The National People's Working Committee said that a complete ban on fireworks and firecrackers is illegal, and local governments need to revise the ban on fireworksWhen I was a child, my memories of the year always started with being woken up by the sound of firecrackers and ended after the smoke of the firecrackers cleared.
The smell of fireworks in the air, the sound of people, is the smell of the New Year.
It must be the nature of Chinese to love to be lively.
We never need to dig deeper, why do we want to firecrackers, anyway, it's just fun.
But one day, the sound of firecrackers is gone, the smell of fireworks is gone, and the smell of the New Year is gone.
So, what do firecrackers mean to the Chinese?
It is a cultural symbol and a romance inherited from the ancients.
When Yu Ben (biàn), a native of the Ming Dynasty, read the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Shuo (Yan Gong)'s "Shou Sui", he said with emotion:"I knew that the Tang Dynasty had firecrackers at night, and it had been around for a long time. ”
The night breeze blows drunk and dances, and the court households sing to each other.
Sorrowful before the young, welcome this year.
The peach branch can ward off evil, and the firecrackers are good sleeping.
Singing and dancing stay on this night, still regretting the old year.
This "Keeping the Year" is probably the earliest poem in Tang poetry that records the custom of firecrackers on Chinese New Year's Eve.
Later, Liu Yuxi also made it"Zhaotan out of the old Jiao, firecrackers frightened the ghosts. ”
Firecrackers", also known as "bamboo bursts", "firecrackers", "firecrackers", "firecrackers".
The earliest record of the saying "firecrackers" should be from the book "Jing Chu Years Chronicles", which was written during the Northern and Southern Dynasties.
The author cites the record of burning bamboo knots and shocking ghosts in the "Divine Mystery Sutra" to illustrate the ** of firecracker customs.
The rooster crows and firecrackers in front of the court to ward off evil spirits. ”
As for the term "Year Beast", it is actually a matter of the late Qing Dynasty and modern times.
This shows that at least in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was already a custom of firecrackers.
It's just that at that time, the bamboo was really burned, and the bamboo was heated ** and made a crackling sound.
It was about the rapid development of gunpowder in the Song Dynasty, and paper-based gunpowder firecrackers began to appear.
Therefore, since the Song Dynasty, more poems about firecrackers can be seen.
In the sound of firecrackers, the spring breeze sends warmth into Tusu. ”
The front village and the back village are blazing, and the east and west houses are bursting with firecrackers. ”
The sound of firecrackers flies, Tu Su Xiangdian, and Huatang sings and dances to promote spring. ”
The sound of firecrackers did not sleep. Celebrate the New Year tonight. ”
And "Tokyo Menghualu", "Menglianglu", and "Wulin Old Things" have detailed records of firecrackers and various customs and customs.
Regardless of the size of the family, the Shishu family is sprinkled with sweeping the door, removing the dust, cleaning the household, changing the door god, hanging the clock, nailing the peach charm, pasting the spring card, and sacrificing the ancestors. ”
It is the night ban in the firecracker mountain, and the sound is heard outside. Shishu's house, sitting around the hearth, sleepless".
These all give us a glimpse of how lively the year of the Song Dynasty was.
A thousand years have passed, and one generation has passed, and one generation after another.
When Xu Xiake of the Ming Dynasty visited Jiangxi, it was Chinese New Year's Eve and stayed overnight in the mountains.
Because there was no night"Smell the sound of firecrackers"., so sighed"The loneliness of the mountain country is really another world. ”
What Xu Xiake felt in the mountain village was silence and tranquility, and what he saw was a different scene, but it was definitely lively outside the mountain.