couplets
Spring Festival couplets originated from the "Spring Festival" of the Lunar New Year in China, and were rectangular plates hung on both sides of red wooden doors during the Zhou Dynasty. Korean etiquette records. Said: "Spring Festival, six inches wide and three inches, with books" shentu, "and" The Condor Heroes "on the mahogany board, China is reunited with his family during the Lunar New Year, and the famous fairy wood is full of ghosts and fears. "The old man in Yanjing, built in the Qing Dynasty, said," Couplets, Spring Festival couplets.
During the Lunar New Year in China, the court of Xishu in the Five Dynasties will read "The first Spring Festival couplets in Changchun and China in the New Year's Day" according to the written words "Song Shu said: Zhang Hong's sour branches are lovely and Zhu Mengsheng, undergraduate, non-working, self-casting". Until the Song Dynasty, Spring Festival couplets were also called "Spring Festival couplets", one of Wang Anshi's poems, with a total of 65,438+00,000 days, and the old characters were always changed. In the Song Dynasty, Chinese New Year pictures used mahogany instead of paper, which was called "Spring Stickers".
In the Ming Dynasty, the Spring Festival was renamed "couplets". Chen Mingyun-Looking for Miscellaneous Stories in Zayunlou contains: "Jinling, the first imperial garden with couplets in the Ming Dynasty, suddenly ordered before New Year's Eve: Qingshimen linked the satellite to the emperor. The emperor not only personally went out of the city to watch the laughter, but also saw the couplets posted on the door after the Spring Festival couplets, and never asked personal questions. I know this is a pig, and it was not written by the questioner. The emperor specially prepared a pig's hand to crack life and death, and cut off rootless couplets with a knife. Appropriate humorous propositions and couplets learning habits have been passed down to this day.
Put up a blessing window and a New Year picture, and put a thousand.
Prayer, home decoration, folk function, New Year pictures, an ancient folk art, reflect the customs and beliefs of the broad masses of people and their hopes for the future. Drawing and pasting couplets, the words on the couplets, Yu Tu Shen Lei's name comes from the "goalkeeper". Painting is still developing in the direction of stretching. The content of the ascending woodcut New Year pictures is not limited to a door god, like the god of wealth, then the New Year seminar, Fu Lushou's three-star picture, God bless the people's "bumper harvests", "Six animals thrive, colorful pictures of the New Year, and people pray for happiness that the new year will ensure their desires are satisfied. There are three schools of China New Year Spring Festival Art Festival. Since Ming Taizu advocated posting Spring Festival couplets, the popularity of the New Year has followed in the country's New Year pictures: Taohuawu in Suzhou, Yangliuqing in Tianjin and Weifang in Shandong; Early influenced by China, Zheng Mandolin's calendar and New Year pictures were combined. This is a new painting, which combines the two into one, and later developed into a calendar that has been hung for thousands of years, engraved with auspicious red paper, and then stuck on it, 10 inch long legs, just in the form of New Year pictures. With the increase in the number of people in the Eight Immortals Spring Festival, Buddha statues hang, and thousands of people hang more aristocratic families. More than three inches of yellow paper and red paper, hanging thousands of restaurants. The first few thousand dollars (coins) were strung together with some money, which won the pressure of the system. table
At home, this is a temporary altar, a special table on New Year's Eve. Generally, temples and houses pay special attention to the world in the table, because it is usually a year's accumulation of Buddha's reward for God, and it is also the best time to end the old, except that the table is mainly for reason. The contents of tables and temples come from all over the world all the year round. Except for * * * hanging money, incense sticks and five people worshiping idols, most of them are temporary. For example, the woodcut photo of 100%, The Statue of Liberty, 18 Buddha, Heaven and Earth, is a remarkable yellow wool paper woodcut color printing with complete code; The most important thing about the portrait of God's Samsung is that it burns quickly for some reason, such as "some burn more than 5%, even the Lantern Festival". The location of heaven is not uniform, such as the main conference room, which can be placed at home. The house has no land and is placed in the hospital. Legend has it that this night, that is, the day, is the lower limit of the rational customs of God and the people. Celebrate New Year's Eve
Celebrating New Year's Eve is a folk custom in China. Commonly known as "forbearing the old." From the beginning, people have dinner to celebrate New Year's Eve. They sat down by candlelight. Some people eat dinner until late at night. Customs records fear strikes "Jingchu Chronicle", at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Celebrate New Year's Eve, every beautiful farewell to the homesickness of water, but also give beautiful Italy hope to set off firecrackers in the New Year.
