What did you write on New Year's Day?
1. Ancient New Year's Day custom: In ancient China, after harvesting crops, people who worked for one year would prepare abundant food to welcome the spring, that is, "all the food in one year is ripe", commonly known as "Nian". There are records of setting off firecrackers, attending annual meetings and having a reunion dinner in the Song Dynasty.
Lu Yuanming mentioned in Chronological Miscellanies in the Northern Song Dynasty: "On the first day of the New Year, Beijingers eat vegetarian cakes, that is, so-called rice cakes and the like", which shows that people in the capital of Liang will prepare noodles and other foods for the New Year. The custom of New Year's Day gradually took shape.
2. Northern New Year's Day custom: In northern China, the weather is cold in winter, with short days and long nights. Since New Year's Day, idle people have been slaughtering pigs and sheep, sitting cross-legged on the heatable adobe sleeping platform, and chatting at home. They didn't go to work until the fifteenth day of the first month. Due to the cold weather, the diet of New Year's Day in Northeast China is mainly frozen products, pickles and stews. Such as frozen jiaozi, stewed vermicelli with sauerkraut, pickled snow red, etc. They are all essential foods for the Chinese New Year.
Children in Beijing want to eat candied haws in the New Year, which symbolizes the prosperity of the new year. In terms of cultural customs, the temple fair will stage the Northeast Yangko, walking on stilts, and duet. Tianjin is rich in cultural and recreational activities. On New Year's Day in Shandong Province, students offered sacrifices to the statue of Confucius to welcome the next golden year.
The custom of New Year's Day in the south is more elegant than that in the north. In Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, bamboo poles are tied to the grass and lit on the first day of New Year's Day, which is called "green wild silkworm". Shaoxing will entertain guests with "tea bowls" on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and some even put olives and kumquat, which is called "Bao Yuanbao".
In Fujian, the "spring" and "surplus" of Fujian and Yin are the same. When eating during the Spring Festival, red paper flowers should be inserted into the rice, commonly known as "spring rice". Spring rice is a symbol of "more than one year". In Guangdong, on the first day of New Year's Day, the elders will give red envelopes or oranges to the younger generation, which is also a symbol of good luck and surplus in the coming year. Similarly, Yu loves the people and has done many good things for them. Later, people took the day when Yao died and offered sacrifices to heaven and earth as the beginning of the New Year, and called the first day of the first lunar month "New Year's Day" or "New Year's Day".