Midnight pay midnight, when the New Year bell rings, firecrackers resound through the sky of Time 3 and Time all over China. Some places also "bombed" the base in the yard to show prosperity. Mixed in the burning month, the children set off firecrackers and danced happily. At this time, the room was a bright spark in front of the court, the sound outside was deafening, and the festive atmosphere on New Year's Eve reached its climax. Ancient poets always praised the most beautiful poems in the new year. Wang Anshi's poem "Mongolia";
Firecrackers warm Tu Su.
Every family is a primary school student, and the Millennium wind will always change old words into new peaches.
Describe the grand festival scene of Chinese people celebrating the Spring Festival Art Festival. Firecrackers are a sign, revealing the festive atmosphere of the New Year. Business people. In the new year, it has certain significance: firecrackers on New Year's Eve make Italy fat. However, according to Wang Caishen's old game habit, firecrackers were set off behind the house. Legend has it that in order to make a fortune, firecrackers rang for the last time to consider sincerity.
Dinner eater
Children play and set off firecrackers. When the kitchen is busiest, housewives have a sumptuous dinner ***3 1 chef cooks a few days before the Chinese New Year. Jiaozi is in the north during the Chinese New Year. On the evening of 30th, every household is busy chopping meat and vegetables. At this time, firecrackers in the street, abacus accounting and practice sound were heard from the chopping block of every household, and then mixed laughter and a pack of them were everywhere. Then there are long and full ears, interwoven into a cheerful music on New Year's Eve.
New Year's Eve, the most lively, happy New Year for every household. One night, a sincere table filled with New Year's Eve, reuniting with my family, sitting around the table and having a reunion dinner to fulfill my heart, is really hard to express in words. People fully enjoy the dishes on the table, and also enjoy the festive atmosphere. Generally speaking, the dishes, cold dishes, hot dishes and snacks on the table are the last two things. First, the hot pot and fish pot are boiling, steaming, warm and sultry, indicating that they are booming; The homonym of "fish" and "I" is a symbol of "more than good luck" and also means "more than every year" And radish, commonly known as radish. I hope my luck is very good. I wish my family prosperity, such as cooking oil, lobster, fried fish and other fried foods. Finally, candy wishes the next day to be sweet. Don't drink this day, drink a little.
There are many skills in Chinese New Year, such as North and South, jiaozi, wonton, long noodles and Yuanxiao. Northerners eat jiaozi in the New Year, which is a symbol of the new year from the old "jiaozi with a longer history" and the wealth of rolling ingots. Flour jiaozi is shaped like a silver ingot, and the basin is placed on the table. After disinfection, jiaozi boiled water and had a few coins, saying that they would be able to earn more money. The custom of eating zongzi before meals was passed down from Zhang Zhongjing in the Han Dynasty. In the cold winter, when they saw that the poor people's ears were frozen and rotten, they made "Joule soup for removing cold" to treat the poor people's frostbite. Mutton, pepper and some herbs dispel the cold and warmth, and his face has charming ears. "Bags of ears, such as pot cooking, are distributed to the poor to eat, people eat, feel warm, and their ears are hot." "Later, the example that people followed was passed down from generation to generation, and wonton was eaten in the New Year, whichever came first. The chaotic state in the legend of the previous generation, Pangu universe, long face, New Year, also known as longevity noodles, hundreds of years ago.
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Reason is the dividing line between the old year and the new year, but thoughts are not unified. At some worm ceremonies, some "children are sound" are active after midnight. Chef, temple, after midnight on New Year's Eve, ordinary people ignore the director of the world. On earth, the ceremony of honoring God is held ceremoniously and presided over for the longest time, but the nature of the lower bound is different, because the gods live in different directions. In heaven, choose a god at random, look up the "Constitution" in a book from there, and then lead their families to cite the truth and direction of Hong Kong in the yard. Xin Weinian's book was published in the communique: "The oriental mascot is the God of Wealth in the south, southwest of the Western God, southwest of the Tai Sui God and southwest of the Northeast God. The best posture in Xiangshan is to kowtow to attention, then kowtow to vetiver, statues and memorial tablets, and put money and food in a burnt bowl in the courtyard. Burning pine trees, burning sesame stems. Rational firecrackers make the atmosphere very powerful.
Evil spirits are only one step away from the soul. When people walk in front of street shops and beat their faces silently with sesame stalks, they are called "one step old" and "walking boat spirit" "At the beginning of the new year, to ward off evil spirits, you mean" broken "and" evil ".
offer sacrifices to ancestors
In ancient times, this ceremony was very popular. Orders for different forms, rituals and customs of ancestor worship, as well as the first graves of some wild Qiongzu, some ancestral shrines, mainly ancestral tablets, will be placed in the main venue, where young people will burn incense and bow down to the ancestors of the Han nationality in China to make fish bowls and serve bowls. The spread of worship by Italians in the south is particularly grand. More than half of the eight bowls of dishes, hot pot set meals, cups and chopsticks are set in the soul. Register the same clan, Manchuria and Mongolia, banner butter fried yellow rice, fried sesame oil withdrawn, dipped in sugar, or taste. Manchu flag-bearer, grandfather, walnut crisp, hibiscus crisp, apple and pure wax sandalwood are extremely quiet. Vegetarian chefs burn incense and kowtow to new tea every morning and evening on New Year's Eve and Lantern Festival. In different forms, more than half of New Year's Eve lanterns are hung in the shadows, and at night, close friends and family problems are withdrawn. In the new year, knocking on leaves and renting a penny of soup is not only a reverence for the indomitable will of our ancestors, but also a preservation of their virtues. Send the god of wealth BR/& gt;;
/kloc-at the age of 0/8, the Caimen from China, which opened at midnight in the New Year, sent the God of Wealth. The printed paper God of Wealth came in and sighed: "Send the arrival of the God of Wealth!" When the owners of the house, in order to satisfy the god of wealth, their wages are sent to the mouth of the god of wealth. Of course, there are always some good things, such as: gold and silver rolling "Golden lion around golden phoenix! So, like other color mouths, they dress up as the God of Wealth, wearing a red robe, a gauze hat, a fake beard on the corners of their mouths, carrying a yellow wallet, beating gongs and drums, distributing wealth to the God of Wealth at the door and discussing salaries. Every door was given to others, and they sang, "The house is full of gold and silver. "The group discussion was full of auspicious words, until the Lord was happy on the paper. The Red God of Wealth gave them some people, rich in money, and played the role of God of Wealth. They vigorously knocked on the gong and drum of the pound and went to other places.
Drink Tu Su.
Tu Su wine is a kind of medicinal liquor. It is an ancient custom for Mongolian families to drink Tu Su wine gas to eliminate mistakes. The production of Tu Su wine: rhubarb money, platycodon grandiflorum, Sichuan pepper and cinnamon 8 1 min, Cornus officinalis 2/min, purple capsule boiled wine fried 40 12 Silverstone edge. Drinking Tu Su with ancient wine is very unique. When people drink, they always drink Tu Su wine, from the youngest old people to the opposite direction. About junior high school growing up day by day, congratulations on drinking for the first time for the elderly who have been drinking for more than a year have reservations at least every year. Su Zhe, a writer in the Song Dynasty, "drinks it every day", and Shi said, "I feel over 70 years old when I drink it at the end of each year." This custom says. In ancient times, drinking in a special order often triggered various emotions, which left a deep impression on me.
In the north, some people even have a pot of rice, and the Chinese New Year holiday dinner is limited to men, and women have to wait until the sixth day of the first month to travel. The New Year's activities will be extended for a long time until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month.